Basic Highway Capacity Analysis For Engineers and Planners
December 2-4, 2008
Seattle
This is the first of two courses in the TRANSPEED highway capacity series that combine to provide comprehensive insights into all aspects of capacity and level-of-service analyses for highway, transit, pedestrian, and bicycle facilities.
The second course in this series is Advanced Highway Capacity Analysis for Engineers and Planners.
Course Faculty: Bob Layton and Wayne Kittelson
In this three-day course you will gain a basic understanding of fundamental concepts underlying the analysis methods in the 2000 edition of the Highway Capacity Manual. Upon completion of the course, you should be able to successfully undertake basic facility evaluations, and should also be able to appropriately review and interpret the results of analyses conducted by others. You will work with a team to solve sample problems and will discuss solutions in a classroom setting. The course has been completely updated to reflect the contents of HCM2000, the most recent edition of the Highway Capacity Manual.
Course Topics
- Traffic stream characteristics
- Traffic flow theory
- Traffic operations and level-of-service concepts
- Basic freeway segments capacity analysis
- Ramp junctions
- Weaving sections
- Multilane highway capacity analysis
- Two-lane two-way highways
- Pedestrian and bicycle facilities
- Urban streets
- Signalized and unsignalized intersections
To learn how to bring this course to your organization, please contact us at 206-685-8936.
Who Should Attend
This course is appropriate for transportation planners, designers, administrators, policy makers and traffic engineering personnel who have not been formally introduced to highway capacity analysis techniques. It will also serve as a useful refresher for those who only apply highway capacity analysis techniques on an occasional basis. Those attending this course will benefit from the thorough review of fundamentals, information on the newest revisions to the Highway Capacity Manual, and the team problem solving workshop format.
Continuing Educations Units and Professional Development Hours
Course participants will earn 2.1 CEUs/21 PDHs upon successful completion of this course. The CEU is a nationally recognized measure of participation in a noncredit continuing education program that meets established criteria for increasing knowledge and competency.