College of Chemistry Course Guide

CIVE 155 - Transportation Systems Engineering (3 Units)

(Taken from the UC Berkeley Course Guide)

Course Overview

Summary

Operation, management, control, design, and evaluation of passenger and freight transportation systems. Their economic role. Demand analysis. Overall logistical structure. Performance models and modeling techniques: time-space diagrams, queuing theory, network analysis, and simulation. Design of control strategies for simple systems. Feedback effects. Paradoxes. Transportation impact modeling; noise; air pollution. Multi-criteria evaluation and decision making. Financing and politics.

Prerequisites

Sophomore standing in engineering or consent of instructor

Spring only

Workload

Time Commitment

2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week.




UC Berkeley Course Guide