Transportation Engineering Course

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• Creators:
  Tribelhorn, Maria ; Kyte, Michael
• Corporate Creators:
  National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (NIATT) (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Special Programs Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Operations
  • Traffic estimation
  • Traffic
  • Traffic measurement
  • Traffic data
  • Traffic counts
  • Traffic flow
  • Traffic congestion
  • Intersections
  • Education and training
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  KLK724 ; N12-01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Idaho
• Edition:
  Final report; Aug. 2011-May 2012.
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (NIATT) (U.S.)
• 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.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT07-G-0056
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24941/dot_24941_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1013.07 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e6f0b2d8258d1b5949f9eb4fccf586ec14cb2b41bfc5f99194773b90c27260a2