Transportation Engineering Graduate Course Descriptions
TTE 5006: Advanced Urban Transportation Planning (3) Prereq: graduate standing and consent of instructor. Analytical techniques for estimating future travel demands; and for for planning transportation facilities and locations. Review of transportation technology and future systems.
TTE 5256: Traffic Engineering (3) Traffic characteristics, studies and analyses, street operations, level of service analysis, congestion and access management, signs and markings, pedestrians, bicycles, parking, roadway lighting.
TTE 5305: Advanced Transportation Systems Analysis (3) Prereq: TTE 4004. Systems analysis in transportation planning and engineering, including supply, demand, equilibrium, evaluation, and decision analysis.
TTE 6205: Freeway Operations and Simulation (3) Prereq: consent of instructor. Uninterrupted traffic flow theory. Highway capacity analysis. Microscopic simulation. Freeway management and control methods.
TTE 6259: Urban Streets Simulation and Control (3) Prereq: TTE 4201/5256. Principles of simulation modeling and applications. Simulating urban street operations using commercially available packages; traffic signal control and optimization for urban streets; signal control hardware.
TTE 6267: Traffic Flow Theory (3) Prereq: TTE 4201/5256. Vehicle-roadway-infrastructure interactions, equations of motion, and car-following; microscopic and macroscopic traffic characteristics and traffic stream models; simulation, queueing theory, and shockwave analysis.
TTE 6306: Computational Methods in Transportation Engineering(3) Coreq: TTE 5256. Applying numeric methods to traffic engineering/analysis. Key issues in implementing a computational methodology into a software format. Fundamentals of developing simulation software.
TTE 6505: Discrete Choice Analysis (3) Prereq: consent of instructor. Theory and models of individual choice behavior, unordered and ordered multinomial choice models, empirical specifications, maximum likelihood estimation, state-of-the-art methods, travel modeling applications.
TTE 6606: Urban Transportation Models (3) Prereq: TTE 5305 or consent of instructor. Mathematical models for decision making in planning and operations of urban highway and transit systems.