CVE 3601 - Principles of Transportation Engineering

• Explain the terms used in transportation engineering
• Demonstrate the steps required for a roadway development project
• Explain how vehicle and driver characteristics influence the design of various transportation facilities
• Illustrate the procedures for horizontal and vertical road alignments
• Apply traffic flow characteristics, including capacity, speed and safety considerations, to the design of roadways
• Apply signal timing analysis
• Explain the considerations to allow different types of motorized and non-motorized users safely share roadways and the basic concepts of Complete Streets
• Identify the transportation needs of persons with mobility disabilities
• Design a roadway and/or intersection considering horizontal and vertical geometry, speed and safety, capacity, environmental concerns, and the needs of non-motorized roadway users and sustainability

• Basic knowledge of geometry and trigonometry
• Basic knowledge of surveying

• Transportation modes and characteristics
• Road-user, vehicle, and roadway characteristics
• Communicating with drivers - traffic control devices
• Traffic stream characteristics
• The concepts of demand, volume and capacity
• Traffic data collection and reduction methodologies
• Traffic volume studies and characteristics
• Speed, travel time, and delay studies
• Highway traffic safety
• Complete streets
• Sustainability in transportation design