COURSE OVERVIEW

This course will present advanced transportation modeling tools, building upon fundamental material from CEE 123/223 Transportation Systems III: Planning and Forecasting. CEE 225B students will complete selected exercises and will perform a major extension or enhancement to the CEE 123 Miasma Beach exercise.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Pre-requisites
   CEE 123/223 Transportation Systems III: Planning and Forecasting or the equivalent, and sufficient computer familiarity, programming skills, and statistics to complete an advanced travel forecasting project.
   
   
2. Texts
   Ortuzar & Willumsen (2011). Modeling Transport (4th) Wiley (recommended reference).
   
   
3. Exams
   Final Exam: tba (if necessary)
   
   
4. Deliverables/Grading
   The following deliverables (dates tbd):
   1. 40% -- Methodology Lecture Slides (Week 8)
   2. 20% -- Project Presentation: Enhancement/Extension (Weeks 9-10)
   3. 40% -- Feedback & Extension Project Report (due: Friday, 8 June 2018)
   
   
5. Term Projects
   Project: The travel forecasting project is the center piece of this course. The software of choice is TransCAD, a PC-based GIS for transportation that is installed in the Civil Engineering Computer Lab in ECT123 and on PCs in ITS. Individual copies of TransCAD are not available. Projects must be completed independently or, with my approval, in teams of two. There will be informal reports during the quarter, a final presentation at the end of the quarter, and a comprehensive final report due 8 June 2018).

   Methodology Lecture Slides: Each student will develop slides for a 1-hour lecture in the general methodological area of their selected project enhancement/extension.

   All project reports and presentations must be prepared professionally (see guidelines).

6. Web Site
   http://eee.uci.edu/18s/17300/