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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

Start Date

20 April 2023

End Date

16 June 2023

Level

Beginner

Enrollment options

ONLINE and OFFLINE 

Course Description

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.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes:

  1.  Learners will be able to
  2. Identify the different aspects of traffic engineering
  3. Determine traffic RU characteristics at various sections of road
  4. Perform highway capacity analysis.
  5. Design traffic facilities and understand about traffic control system
  6. Explain the concept of transportation planning
  7. 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

Dr.  Malaya Mohanty

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.

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