Advanced Roadway Geometric Design
This is the third of three courses in the TRANSPEED Roadway Geometric Design series.
The other courses in this series are Roadway Geometric Design 1: Basic Concepts and Principles and Roadway Geometric Design 2: Applications, Methods and Good Practice.
Course Faculty: Bob Layton and Vergil Stover
This course presents advanced topics to further develop the practitioner's skills and knowledge in roadway design. The design of the modern roadway system is a complex business that presents the transportation engineer with many challenges. A practitioner must consider design controls and criteria which go well beyond the basic application of standards. The cost of construction, the price of real estate, increasing traffic volumes, mixtures and sizes of vehicles, and environmental considerations are all part of the challenges the roadway designer faces on a daily basis.
This three-day course covers advanced topics in design for street, road, and highway geometric design. Discussions will cover recent policies and manuals, in particular the 2001 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) policy on geometric design.
Intersection design criteria, controls, and standards are included as classroom topics and exercises. Freeway and interchange design to accommodate auto and transit are addressed. The emphasis in this course is on the latest research, practice and acceptable approaches for meeting today's design challenges.
To learn how to bring this course to your organization, please contact us at 206-685-8936.
Course Topics
- Sight distance update
- Designing for trucks
- Intersection sight distance
- Intersection design
- Channelization
- Left and right turn lane design
- Traffic islands and medians
- Freeway system design
- Interchange design
- Intersecting roadway location/layout
- Ramp terminal design
- HOV lane design
- Interchange access management
Who Should Attend
State, local agency, and private sector design supervisors, designers and/or prospective designers with and without experience will benefit from this short course.
Continuing Education 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.