Advanced Transportation Seminar

Catalog description

This course will cover advanced topics in transportation planning and systems analysis. Through the lens of air transportation, rail transportation, logistics, and safety, students will learn and engage in concepts in economics and behavioral modeling, operations research, statistics, environmental planning, and human factors that are used in transportation systems. Topics will include airport and intercity multimodal planning, transportation-environmental planning, network design and reliability, disaster recovery and recovery from irregular operations, scheduled transportation operations, economics, fuel, transportation sustainability, and land use issues related to transportation systems. The course will emphasize learning through lessons, guest lecturers, case studies and an individual group and research project.