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The course will help students, policy makers, practitioners, etc. to understand the role of a traffic engineer in various important dimensions on field and develop innovative strategies to combat various traffic problems. The course will help learners to perceive the knowledge on various traffic parameters, understand various phenomena of traffic flow and congestion, and learn the basics of transportation planning process.
Civil Engineering
Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning
The course will help students, policy makers, practitioners, etc. to understand the role of a traffic engineer in various important dimensions on field and develop innovative strategies to combat various traffic problems. The course will help learners to perceive the knowledge on various traffic parameters, understand various phenomena of traffic flow and congestion, and learn the basics of transportation planning process.
Created by Dr. Malaya Mohanty
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Prerequisite
NIL
NIL
Start Date
20 April 2023
20 April 2023
End Date
16 June 2023
16 June 2023
Level
Beginner
Beginner
Enrollment options
ONLINE and OFFLINE
ONLINE and OFFLINE
Course Description
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes:
- Learners will be able to
- Identify the different aspects of traffic engineering
- Determine traffic RU characteristics at various sections of road
- Perform highway capacity analysis.
- Design traffic facilities and understand about traffic control system
- Explain the concept of transportation planning
- Explain the economic evaluation of transportation plan
Skills you will gain:
Understand various traffic phenomena; relations between various traffic parameters, understand steps of transportation planning, Traffic signaling techniques, Route optimization, Measure traffic congestion and quality of flow, Design alternative transportation systems, parking demand calculations.
Course Content
Course Instructor
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Dr. Malaya Mohanty
Dr. Malaya Mohanty is presently working as Assistant Professor at KIIT Deemed to be University, India. He works in the area of Traffic Engineering, mainly in the field of traffic operations, management, control, and safety. During his masters, he had worked on aspects of traffic safety on hilly roads. Further, different problems experienced by road users while driving through median openings in India under heterogeneous traffic conditions was studied in detail by him during his Ph.D. He is interested in all the aspects of traffic engineering like traffic flow, delay, congestion, safety and its analysis using statistics and validating them with the real field data. He is involved in various consultancy projects in the field of traffic engineering and traffic forecasting.
