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Transportation Studies at UW
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Upper-Level Undergraduate Courses
CEE 306 Construction Engineering I (3)
Introduction to construction engineering, planning, methods, contracts, and specifications. Scheduling manually and by using computer software. Production estimates; equipment selection; ownership and operating costs; role of the engineer in construction and cost estimating.
CEE 320 Transportation Engineering I (3)
Study of vehicular transportation fundamentals including geometric design, pavement design, traffic flow concepts, level of service analysis, intelligent transportation systems, travel demand prediction methods, and management of transportation systems. Includes a review of relevant vehicle operating characteristics.
Instructor Course Description: Stephen T Muench
CEE 404 Infrastructure Construction (4) Muench
Basic concepts of large infrastructure construction projects including planning, scheduling, life-cycle cost analysis (LLCA), construction cost, logistics, productivity and, where applicable, traffic impacts. Uses currents and prototype industry software and involves direct contact with agency and contractor personnel involved in infrastructure projects. Prerequisite: CEE 306. Offered: spring quarter.
Instructor Course Description: Stephen T Muench
CEE 410 Traffic Engineering Fundamentals (3)
General review of the fundamentals of traffic engineering, including their relationship to transportation operations management and planning, with emphasis on calculations and procedures in the Highway Capacity Manual; field surveys and data analysis. Prerequisite: CEE 320.
CEE 412 Transportation Data Management (3) Wang
Introduction to modern concepts, theories, and tools for transportation data management and analysis. Applications of software tools for transportation data storage, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, data exchange, on-line information sharing, statistical analysis, system optimization, and decision support.
CEE 416 Urban Transportation Planning and Design (3)
Brief review of major issues in urban transportation planning. Planning process discussed and transportation models introduced. Uses a systems framework, including goals and objectives, evaluation, implementation, and monitoring. A design term project, individual or small groups, utilizes material presented on a contemporary problem. Prerequisite: CEE 320. Offered: autumn quarter.
CEE 421 Pavement Design (3)
Current and developing procedures for the structural thickness design of pavements. Bituminous and concrete pavements for highways, airports, and special heavy loading. Elastic layered systems, slab theory. Performance evaluation for maintenance and overlay design. Offered: autumn & spring quarters.
CEE 422 Construction Materials II (4)
Types, sources, uses, performance behavior from construction point of view of aggregates; asphalt products and mixtures; Portland cement, concrete, and other materials the civil engineer is responsible for selecting and manufacturing on job site. Includes laboratory work. Prerequisite: CEE 363. Offered: autumn quarter.
CEE 425 Reinforced Concrete Construction (3) Janssen
Processes in constructing reinforced concrete structures. Identification and development of solutions to potential constructability problems. Lectures augmented with industry speakers and a field trip to a building under construction. Requires senior or graduate standing in Civil Engineering or Construction Management and familiarity with reinforced concrete design/construction.
CEE 441 Transportation and Construction Capstone (4)
Comprehensive design project focusing on planning, design and construction of transportation project such as highways, transit, and airports. Prerequisite: CEE 320; CEE 440, which may be taken concurrently.
CEE 452 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures (3)
Fundamentals of design of buildings in reinforced concrete in accordance with current codes and practices. Prerequisite: CEE 380.
CEE 453 Prestressed Concrete Design (3)
Analysis, design, and construction of prestressed concrete structures.
CEE 498 Special Topics (1-5, max. 5)
Special topics in civil engineering offered as course with lecture and/or laboratory. Maximum of 6 credits in combination of 498 and 499 may be applied toward an undergraduate degree.
Instructor Course Description: Amlan Mukherjee Anne V. Goodchild Stuart E Strand Stephen T Muench Yinhai Wang
CEE 499 Special Projects (1-5, max. 5)
Individual undergraduate research projects. Maximum of 6 credits in combination of 498 and 499 may be applied toward an undergraduate degree. Recommended: 400-level CEE course.
Graduate Level Courses
CEE 579 Advanced Traffic Detection Systems (3) Wang
Introduction to advanced tracking and detection technologies in transportation engineering, including Global Positioning Systems (GPS), inductance loop detection systems, remote traffic microwave radar, computer-vision based technologies, and other emerging detection technologies with cutting-edge research in these areas.
CEE 580 Urban Transportation Planning (4) Rutherford
Introduction to transportation planning, including trends and issues, land use and transportation interaction, surveys, public involvement, demand management, technology, forecasting, impacts, and policy strategies.
CEE 581 Travel Demand Forecasting (4) Rutherford
Application of mathematical models to forecast urban travel behavior. Introduces emerging methods, land use models, travel demand models, including trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and network assignment. Discusses validation and ethics.
CEE 582 Intelligent Transportation Systems (3)
Application of modern computer and communication technologies to transportation systems. Benefits to public agencies, commercial companies, and travelers. Coordination between private and public sectors. Intelligent Transportation System's (ITS) social, organizational, and operational changes.
CEE 583 Airport Engineering (3)
Definitions and terminology relating to airport engineering. Characteristics of aircraft, air traffic control, and resulting impact upon design process. Airport capacity, configuration, and planning associated with terminal design. Emphasis on geometric and structural design of pavements and airside. Design projects relating to airport engineering required. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
CEE 584 Analytical Methods in Transportation I (3)
Application of analytical and statistical methods to transportation planning problems. Analysis of probability distributions that describe variables. Development of statistical models for predicting transportation phenomena. Elementary sampling theory hypothesis testing, regression analysis, time series analysis, applied to transportation data. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Offered: spring quarter.
CEE 585 Analytical Methods in Transportation II (3)
Applications of advanced econometric methods to transportation issues. Topics include, but not limited to, systems of equations, duration models, limited dependent variable approaches, and count models. Hands-on modeling, with numerous data sets, available for application. Collaborative projects. Prerequisite: CEE 584 or permission of instructor.
CEE 587 Transportation Networks (3)
Traffic flow, theories of traffic, user equilibrium and system-optimal assignments, and algorithms used for network assignment. Theoretical and empirical traffic assignments, multivariate characteristics of traffic flow on networks. Interactive work with network and econometric models.
CEE 588 Land Use/Transportation Models (3)
Review of theoretical basis of several existing models used to forecast urban growth patterns and their associated land use, transportation, and energy requirements. Model validation studies in relation to empirical studies of urban growth and change. Environmental implications of alternative urban growth patterns. Offered: jointly with URBDP 530.
CEE 589 Transit Systems Planning (3)
Planning, operational methods for urban public transportation. Review of technological, operating characteristics of vehicles and systems; financing, management, institutional aspects. Paratransit. Short-range planning, operational strategies, revenue-fare structures. Service monitoring. Mode choice, transit demand relating to service. Computer-aided methods for planning, design of transit systems. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor.
CEE 590 Traffic Systems Operations (3)
Operational planning, management of arterial and freeway traffic systems. Review of transportation system management strategies to achieve more efficient use of existing infrastructure, including improved and innovative traffic control systems and demand management policies, measures of effectiveness, impact assessment, traveler response. Introduction to use of relevant computer models and packages.
CEE 591 Freight Transportation (3)
Overview of the technical and institutional aspects of transporting freight. Topics include the different modes of moving freight, the technology of transferring freight between modes at ports and terminals, issues that impact freight movement such as congestion and government regulation, and the future of freight mobility.
Instructor Course Description: Edward D Mccormack
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