Keng Her
This course has provided California's traffic engineers and transportation planners with core training for more than three decades. This unique overview of the many basic transportation concepts are meant to provide young professionals with a comprehensive picture of the dynamics affecting their specialty areas. Contents are regularly updated to reflect current practices and new issues, including the latest Federal and State major standards documents: Highway Design Manual, Highway Capacity Manual, California Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and the latest update to the rules and regulations governing traffic and transportation in the State.
The course spans the full range of key areas from characteristics of the transportation system, analysis of flow and capacity, traffic operations, traffic control devices, pedestrian/bicycle facilities, to traffic safety and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The course is taught by a team of expert practicing professional engineers, whose practice focus on California but also represents best practices throughout the country. Practical applications of the numerous regulatory and guidance documents are brought to the class by the practicing engineers in a friendly and facilitated lectures with plenty of interactive exercises.