CivE 719B

Sustainable and Resilient Transportation


Description

The course will provide an introduction and overview of transportation sustainability, resilience, and equity, including their connections to engineering design, policy, and land use. The sustainability section of the class will survey a variety of strategies used to reduce the impact of transportation on climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation. Topics will include: public transit, shared mobility, walking, cycling, intelligent transportation systems, freight/logistics, and pricing. The resilience section of the class will focus on strategies to safely protect infrastructure and populations from hazards (both natural and man-made). Topics will include: resilient infrastructure, street design, community design, evacuations, transportation responses in disasters, and recovery mechanisms. The course will focus on written and oral communication, prepare transportation engineers for a diverse range of professions, and encourage the adoption of emerging and innovative engineering strategies and ideas.

Learning Outcomes

Gain an understanding of fundamental principles and methods of GIS/RS
Familiarize with current issues pertaining to the application of GIS/RS
Learn and apply spatial statistical methods to solve various transportation-related problems involving regionalized (random) variables
Develop spatial interpolation models (e.g., kriging) to predict unknown values and their estimation uncertainty
Solve common network problems using shortest distance and route, location-allocation, closest facility, service areas and accessibility analyses via computerized techniques and GIS software
Expand functional knowledge and operations of Esri’s ArcGIS for solving real-world engineering problems

Lecture Seminar Lab Credits Total AU
3 0/1 0/1 3 37.8
M % NS % CS % ES % ED %

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Undergraduate Program(s)


Sections & Respective Instructors

B1 - 2024/2025 - Winter - Stephen Wong
B1 - 2023/2024 - Winter - Stephen Wong
B1 - 2022/2023 - Winter - Stephen Wong
B1 - 2020/2021 - Winter - Karim El-Basyouny