Essential Traffic Control

Catalog description

Traffic Control design for roadways and intersections. The history, design, and implementation of traffic control devices including markings, signs, signals, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Layout of text and pictograms for signs. Timing of static and actuated traffic signals, sensor placement, and intersection geometry. ITS components including fiber and wireless communication, cameras and monitors, and operational protocols. Efficient and automated toll collection methods. Two lectures (One on campus, one remote). Prerequisite: CIVL 202 . Corequisite: CIVL 412 .