CVEG 5413 Transportation and Land Development
Course Description:
This course will provide students with insight into the fundamentals of the relationship between transportation and land use, and how this relationship influences the development of metropolitan areas in the US and around the world. This course is divided into four parts. First, it will start with a foundational review of theories and research about the complex relationships among transportation, land use, and urban form, moving on to introducing the related issues of individual and firm travel demand. Building on these foundations, in the second part of the course students will explore the influence of land use and urban form on travel behavior, including historical interest and evidence, relevant theories and analytical approaches, techniques for measuring relevant aspects of urban form, and implications for planning tools and policymaking. The third part of the course presents analysis methods for the various components of the activity system, of which transportation is a single, albeit crucial subsystem – that which ties the region together in both a spatial and a functional sense. The key sub-systems which form the focus of this course are transportation, land use, population, economics, and activity location. A variety of the analytical techniques presented are useful in alternate applications, however, each technique is introduced in the context of the sub-field where it is most utilized. Finally, the fourth part of the course will take a prospective perspective, looking at the implications of the land use-transportation interaction space for metropolitan futures, and our abilities to forecast them.
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CVEG 563V Special Problems: Travel Demand Modeling
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This graduate-level course will provide an in-depth understanding of the theoretical aspects of travel demand. Students will become familiar with the methods of discrete choice analysis and their applications in the modeling of transportation systems. Emphasis will be given to developing a sound understanding of the theoretical aspects of discrete choice modeling that are useful in many applications in travel demand analysis.
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CVEG 563V – 003 Transportation System Characteristics
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This graduate level course will introduce fundamentals of traffic engineering and transportation networks. In the first part, students will become familiar with traffic engineering studies, traffic flow theory, traffic control devices, traffic signals, capacity and level of service analysis of freeways and urban streets. The second part of this course will introduce the basic concepts of transportation network analysis, as well as explore some applications.
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