An intro course on transportation engineering covering a wide aspect of topics. The course emphasizes problem solving over pure theory. Calculations are fairly simple while comprehension is more challenging.

Traffic Analysis: loop detectors, traffic flow, time-mean speed, space-mean speed, traffic density, time headway, vehicular spacing, speed-density model, flow-density model, speed-flow model, vehicle arrival pattern, Poisson distribution, Queuing Theory, D/D/1 queuing, M/D/1 queuing, M/M/1 queuing, M/M/N queuing Freeway Capacity and Level of Service: LOS rating, base conditions, free-flow speed, analysis flow rate, ramp density, vehicular composition, speed-flow curve Multilane Capacity and LOS: highways vs. freeways, base conditions, free-flow speed, medians, analysis flow rate, directional design-hour volume, annual average daily traffic, K-factor, directional distribution factor Two-Lane Highway Capacity LOS: 2-lane highway characteristics, base conditions, 2-lane highway classificat...read more

The professor is quite nice and explains well. He's friendly and accommodating to student needs.

Assignments are representative of exams so make sure to do them well.