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Creators:
Tribelhorn, Maria ; Kyte, Michael
Tribelhorn, Maria ; Kyte, Michael Less -
Corporate Creators:
National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (U.S.)
Corporate Contributors:
United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Special Programs Administration
Subject/TRT Terms:
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Education And Training
Operations
Traffic
Curricula
Education
Intersections
Traffic Congestion
Traffic Counts
Traffic Data
Traffic Estimation
Traffic Flow
Traffic Measurement

Publication/ Report Number:
KLK724 ; N12-01
KLK724 ; N12-01 Less -
Resource Type:
Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:
Idaho
Edition:
Final report; Aug. 2011-May 2012.
Corporate Publisher:
National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (U.S.)
NTL Classification:
NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS ; NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-Traffic Flow ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Education ;
Abstract:
The goal of this work was to develop activity-based learning materials for the introductory transportation engineering course

with the purpose of increasing student understanding and concept retention. These materials were to cover intersection

operations from a multimodal transportation approach. The initial framework was to create a set of 4 activities, the first

activity focused solely on automobile transportation, and the subsequent activities adding one additional transportation

mode each. For the final work, the existing sequence of material in the textbook was used for activity development. The

final work included the development of a handout for Dr. Kyte’s critical movement analysis method, a queuing systems

field lab, a pedestrian and bicycle level of service lab, and a transit level of service lab. The lab activities provided an active

learning experience, two focusing on non-auto modes. These activities facilitated a fundamental and broad understanding of

core concepts in transportation engineering. This work has provided me with a better perspective on instruction of this topic

and with specific future goals, including better integration of multimodal transportation into the existing curriculum,

addressing issues in the textbook, and fine-tuning the work that was previously completed.


Format:
PDF
Funding:
DTRT07-G-0056
Collection(s):
US Transportation Collection
University Transportation Centers
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