Discussion/Tutorial Session 002D, 003D
Fall 2020
Purpose
Tutorial sessions will facilitate your study as a complement and extension to lectures, through contents reinforcement, problem solving practices, cutting-edge research and real-world engineering cases. The tutorials will also lead you going through two projects of this class- traffic simulation project and geometric design project.
If you have any concerns, questions, recommendations, or comments, don’t hesitate to contact:
Instructor: Norman Garrick norman.garrick@gmail.com
TA: Sadia Sharmin sadia.sharmin@uconn.edu; Ge Shi ge.shi@uconn.edu
Tutorials Time & Links:
002D Th 11:00am‑11:50am:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m8800791ec4f1ca465ee01c7affb70cd0
003D Th 2:00pm‑2:50pm:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=mc3b9cd45e943d81b1c206af239594153
Online Office Hours:
Fri. 3:00pm‑ 4:00pm. Access by https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/ges19002. Usually the Office hour will be one-to-one format. (room will be blocked if someone is already in the conversation with me. But you may send me a notice to me while waiting in my Personal Room lobby of WebEx.)
Tutorial Topics and Schedule:
Topic 1:Transportation Simulation
• Tutorials: Week 1-4
• Related Lectures: Lecture 1, Lecture 13-17
• Learning objective:
o Learn the importance of traffic simulation as a way of facilitating the plan, design, and operation in transportation system.
o Learn the basic theories and methods under the simulation software.
o Learn the steps of building a simulation and analyzing results in SUMO.
o Finally, you will be assigned a group project with some small subtasks to apply simulation technology into real-world examples.
• Project Deadline: Traffic Simulation Project
o Task1: Install SUMO- Sep. 17th by the end of day
o Task2: Network Build based on Open Street Map- Sep. 24th by the end of day
o Task3: Simulation of Unionville Elementary and analyze the outputs- Nov. 5th by the end of day
Week 1(Sep. 3): Slide: Class Intro/transportation simulation; Ref of Interest: Garrick: What Does This Street In Zürich Mean?
Week 2(Sep. 10): Slide: SUMO Network; Project Tutorial: SUMO 1 9-10
Week 3(Sep. 17): Project Summary; Project Tutorial: SUMO 2 9-17
Week 4(Sep. 24): Project group work day and troubleshooting
Topic 2: Transportation Planning
• Tutorials: Week 5-7
• Related Lectures: Lecture 4-9, Lecture 12
• Learning objective:
o Understand the principles of effective transportation planning and the relationship between land use and transportation.
o Understand the four-step transportation planning process; Apply the four-step model in practice problems.
Week 5(Oct. 1): Slide: Four-Step-Model I; Practice: Problems; Solutions
Week 6(Oct. 8): Divided Highways Cont.
Week 7(Oct. 15): Slide: Four-Step-Model II; Practice: Problems
Topic 3: Traffic Flow and Highway Capacity
• Tutorials: Week 8-9
• Related Lectures: Lecture 13-18
• Learning objective:
o Learn the impact of highway system on American cities.
o Understand the basics of traffic flow theory and shockwaves & time-Space Diagrams.
o Know different types of traffic data and definitions.
o Understand Capacity and LOS for highway segment.
Week 8(Oct. 22): Slide: Basics of Traffic Flow Theory
Week 9(Oct. 29): Slide: Kinematic Wave Theory
Topic 4: Urban Street Design
• Tutorials: Week 10-13
• Related Lectures: Lecture 19-26
• Learning objective:
o Understand the vertical and horizontal components of geometric design.
o Understand how to design a basic roadway and its corresponding principles.
o Understand the design characteristics in urban context.
• Project Deadline: Nature Lodge design project- Dec. 7th by the end of day.
Week 10(Nov. 5): Slide: Horizontal Alignment
Week 11(Nov. 12): Slide: Vertical Alignment
Week 12(Nov. 19): Slide: Nature Lodge Project
Week 13(Dec. 3): Slide: Nature Lodge Project Cont.
Transportation Courses beyond CE 2710:
At UConn, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering provides a number of transportation related courses which are built upon the basic contents in CE 2710. If you are interested in transportation and would like to dig into greater depth, check this list (as of August, 2020):
Undergraduate Courses:
CE4210. Operations Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering
CE4410. Computer Aided Site Design
CE4900W & CE4920W Civil Engineering Projects I and II
Mixed Undergraduate/Graduate Courses:
CE4710/CE5710. Case Studies in Transportation Engineering: Analysis of case studies in transportation and urban planning and design. Application of transportation engineering and planning skills. Oral and written group reports, group discussions, individual written papers.
CE4720/CE5720. Street and Highway Design: History of street and highway design; land-use context, street design data collection and analysis, speed, safety and street network characterization; pedestrian and bikers in design, cross-section and alignment design.
CE4730/CE5730. Transportation Planning: Transportation economics, urban transportation planning process, evaluation of transportation improvements, transportation systems management.
CE4740/CE5740. Traffic Engineering I: Traffic flow characteristics; traffic control devices; traffic signs and markings; traffic data collection; traffic signal timing and operation; capacity of streets, intersections, and highways; traffic impact studies; traffic simulation.
Graduate Courses:
CE5725. Transportation Safety
CE5735. Public Transportation Systems
CE6725. Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis: Application of various statistical methods for analysis of transportation data, including linear regression, count data models, logistic regression, discrete outcome models, ordered probability models, random parameter models, and duration models among others.
CE6730. Travel Demand Forecasting
CE6735. Transportation Network Analysis
CE6740. Traffic Engineering Operations
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