CE 372: Learning goals
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[edit] Potential Course Learning Objectives
1. Relate highway design standards to driver and vehicle characteristics
2. Design safe and efficient highways
3. Determine the social, economic, and environmental impacts of a highway improvement project
4. Compare highway alignment alternatives based on construction costs, safety, efficiency, economic impacts, social impacts, and environmental impacts
5. Estimate freeway basic section performance in time and space, given capacity and demand volumes
6. Evaluate intersection performance for two-way stop, four-way stop, and signal control
7. Improve intersection performance by redesigning two-way stop intersection
8. Improve intersection performance by redesigning four-way stop intersection
9. Improve intersection performance by redesigning signalized intersection
10. Select the most beneficial set of improvement projects, given budget constraints, economic forecast, social impacts, and political environment
11. Design a corridor transit system to alleviate freeway and arterial congestion
12. Assess the benefits and costs of a bus and rail transit system
13. Assess impact fees for a major single use development
14. Assess impacts of demand growth on the performance of existing and proposed infrastructure performance
15. Explain reasons for transportation system demand patterns
