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Graduate Transportation courses    C E 423, Transportation Operations      Description: To understand the significance and role of traffic operations in planning, designing, and maintaining the highway network. To learn the basic principles of traffic engineering and operations. To learn and use the capacity analysis procedures, and become familiar with the Highway Capacity Manual and the Highway Capacity Software. To apply traffic engineering principles in a traffic impact study. Prerequisite: C E 321. Text: Highway Capacity Manual, Transportation Research Board Special Report 209, 1997. Traffic Engineering, McShane, Roess and Prassas, Prentice-Hall, 1998. TOPICS Introduction to the course Capacity and LOS Analysis Interrupted Flow - Traffic Stream Parameters Unsignalized Intersections Overview Worksheets Applications Impedance factors AWSC Basic Principles of Signalization Signalized Intersections Methodology Volume and Sat. Flow Capacity Delay Left Turns Actuated Control - Detection Signal Coordination Principles Applications and Examples Computer Models Uninterrupted Flow - Introduction Freeway Capacity Analysis - Overview Freeway Segments - Methodology Freeways - Specific Grades and Composite Grades Ramp Junctions Overview Applications and Examples Weaving Segments Overview Applications and Examples The Pennsylvania State University