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TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | |||
Why should you study transportation? Are you interested in:
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 PSU Transportation Faculty: John Gliebe (USP), C. Monsere (CEE), T. Rufolo (USP), J. Dill (USP), R. Bertini (CEE/USP), J. Strathman (USP), G. Mildner (USP). |
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If
so, you should consider becoming a transportation professional. Transportation
is a growing profession with opportunities for people with a wide variety
of backgrounds and strengths. There are currently
six graduate-level degrees within which students can specialize in
transportation:
Our students are both full- and part-time. About Transportation at PSU Transportation education and research at PSU focuses on transportation systems, infrastructure, policy, and planning. We cover all modes of transport and the relationships and interactions of transportation systems with land use, the economy, the environment, institutions, and people. Our programs are multidisciplinary. Faculty conduct research on a wide range of topics, including: transit operations; relationships between urban form, travel behavior and health; intelligent transportation systems; safety; transportation finance; transportation and environmental planning; and land use planning and transportation infrastructure.Dual Master's Degree Program The Center for Transportation Studies is developing a dual master's degree program in Urban and Regional Planning and Civil and Environmental Engineering. Students may currently obtain a second master's degree using the Dual Degree option. Click for more information. What would I do with one of these degrees? Graduates with masters degrees (MURP or MSCE) work in a variety of places, including cities, counties, state agencies, private consultants, and non-profit organizations. You can browse some profiles of current students and alumni by following these links:
Graduates of PSU's
degree programs include:
What opportunities are there during my degree program outside of the classroom?
Students in the
MURP program participate the Planning
Workshop, where they work in small teams to develop and complete
a project for a community client of their choice. Recent transportation-related
projects included a guidebook for wildlife crossings and transportation
facilities, a plan for creating a safe bicycle route in Southeast Portland,
a feasibility study and guide for a new bicycle rail-trail, and a plan
for a shuttle for Sherwood, OR.
MURP students also
have an option to complete a Field Area
Paper, which can be a research paper or project on a transportation
topic. Recent transportation FAPs include:
Students in the MSCE program are responsible for preparing either a Project Report or Thesis, and this research is connected to projects conducted in the ITS Lab, which involve strong partnerships with local, regional and statewide transportation agencies including the City of Portland, Metro, TriMet and the Oregon Department of Transportation. Graduate Certificate in Transportation The
Center for Transportation Studies offers a campuswide graduate certificate
program in Transportation.
What
if I'm not interested in a degree program right now?
There are several
opportunities to attend seminars and classes:
Email
Lists
Transportation
Seminar Series: free
and open to the public
 The
Center for Transportation Studies, in cooperation with the Center for
Urban Studies, School of Urban Studies and Planning and Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, offers a Transportation Seminar Series.
The seminars are presented each Friday during the academic year in the
Distance Learning Center. Students, transportation professionals and community
members are welcome to participate in person and via live streaming video.
Remote participants are invited to submit questions by email during the
seminars, and all seminars are archived in streaming video format for
future viewing. We have seen some substantial growth in the on-line access
of our archived seminars, as shown in this chart.
PSU students may enroll in the seminar for one unit.
Transportation
Short Courses and Workshops
The Center for Transportation Studies will be sponsoring lifelong learning opportunities through short courses and workshops. Current
Courses
Here is a listing of transportation related courses offered through the School of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Non-degree students can enroll in up to 8 units of PSU courses via Quick Entry. USP/CE 407/507 Transportation Seminar (1 credit hour) Weekly seminar series where students, faculty, practitioners, community members and invited visitors discuss a wide variety of subjects related to current transportation research, education, policy and community issues. For credit, students must either present a seminar or submit a paper summarizing one seminar topic area.
USP 465/565 Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning (3 credit hours)
USP 537/637 Economics of urban Transportation (3 credit hours) The transportation system is critical to the functioning of an urban area. The movement of people and goods affects both the productivity and livability of the region. Transportation systems also affect and are affected by land use and location decisions. This course presents the economic analysis of urbantransportation. This will include analysis of the effects of transportation systems on land use and location as well as the evaluation of transportation investments. These methods will then be applied to evaluation of various proposals to improve the urban transportation system. Recommended prerequisite: USP 515 or 615. USP 543 Geography Applications in Planning (4 credit hours) Principles and models of spatial organization, behavior, and location in geographic space. Major conceptual models of urban structure and form, urban regional hierarchy, transportation flows and other forms of spatial interaction, and their applications to modern planning and other disciplines. Spatial data models (rasters, TINs, LRSs, other) and advanced analytical and modeling capabilities of GIS (surface, 3-D, and network analyses). Discussion of real-life GIS applications to transportation, land use, environmental planning, community development, and related areas. USP 544 Urban Transportation Planning (3 credit hours) Principles of urban transportation planning. Urban transportation problems and policy formation. Techniques used in transportation planning. USP 570/670 Transportation and Land Use (3 credit hours) An analysis of transportation and land use interactions in urban areas. The impact of highway and transit changes on travel behavior and locational decisions are examined. Prerequisites: USP 515 and 544. USP 587 Travel Demand Modeling (3 credit hours)
