Transportation Engineering: Highway Capacity

Duration: 2hrs

Highway accidents result in thousands of deaths a year. Knowing how highway capacity analysis is used in the design of safe and efficient roadway facilities is essential to the health safety and welfare of the general population.

This interactive online course will teach you about the fundamental concepts of highway capacity analysis. You will learn about transportation system elements, types of roadway facilities, design vehicles, the concept of level-of-service, traffic volume parameters, and speed parameters and how they are relevant in analyzing the capacity of roadway facilities.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the fundamental concepts of highway capacity and how they are applied in the design of safe and efficient roadways, and in the evaluation of existing roadway facilities.
• Identify transportation system elements, the structure of transportation systems, and the types of roadway facilities.
• Describe the underlying assumptions and base conditions in highway capacity analysis methods that are used to analyze the capacity of various types of roadway facilities.
• Describe simplified highway capacity analysis methods, as well as software products that have been developed to assist roadway engineers