Transportation Policy and Planning

C&EE 180. Introduction to Transportation Engineering. (4)
Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. General characteristics of transportation systems, including streets and highways, rail, transit, air, and water. Capacity considerations including time-space diagrams and queueing. Components of transportation system design, including horizontal and vertical alignment, cross sections, earthwork, drainage, and pavements. Letter grading. (Patrick Gibson)

C&EE 181. Traffic Engineering Systems: Operations and Control. (4)
Lecture, four hours; fieldwork/laboratory, two hours; outside study, six hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Applications of traffic flow theories; data collection and analyses; intersection capacity analyses; simulation models; traffic signal design; signal timing design, implementation, and performance evaluation; Intelligent Transportation Systems concept, architecture, and integration. Letter grading. (Patrick Gibson)

UP M206B. Advanced Geographic Information Systems. (4)
(Same as Public Policy M224B.) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, four hours. Requisite: course M206A or Public Policy M224A. Principles and skills of geographic analysis and modeling; managing, processing, and interpreting spatial data. Especially useful for students interested in environmental, demographic, suitability, and transportation-related research. Scripts (Avenue), modeling (Spatial Analyst), network analysis, and transportation modeling (TransCAD). Letter grading. (Leobardo Estrada, Paul Ong, Rui Wang)

UP 219. Special Topics in the Built Environment. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Topics in the built environment selected by faculty members. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

UP 252. Parking, Transportation, and Land Use. (4)
Parking is key link between transportation and land use, but this link has been widely misunderstood. Transportation engineers typically assume that free parking will simply be there at end of most trips, while urban planners treat parking as transportation issue that engineers must study. As result, no profession is intellectually responsible for parking, and everyone seems to assume that someone else does hard thinking. Mistakes in planning for parking help explain why planning for transportation and land use has in many ways gone slowly, subtly, and incrementally wrong. Study of theory and practice of planning for parking. Examination of how planning for parking in the U.S. has become planning for free parking. Exploration of new ways to improve planning for parking, transportation, and land use. (Donald Shoup)

UP M254. Transportation, Land Use, and Urban Form. (4)
(Same as Public Policy M220.) Lecture, three hours. Historical evolution of urban form and transportation systems, intrametropolitan location theory, recent trends in urban form, spatial mismatch hypothesis, jobs/housing balance, transportation in the strong central city and polycentric city, neotraditional town planning debate, rail transit and urban form. Letter grading. (Brian Taylor, Randall Crane)

UP M255. Transportation Planning. (4)
(Formerly numbered 255.) (Same as Policy Studies M244.) Lecture, three hours. Examination of how planners analyze, manage, and operate transportation systems. Measuring system performance, intelligent transportation systems, transportation system demand management, parking management, freight movement and facilities, public transit evaluation and management, paratransit, bicycle and pedestrian planning, transportation for elderly and disabled. Letter grading. (Brian Taylor)

UP M256. Travel Behavior Analysis. (4)
(Same as Policy Studies M221.) Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 207 and 220B, or Policy Studies 201 and 203. Descriptions of travel patterns in metropolitan areas, recent trends and projections into the future, overview of travel forecasting methods, trip generation, trip distribution, mode split traffic assignment, critique of traditional travel forecasting methods and new approaches to travel behavior analysis. Letter grading. (Brian Taylor)

UP M257. Transportation Economics, Finance, and Policy. (4)
(Same as Policy Studies M222.) Lecture, three hours. Overview of transportation finance and economics; concepts of efficiency and equity in transportation finance; historical evolution of highway and transit finance; current issues in highway finance; private participation in road finance, toll roads, road costs and cost allocation, truck charges, congestion pricing; current issues in transit finance; transit fare and subsidy policies, contracting and privatization of transit services. Letter grading. (Brian Taylor)

UP M258. Transportation and Environmental Issues. (4)
(Same as Policy Studies M223.) Lecture, three hours. Regulatory structure linking transportation, air quality, and energy issues, chemistry of air pollution, overview of transportation-related approaches to air quality enhancement; new car tailpipe standards; vehicle inspection and maintenance issues; transportation demand management and transportation control measures; alternative fuels and electric vehicles; corporate average fuel economy and global warming issues; growth of automobile worldwide fleet; the automobile in the sustainability debate. Letter grading. (Randall Crane, Rui Wang).

UP 259. Transportation and Economic Development. (4)
Examination of equity questions associated with urban transportation. Complex relationships among urban spatial structure, transportation (travel patterns and transportation investments), and economic outcomes. Provides students with understanding of role of transportation in improving economic outcomes for low-income and minority households and communities. (Evelyn Blumenberg)