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CE 355 - Introduction to Transportation Engineering

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

 

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Syllabus

 

 

 

Class text is:  Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis by Mannering, Washburn, and Kilareski.  Other material may be provided.

 

Updated March 23, 2009

 

Week of

Topic

Reading Assignment

Homework

 January 12

Intro to transportation

 

 

 

 

January 19

Monday no class:  MLK Holiday

 

Background

 

Text:  chapter 1

 

Class notes

 

January 26

Driver/Roadway characteristics

 

 

 

Class notes

 

 

 

February 2

Vehicle Characteristics

Text:  chapter 2

Class notes

From text

2.1

2.31 (show work)

2.28

2.29

Due Wed February 11h at beginning of class

10% off for each class period beyond due date

 

February 9

Traffic engineering studies

Chapter 4 from Garber and Hoel—This was a handout

 

February 16

Basic statistics in transportation

 

 

LOS capacity analysis—LOS is on test # 2

handout

 

do not need to read section on parking studies

 

HW 2

Data sheet

 

Solutions to HW 2

February 23

Finish up LOS and review test on  Monday

 

Exam I on Wed

Text, chapter 6:  pages 175-195

 

March 2

Intersection control

MUTCD

 

Basics of signal timing

 

Reading below and handout

 

handout on MUTCD

 

Mannering: pages:  227-250, 252-257, 265-268

 

Traffic signal timing handout

 

HW #3

From Mannering, Washburn, and Kilareski

 

Due Monday March 23rd in class or in my box in CCEE

 

Problem 6.1

 

Problem 6.9

 

March 9

Basics of signal timing

Overview of Synchro

 

Chapter and MUTCD

 

Synchro

 handout

 

HW 4

 

Part 1 is due Monday March 30

 

Part 2 is due Wed April 8

March 16

ISU Spring Break

 

 

March 23

Transportation air quality

AQ  handout

 

 

March 30

Review for test

Wed:  Exam II

 

 

 

April 6

M:

Climate

change

 

W: Trans

Planning

 

Climate Change 101: Science and Impacts, Pew Center Center on Global Climate Change.  January 2009. http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/Climate101-Science-Jan09.pdf  (assigned reading for lecture)

 

Other resources:  (not assigned)

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

 

Clearinghouse on transportation and climate change

http://climate.dot.gov/

 

Climate change lecture notes

 

 

Download (consider not printing) Primer on transportation and climate change.  AASHTO.  April 2008. http://downloads.transportation.org/ClimateChange.pdf

 

Chapter 4 (How do we get there from here)

1) List all strategies to reduce GHG emissions (this section deals with transportation solutions)

2) Identify the 2 strategies that you think are the most promising/feasible and 2 strategies that you think are the least promising/feasible

3) Briefly summarize why you think each of the above is the most/least feasible

 

Due Wed April 15 at beginning of class

April 13

Trans planning

Chapter 8

 

Class notes

 

April 20

Trans planning

Traffic impact studies

 

 

TIS handout

Homework 6

Due Friday May 1st by noon in my box in CCEE.

 

For this assignment, no late homework will be accepted.  Otherwise I will not be able to get them graded by the end of the semester.

 

Homework sheet

 

Trip generation sheets

April 27

Traffic safety

 

 

May 4

Week  of :   Final exam

Monday May 4 from 9:45 to 11:45 am,