Civil / PE Exam
Transportation Planning and Engineering Course Syllabus
1. Course Overview
- Socio-economic impacts on transportation, demand modelling
- Characteristics of transportation systems; rail, road, air, water, and pipelines
- Transportation systems in Canada
- Characteristics of traffic flow, queuing theory, capacity analysis, space-time diagrams
- Urban traffic management, traffic signals, pedestrians, accidents
- Intelligent transportation systems
2. Textbooks (latest editions recommended)
- Mannering, F. L. and Washburn, S. S. and Kilareski, W. P. Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis
- Roess, R. P. and Prassas, E. S. and McShane, W. R. Traffic Engineering
- Papacostas, C. S. and Prevedouros, P. D. Transportation Engineering and Planning
- Fricker, J. D. and Whitford, R. K. Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering