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Nov 23, 2024
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CVE 5671 - 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. Topics include foundations of traffic safety, human behavior and road safety, measuring safety, solving safety problems, implementing road safety efforts and conducting traffic safety analyses.
Prereq: CVE 3611 (quarter system prereq: CV 3320)
Note: This course is open to qualified undergraduate students.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss and explain terms used in traffic safety and their definitions
- Evaluate the importance and complexity of safety data
- Identify roadway safety issues
- Produce condition and collision diagrams
- Analyze traffic safety data and select appropriate countermeasures
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Road safety
- Multidisciplinary approaches
- Road users
- Human behavior
- Safety data
- Condition diagrams
- Crash diagrams
- Safety countermeasures
- Road safety management
- Site-level safety management
- System-level safety management
- Road safety research
Coordinator
Dr. Mitzi M. Dobersek, P.E.
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