Description | Recommended courses
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Description
Transportation has always played an essential role in the development of society, originally with regard to trade routes and harbours, but more recently with regard to land- and air-based systems as well. It is the transportation engineer's responsibility to plan, design, build, operate and maintain these systems of transport, in such a way as to provide for the safe, efficient and convenient movement of people and goods.
Increasing environmental concerns have revived an interest in the development and management of public transportation systems. Professional activities can range from road and transit design and operation at the urban scale, to railroad, seaway and airport location, construction and operation at the regional and national scale. Transportation engineering in North America focuses on automobile infrastructures, although it also encompasses sea, air and rail systems.
Automobile infrastructures can be split into the traditional area of highway design and planning, and the rapidly growing area of traffic control systems. The transportation engineer faces the challenge of developing both network links and major terminals to satisfy transportation demands, with due regard for the resultant land-use, environmental and other impacts of these facilities.
Employment opportunities are available both in the public sector (e.g., federal and provincial government transportation ministries, regional and municipal roads, traffic and transit agencies) and the private sector (e.g., engineering consultants, trucking, railroad and airline companies, vehicle manufacturing). The undergraduate core and technical complementary program provide for a solid grounding in transportation engineering sufficient for related professional employment.
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Recommended courses
In order to achieve a specialization in the area of Transportation Engineering at the undergraduate level, the following courses are:
- Strongly recommended:
CIVE 440
Traffic Engineering&Simulation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: Driver, vehicle and traffic flow characteristics; origin-destination studies, traffic studies and analysis, queuing theory applications, microsimulation, highway design and capacity analysis, non-motorized facility design, HOV lane design, public transportation priority design, parking analysis, traffic signal design and control, traffic microsimulation with HCS, VISSIM and SYNCHRO.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 319 (a D grade is acceptable for prerequisite purposes)
- Recommended:
CIVE 433
Course not available
CIVE 446
Construction Engineering
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: Project management principles; construction equipment economics, selection, operation; characteristics of building, heavy, marine, underground and route construction projects; international projects.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
CIVE 540
Urban Transportation Planning
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: Process and techniques of urban transportation engineering and planning, including demand analysis framework, data collection procedures, travel demand modelling and forecasting, and cost-effectiveness framework for evaluation of project and system alternatives.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 319 or permission of instructor.
CIVE 560
Transportation Safety & Design
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: Fundamental concepts on transportation safety, traffic data collection techniques, crash database management, statistical methods for safety analysis, network screening methods, evaluation and design of treatments, railway safety analysis, surrogate safety methods, intersection safety and engineering countermeasures, non-motorized safety and facilities designs and accident severity analysis.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
CIVE 561
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: Greenhouse gas inventories at various scales from national to institutional. Emission estimation methods including field measurements and engineering calculations for anthropogenic sources including fossil fuel combustion from transportation and energy production, cement production, hydroelectric reservoirs, oil and gas systems, landfills, wastewater treatment and sewer systems, and agriculture. Technical and policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Group project.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Students are expected to have a background in data mining, statistical analysis, e.g. spatiotemporal analysis, and chemistry. WHMIS and other lab training is recommended.
- Prerequisite(s): CIVE 225 and CIVE 302 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
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