to solve new problems that arise.” Previous studies, however, have revealed a decrease in the hourly requirements of transportation-related courses offered for undergraduate students (3, 4), and entry-level engineers lack significant exposure to transportation engineering methodologies (3). To solve this problem, the transportation engineering curriculum, both in its content and teaching method...

1Faculty of Engineering, Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Dynamics and Vibrations, University of Mons, Place du Parc 20, 7000 Mons, Belgium 2Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure & Society, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK 3Laboratory of Transportation Environmental Acoustics (LTEA), School of the Civil Engineering, Transpor...

Close to 500 persons, including government officials, transit system operators, city planners, car builders, suppliers, and consultants, came to Boston Aug. 28-31 for a "National Conference on Light Rail Transit." Although the size of the crowd was evidence of light rail's growing popularity (RA, Aug. 8, p. 36), the conference also heard warnings about trends that could hamper the growth of lig...

S computers are used by transportation consultants to aid in a wide variety of engineering and planning analyses. In fact, a number of software packages are being marketed for general-purpose project management, not limited to transportation consulting.l ,2,” However, transportation consultants have their own project management needs. Their projects cover a wide range of budget sizes, schedule ...

Resilience has been discussed in ecology for over forty years. While some aspects of resilience have received attention in transport planning, there is no unified definition of resilience in transportation. To define resilience in transportation, I trace back to the origin of resilience in ecology with a view of revealing the essence of resilience thinking and its relevance to transport plannin...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2374, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2013, pp. 102–110. DOI: 10.3141/2374-12 Rail Transportation and Engineering Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 205 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801. Correspondi...

Traditionally, transportation engineering students have used engineering drawing techniques to manually lay out lines and curves over contour maps for highway geometric design. The design process requires numerous calculations of stopping sight distance, minimum turning radius, and curve alignments to minimize economic and environmental impact and construction costs. Students usually perform it...