Roadway Safety Tech & Design.

Catalog description

This course provides teacher candidates with a conceptual overview of the principles of road and highway engineering from a safety perspective. The course is designed to provide a broad, interdisciplinary understanding of the history, laws, institutions, and research methods that guide the approach to road safety (i.e., engineering, highway safety, public health, public policy, research, data and analysis, etc.). The relationship between the design and layout of roads and highways and the characteristics of vehicles, drivers, and pedestrians will be examined. Graduate credit requirements are described in the course syllabus. If this class is taken at the 500 level, it is a graduate course and expectations for student performance are at an advanced level. Evaluation of course requirements is more rigorous than at the lower division section of this course.