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Spring 2006, 4 credits, Prerequisites:
CE491 or Instructor's consent
Tuesday Lecture: 3:10pm~5:50pm,
Owen 320
Thursday Recitation: 1:30pm~3pm, Apperson 312
Instructor: Lei Zhang
Office hours: After each lecture or by email appointment
(lei.zhang@oregonstate.edu)
Text Books
Required:
de Neufville, Richard, 1990, Applied Systems Analysis.
McGraw-Hill, Inc: New York. ISBN 0-07-016372-3 [RN] (available
here)
Sussman, Joseph, 2001, Introduction to Transportation
Systems. Artech House, ISBN 1-58053-141-5 [JS]
Optional:
Garrison, William L., and Levinson, David M., 2005,The
Transportation Experience. Oxford University Press,
USA [GL]
Ortúzar, Juan de Dios, and Willumsen, Luis G., 2001,Modelling
Transport. 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons [OW]
Course Description
The systems approach and its applications to transportation
engineering and planning. The making of transportation
plans and policies. Development of transportation models.
Transportation system performance. Decision analysis.
Evaluation of transportation projects. Environmental and
social impacts of transportation.
Course Outcomes and Objectives
At the end of the course, students will be able to apply
knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to
analyze and solve transportation problem, to analyze and
interpret data and draw useful conclusions, to design
a system or a process to meet desired engineering needs,
to apply the systems approach to model travel demand and
supply, to understand the decision-making process in transportation
planning and policy analysis, to implement cost benefit
analysis for project evaluation and selection, to understand
the impact of transportation engineering and planning
on many global and social issues, and finally to develop
a knowledge of contemporary transportation issues.
Course Content
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| Week |
Topic |
Reading |
Assignment Due |
1
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4/4 Lecture: Introduction
to the Systems Approach
4/6 No recitation this week |
JS 1, 2
RN 1, 10 |
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| 2 |
4/11: Key
characteristics of transportation systems, Systems analysis
methods, Introduction to frameworks and models
4/13: Keneth Small seminar (Bexell 102, paper) |
JS 6~11 |
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| 3 |
4/18: Land
use, Economic activity, and Travel demand model 1
4/20: Gravity model (pdf,
Examples)
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JS 21, 22
Handout 1
Handout 2
LandUseModel
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Homework 1 due at the end of the recitation
(Problem,
Data) |
| 4 |
4/25: Travel
demand model 2: Trip distribution, Mode choice
4/27: Class project: Developing a 20-Year Transportation
Improvement Plan for a Mid-Sized City (Problem,
VISUM
Network File, Traffic
Count Data) |
JS 25
Handout 3 (distributed in class) |
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| 5 |
5/2: Travel
demand model 3: Traffic assignment and network analysis
5/4: Class Project:Travel demand modeling with VISUM
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JS 5, 29, 30
Handout 4 (distributed in class) |
Homework 2 due at the end of the recitation
(Problem,
Solution)
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| 6 |
5/9: Midterm Exam (Solutions);
Transportation
supply, Production and cost functions
5/11: Class Project: Empirical estimation of cost functions
(Data)
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RN 2, 3, 4 |
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| 7 |
5/16: Cost function, Constrained Optmization
(see 5/9 notes)
VISUM workshop Owen 241
5/18: Performance
measures, Economic Evaluation
Class Project References:
1. Oregon Transportation Plan (Summary,
VolumeI,
VolumeII)
2. Portland Metro Reginal Transportation Plan (Link)
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JS 4, 23
RN 13, 14, 16 |
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| 8 |
5/23: Lecture moved to 5/25
5/24: 9:30~12noon, VISUM Workshop#2, Owen 241
5/25: 1:30~2:20pm, Guest Lecture: Corvallis MPO 20-Year
Transportation Plan; Speaker: Ali Bonakdar, AICP, Director,
Corvallis Metropolitan Planning Organization
2:30~3pm, Case Study: Road Pricing and Innovative Financing
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JS 3
Case
1 Reading |
Class project progress report due
on 5/25
(1~2 pages including:
Progress to date;
Project tasks to be completed;
A detailed time table.)
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| 9 |
5/30: Guest Lecture: OSU Transportation
Improvement Plan
Speaker: Ben Stabler, PTV America, Inc.
VISUM Workshop#3: Evaluating alternatives
6/1: Socio-economic and environmental impact of transportation
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Paper on Air Pollution (distributed in
class) |
Homework 3 due at the end of the recitation
(Problem,
Solution)
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| 10 |
6/6: 3:10~4:10pm Multimodal,
freight, public, and active transportation; Case study:
Connect-Oregon
4:20~6pm Class Project Presentation
6/8: No Recitation |
JS 12, 28, 29, 30
Case 2 Readings:
1.
Overview
2.
Laws and Rules
3.
Application list
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Project report due before presentation
(Report
Formatting Requirements) |
| 11 |
Final
Exam, Data.xls
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No reading |
Submit completed exams to Prof. Zhang
in Owen 304 at noon on 6/13 |
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Feedback
You are encouraged to send emails to the instructor about
what you like and dislike about this class at the end
of the term.
This information can help improve the learning experience
for future students. A yahoo.com email account has been
setup with user name "CE591" and passworld "owen320",
which you can use to send feedbacks anonymously.
Evaluation and Grading
Class Participation 10%
Homework 25%
Midterm 15%
Final 25%
Class project reports 15%
Class project presentation 10%
1.Grades will be given on an absolute scale from A to
F. Failure to do the work or cheating of any kind (including
plagiarism) will result in an F for the course.
2. Class participation requires attendance, doing the
readings before class, and participating in class discussion.
Communication is an essential part of becoming a competent
transportation engineer, so participation will be heavily
weighted in this class. Class participation will also
include submitting one possible test question at the end
of each lecture.
3. Homework assignments will be periodically given to
reinforce the examples in your textbooks and in class.
These are practice for the Exams, and so are for your
benefit.
Students with Disabilities
Accommodations are collaborative efforts between students,
faculty and Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD).
Students with accommodations approved through SSD are
responsible for contacting the faculty member in charge
of the course prior to or during the first week of the
term to discuss accommodations. Students who believe they
are eligible for accommodations but who have not yet obtained
approval through SSD should contact SSD immediately at
737-4098.
Policies
Students are advised to see http://oregonstate.edu/admin/stucon/achon.htm
regarding policies on student conduct
Students are also advised to see the following websites
regarding plagiarism:
What is Plagiarism?
http://www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html
Avoiding Plagiarism
http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/resource/wc/AvoidingPlagiarism.html
Plagiarism
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html
Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/plagiary.htm
Tips to Avoid Plagiarism and Cite Sources
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/c-merkel/cite.htm |
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