SHORT PRESENTATION ON POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEPARTMENT

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SHORT PRESENTATION ON POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO
DEPARTMENT
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My current and recent courses

• CE3201 Introduction to Transportation
  Engineering
• CE5212 Transportation Policy, Planning, and
  Deployment
• CE5214 Transportation Systems Analysis
• CE8214 Transportation Economics
• PA8202 Networks and Places Transportation and
  Land Use

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Contribute to a number of MSc courses at CTS

• Core Units
• T1 TRANSPORT AND ITS CONTEXT
• T2 QUANTITATIVE METHODS
• T3 TRANSPORT ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS
• T4 TRANSPORT ECONOMICS
• T5 TRANSPORT DEMAND AND ITS MODELLING
• T6 TRANSPORT POLICY

Optional Units T8 ROAD TRAFFIC THEORY AND ITS
APPLICATION T9 PUBLIC TRANSPORT T10 TRANSPORT
SAFETY T11 QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSPORT
ENGINEERING AND PLANNING T13 TRANSPORT
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT MANAGEMENT T14 ADVANCED
TRANSPORT MODELLING T15 UNDERSTANDING AND
MODELLING TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR T16 TRANSPORT AND THE
ENVIRONMENT T17 TRANSPORT TELEMATICS T18 RAILWAY
POLICY, MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING T19 DESIGN OF
ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS T20 FREIGHT
TRANSPORT T21 ASSET MANAGEMENT, PROJECT PLANNING
AND MAINTENANCE T22 DESIGN OF ROADS, RAIL,
BRIDGES, TUNNELS AND EMBANKMENTS T23 AIR TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT
And develop others
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Initiatives Undergraduate Education

• ITSO - Interdisciplinary Transportation Student
  Organization
• STREET project Simulating Transportation for
  Realistic Engineering Education and Training.
  (supported by NSF, Digital Media Center, ITS
  Institute)

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STREET Curriculum Objectives

• To develop and refine a suite of web-based
  simulation modules that can be easily
  incorporated in the undergraduate transportation
  courses.
• The simulation-based teaching material will
  become an active textbook, which offers an
  interactive learning environment to students.

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STREET Components

• ROAD Roadway Online Application for Design
• ADAM Agent-based Demand and Assignment Model
• SOFT Simulation of Freeway Traffic
• SONG Simulator of Network Growth
• OASIS Online Application of Signalized
  Intersection Simulation
• wikibook Fundamentals of Transportation

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ROAD

• To provide students with a web-based design tool
  that they can perform roadway geometry design
  from a broader perspective.
• To better understand roadway geometry design
  process and its challenges.
• To enrich students learning experience in
  roadway geometry design.

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• To support the learning of the transportation
  network development process
• Allow users to adjust different parameters and
  test the effects of these factors on the
  resulting network forms
• Allow students to visualize speeds or volumes on
  network links represented by different colors and
  thickness of the links.

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OASIS
To help students better understand actuated
signal control logic. To enrich students
learning experience in intersection signal timing
and control.
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STREET Simulating Transportation for Realistic
Engineering Education and Training

• 500,000 NSF Grant (PIs Liu, Levinson)
• http//street.umn.edu

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Research Ongoing (Networks, Economics, and Urban
Systems Group)

• BRIDGE Behavioral Response to the I-35W
  Disruption Gauging Equilibration (National
  Science Foundation) (Liu, Levinson, Harder)
• Traffic Flow and Road User Impacts of the
  Collapse of the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi
  River (MnDOT) (Levinson, Liu, Harder)
• Value of Reliability (Oregon Transportation
  Research and Education Consortium) (Levinson,
  Harder)
• Value Capture Project (Mn Legislature) (Levinson,
  Zhao, Lari)
• Access to Destinations Measuring Accessibility
  by Automobile. (MnDOT) (Levinson)
• The role of Social Networks and Information and
  Communications Technology on Destination Choice.
  (Techplan/ITS Institute) (Levinson)

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Thank you.

• Questions?