CE 352 Section 1: Operations

Date

lecture 

readings from text

beg. pp.

end pp.

#pgs

TOPIC

Jan 12/13 

Lab 1

Town 178

 

 

 

Intro., term project, statistics and interpretations 

Jan 14

1

all of chapter 1

3

33

31

Introduction; Please scan the website, esp. "A Survey of Career Opportunities in Transportation Engineering"

Jan 16

2

all of chapter 2

35

61

27

Government role in transport

Jan 19/20 

 

no lab!

 

 

 

No lab!

Jan 21

3

all of chapter 3

62

80

19

Administration and finance (guest)

Jan 23

4

section 4-1

83

84

2

Transport technology

 

"

sections 4-3 to 4-6

88

92

5

Hwy. vehicle characteristics

 

"

sections 6-13 to 6-16

198

209

12

Driver characteristics

Jan 26/27

Lab 2

Town 178

 

 

 

Studies and queuing theory

Jan 28

5

sections 5-1 to 5-11

136

147

12

Hwy. traffic control devices (guest)

Jan 30

6

section 8-12

280

291

12

Highway capacity studies

 

"

section 13-1

444

447

4

Number of lanes

 

"

section 12-6

405

409

5

Traffic and hwy. design

Feb 2/3

Lab 3

Town 134

 

 

 

Highway capacity

CE 352 Section 2: Design

Date

lecture 

readings from text

beg. pp.

end pp.

#pgs

TOPIC

Feb 4

7

sections 12-9 and 12-10, selected sections of CE 211 lab manual

411

413

3

Circular curves, deflection angles, curve setup

Feb 6

8

CE 211 text*, pp. 549-551

549*

551*

3

Spiral curves

Feb 9/10

Lab 4

Town 178

 

 

 

Spiral Calculations and Project Assistance

Feb 11

Exam 1

covers material through February 3rd

 

 

 

 

Feb 13

9

section 5-20 to end of chapter 5

152

173

22

Rail & air traffic control

Feb 16/17

 

Town 134

 

 

 

MapInfo Tutorial

Feb 18

10

4-22 to end of 4

120

132

13

Rail equipment

 

"

section 12-21( note: mistake in book, p. 435, section 12-20 should be 12-21)

435

442

8

Rail vertical alignment

Feb 20

11

sections 12-1 to 12-2

399

401

3

Road and rail location

 

"

section 12-4

403

403

1

Intro. to geometric design

 

"

sections 12-7 to 12-19 note: mistake in book, p. 414, section 12-2 should be 12-12

409

427

19

Rail design, alignment, curves

Feb 23/24

Lab 5

Town 134

 

 

 

Rail design project

Feb 25

12

       

Winter maintenance (guest)

Feb 27

13

sections 13-14 to 13-20

456

469

15

Rail cross section

 

"

section 13-25 to end of ch. 13 

478

485

8

Rail intersections

Mar 2/3

Lab 5

Town 134

 

 

 

Rail design project (cont.)

Mar 4

14

all of chapter 17

593

617

25

Airport planning and layout

Mar 6

15

all of chapter 18, 

620

642

23

Airport terminal design 

Mar 9/10

Lab 5

Town 134

 

 

 

Rail design project (cont.)

Mar 11

16

sections 19-1 to 19-6

643

657

15

Airport design

Mar 13

17

sections 4-16 to 4-21

111

119

9

Waterborne vessels

CE 352 Section 3: Planning

Date

Lect 

readings from text

beg. pp.

end pp.

#pgs

TOPIC

SPRING BREAK, Mar 16-20

Mar 23/24

 

Town 134

 

 

 

Airport Design (Rail Design due)

Mar 25

Exam 2

covers material through March 13th

 

 

 

 

Mar 27

18

sections 7-1 to 7-11

221

236

16

Transportation planning & TSM

 

"

sections 8-7 to 8-8

264

277

14

Urban trans. Development & inventories 

Mar 30/31

Lab 6

Town 134

 

 

 

Airport design (cont.)

Apr 1

19

sections 10-1 to 10-2

344

346

3

Plan selection factors 

 

"

sections 10-3 to 10-8 

346

361

16

B/C analysis

Apr 3

20

sections 9-1 to 9-7

312

320

9

Modeling: introduction

 

"

sections 9-1 to 9-7

312

320

9

Modeling: trip generation

Apr 6/7

Lab 7

Town 134

 

 

 

Trip generation/regression

Apr 8

21

sections 9-8 to 9-11

320

327

8

Modeling: trip distribution

Apr 10

22

sections 11-1 to 11-5

378

390

13

Traffic impact analysis (guest)

Apr 13/14

Lab 8

Town 134

 

 

 

Gravity model - QRSII,traffic assignment - QRSII

Apr 15

23

sections 9-15 to end of 9

331

341

11

Modeling: traffic assignment

 

"

sections 9-12 to 9-14

328

331

4

Modeling: mode split

Apr 17

24

 

 

 

 

Global positioning systems

Apr 20/21

Lab 9

Town 134

 

 

 

QRS continued

Apr 22

25

 

 

 

 

GIS for transportation modeling

Apr 24

26

 

 

 

 

Project planning

Apr 27/28

 

CE352 drag races at Drivers Education Lot (13th and Stange)

 

 

 

 

Apr 29

27

sections 4-2 to 4-3

85

88

4

Energy and the environment

May 1

28

 

 

 

 

Layout spirals, Section 2 only

FINAL EXAM May 6, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM (Tentative)