Multimodal Roadway Safety

Catalog description

This is an introduction to the fundamentals of roadway safety. At the end of this course students will be able to define nominal and substantive roadway safety. The students are expected to comprehend and explain network screening and countermeasure selection methods. Students are expected to apply highway safety manual procedures to propose safety improvement alternatives and to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed alternatives. Other topics covered in the course include statistical applications in roadway safety, pedestrian and cyclist safety, conflict studies and crash surrogates.