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May 30, 2024
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CV 6300 - Traffic Safety3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of road safety. Students will develop a detailed understanding of road safety issues, human behavior, and identifying and solving road safety problems. (prereq: CV 3320 or basic knowledge of traffic engineering. Graduate standing or senior standing with consent of graduate program director or department chair.)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of the terms used in traffic safety and their definitions
- Understand the importance and complexity of safety data
- Determine roadway safety issues
- Develop condition and collision diagrams and models
- Conduct traffic safety analyses and generate appropriate countermeasures
Prerequisites by Topic
- Basic knowledge of traffic engineering
Course Topics
- Foundations of traffic safety
- Human behavior and road safety
- Measuring safety
- Solving safety problems
- Implementing road safety efforts
- Conduction traffic safety analyses
Coordinator
Dr. Mitzi Dobersek
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