CE 351 Transportation Systems (4 credit hours) A study of engineering problems associated with the planning and design of urban and intercity transportation with emphasis on systems approach to problems definition and solution. Vehicle operation characteristics and traffic control devices for land, air, and water, data collection methods and development of transportation models for the establishment of design criteria for transportation structures. Prerequisite: junior standing in engineering. CE 407/507 Benefit-Cost Analysis for Transportation Engineering Seminar (1 credit hour) Public investment in transportation infrastructure is significant – nearly $64 billion dollars was spent by all levels of government on capital outlays for highway projects alone. It is imperative that investment be made in an economical manner. This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the concepts. Students desiring a more complete consideration of the topic should consider USP 537. CE 410/510 Traffic Engineering Applications (3 credit hours) Advanced theory and application of traffic signal timing in urban settings. Basic theories are presented and applied to real-world problems with the aid of traffic signal evaluation methodologies. CE 410/510 Transportation Data Analysis (4 credit hours) CE 410/510 Geometric Design Transportation Facilities (4 credit hours) Alignment considerations, simple curves, compound and reverse curves, parabolic curves, spiral curves, earthworks, curve problems in highway and railroad design, horizontal and vertical alignment, stopping and passing sight distances, widening on curves, superelevation runoff, highway design and safety, accommodating public transport, design consistency, and contextual design. CE 410/510 Context Sensitive Design of Transportation Facilities (4 credit hours) Transportation design issues, primarily highway, as they relate to the context of place, environment, performance, and multimodal systems. Emphasis on the project development, public involvement, and design process. Discussions include history of standards development, design for safety performance, and design decision making. Legal and tort implications of design. Course includes preliminary design project for a transportation facility CE 410/510 Computer Aided Highway Design (4 credit hours) CE 450/550 Transportation Safety Analysis (4 credit hours) Incorporating safety in highway engineering and transportation planning. Includes highway design, operation, and maintenance, as well as human factors, statistical analysis, traffic control and public policy. Design concepts of intersections, interchanges, signals, signs and pavement markings; analyzing data sets for recommendations and prioritization; principles of driver and vehicle characteristics in relation to the roadway. CE 451/551 Traffic Control and Analysis (4 credit hours) Traffic control principles; maintenance and responsibility for traffic control devices; choice of traffic control; signs, markings and signals; low-volume roads, temporary control and school areas; traffic control for highway-rail grade crossing, bicycles and transit; warrants for control; control techniques and analysis, advanced technologies. Prerequisite: CE 351. CE 453/553 Freight Transportation and Logistics (4 credit hours) Components and performance characteristics of the U.S. freight transportation system, with emphasis on data needs, planning, design and operation of the entire supply chain. Discussion of impact of freight on passenger transportation system and economy. Modal emphasis includes freight rail, motor freight, ocean freight and air freight. Terminal operations. Roles of public and private actors in freight system. CE 454 Urban Transportation Systems (4 credit hours) Urban street patterns and transportation demand, highway capacity analysis, process of urban transport planning, travel-demand forecasting and its application to traffic studies. Development of transport models, multiple regression analysis, models of land use and trip generations, stochastic trip distribution models, applications and case studies. Route assignment analysis and traffic flow theory. Prerequisite: CE 351. CE 455/555 Intelligent Transportation Systems (4 credit hours) Introduction to intelligent transportation systems, including enabling surveillance, navigation, communications, and computer technologies. Application of technologies for monitoring, analysis, evaluation, and prediction of transportation system performance. Intervention strategies, costs and benefits, safety, human factors, institutional issues, and case studies. CE 456/556 Traffic Engineering (4 credit hours) Traffic system components, traffic stream characteristics, traffic studies and data collection, volume studies, speed, travel-time, delay and pedestrian studies, capacity analysis, freeway systems, weaving sections, ramp junctions, rural highways, signalized and unsignalized intersections, signal coordination, arterial operations, and access management. Prerequisite: CE 454. CE 457/557 Pavement Design (4 credit hours) Pavement structure classification and components, wheel loads and design fac0tors, stresses in flexible pavements, subgrade strength and evaluation, design methods, material characteristics, stresses in rigid pavements, design of concrete pavements, joints and reinforcement, condition surveys. Prerequisite: CE 351. CE 458/558 Public Transportation Systems (4 credit hours) Performance characteristics of public transportation systems, with emphasis on urban systems. Planning, design, and operational issues related to public transportation systems. Emerging technologies. CE 459/559 Transportation Operations (4 credit hours) Operation, modeling and control of unscheduled and scheduled transportation modes; elementary traffic flow concepts; flow, density and speed; scheduling; route and bottleneck capacities; networks; data interpretation; analysis techniques: diagrams; simulation; queuing; optimization. CE 460/560 Access Management (4 credit hours) Access management issues; geometric design, roadway operation and access; safety and other benefits; access design concepts; functional integrity of highway; driveway and intersection spacing; functional area of intersection, turn lanes; median openings; access. CE 552/662 Highway Design for Capacity (4 credit hours) Principles of highway capacity, traffic characteristics, operational analysis, design and planning of freeways, multi-lane and two-lane rural highways, intersections and arterials, transit facilities. Prerequisite: CE 454. |
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PSU
faculty are involved in a variety of transportation research projects
and often hire students as graduate research assistants, including a
stipend and tuition remission. See Dr. Bertini's list of positions available
in the