Graduate Courses
Below is a list of courses from the UNL Graduate Studies Bulletin in the area of Transportation Study.
Development of urban transportation planning objectives and goals. Data collection procedures, land use and travel forecasting techniques, trip generation, trip distribution, modal choice analyses, and traffic assignment. Site development and traffic impact analysis.
862. Airport Planning and Design (3 cr) Prereq: CIVE 361.Planning and design of general aviation and air-carrier airports. Landside components include vehicle ground access systems, vehicle circulation parking, and terminal buildings. Airside components include aircraft apron-gate area, taxiway system, runway system, and air traffic control facilities and airspace. Emphasis on design projects.
863. Highway Geometrics (3 cr) Prereq: CIVE 361.Principles of highway geometrics. Sight distance, design vehicles, vehicle characteristics, horizontal and vertical alignment, cross section elements, at-grade intersections, and interchanges.
864. Traffic Characteristics (3 cr) Prereq: CIVE 361 and MATH 380.Principles of traffic engineering, control and operation of highway transportation facilities. Intersection and arterial street capacity, pretimed and actuated signals, and signal coordination. Driver and pedestrian characteristics.
865. Traffic Engineering Laboratory (1 cr) Lab 3. Prereq:CIVE 361 and STAT 880.Traffic engineering experiments and field studies used to measure traffic characteristics and driver/pedestrian behavior. Measurements of traffic flow, speed, density, travel time, delay, platoon dispersion, saturation flow, parking characteristics, and traffic conflicts. Perception-reaction time and gap acceptance measurements.
Community growth and development based on planning decisions regarding land use whereby transportation facilities are fitted to land use. Economic studies consider the consequences to transportation agencies, users, and nonusers. Agency expenditures include capital outlay and annual expenses for maintenance and operations. User consequences include items such as vehicle operating costs; commercial time costs; accident costs; discomfort and inconvenience costs; and assignment of money valuations to pleasure, recreation, and culture. Nonusers consequences include items such as cost reductions or increases in public services; increases in value of crops and natural resources where areas become more readily accessible; changes in business and industrial activities; and increase or decrease of residential property values.
867. Transportation Safety Engineering (3 cr) Prereq: Permission.Safety criteria in the planning, design, and operation phases of highway, rail, airport, mass transit, pipeline, and waterway transportation systems. Background of safety legislation and funding requirements. Identification of high accident locations and methods to determine cost/effectiveness of improvements.
870. Analysis and Estimation of Transportation Demand (3 cr) Prereq: Permission.Introduction to conceptual, methodological and mathematical foundations of analysis and design of transportation services; review of probabilistic modeling; application of discrete choice models to demand analysis.
Operations research techniques for modeling system performance and design of transportation services; routing and scheduling problems, network equilibration and partially distributed queuing systems.
872. Application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Transportation (3 cr)GIS structure, functions and concepts such as spatial data models, relational databases and spatial analyses. GIS project planning, management and applications to transportation related issues.
885. Computer-aided Interchange Design (3 cr) Lec 1, lab 1. Prereq: CIVE 460.Principles of high-speed traffic operations, safety, and decision making, related to critical design parameters used for optimal interchange geometric designs. Development of an interchange design project using graphical and civil engineering software.
961. Mass Transit Systems (3 cr) Prereq: Permission.The place of mass transit in solving urban transportation problems: transit system and terminal characteristics and planning criteria. Speed, capacity, accessibility, and operation of mass transit systems. Future prospects in transit technology and case studies of existing systems.
964. Theory of Traffic Flow (3 cr) Prereq: At least 1 sem probability and statistics, CIVE 864 or permission.Analysis of traffic characteristics applied to traffic engineering facility design and flow optimization. Capacity of expressways, ramps, weaving sections, and intersections. Analytical approaches to flow analysis, queuing theory, flow density relationships, and traffic simulation.
965. Traffic Control Systems (3 cr) Prereq: CIVE 864 or equivalent.Principles of traffic control. Design and analysis of intersection, arterial street, network, and freeway control systems. Traffic surveillance and driver information systems.
