FALL 2008
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INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Alexander Drakopoulos
Associate Professor
Office: Room 263
Phone: 288-5430 (voice mail available 24 hours)
e-mail: Alexander.Drakopoulos@Marquette.Edu
Web page: www.eng.mu.edu/~drakopoa/
Mailbox #17 (General Engineering Office–Room 201 Olin Engineering)
OFFICE HOURS:
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 1:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Available many more hours by appointment (call, e-mail or stop-by the office)
TEXT:
1. "Highway Capacity Manual, 2000" (U.S. Customary Units), Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. , 2000.
2. William R. McShane, Roger P. Roess, Elena S. Prassas, “Traffic Engineering,” Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 3rd edition, January 2004, Prenice Hall.
3. “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices,” 2003 Edition, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, ATSSA/ITE/AASHTO, ISBN: 0-935403-81-7
4. Others as distributed.
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Tuesday and Thursday 9:35 am - 10:50 am, Room EN 170.
MAKE-UP OF FINAL GRADE:
Test............................................. 15%
Final Exam ................................ 20%
Projects....................................... 55%
Homework* ............................... 10%
*Homework and Project grades will be partially based on the professional quality of completed work, which includes neatness, legibility, clarity and timeliness.
TEST and FINAL EXAMINATION:
There will be one test during the semester and a final examination during finals week (see class dates).
Tentative test date: Tuesday, October 7.
ABSENCE POLICY:
That of the College of Engineering.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
To provide an understanding of the basic characteristics on uninterrupted and interrupted traffic flow, and traffic operations of freeway and signalized intersections. To provide hands-on experience with: the Highway Capacity Manual; the Highway Capacity Software; data collection, data analysis, report-writing and oral presentation of capacity; safety and signalization recommendations for an existing signalized intersection. To provide students with feedback from practicing traffic engineers.
COURSE PROJECTS:
Team projects consisting of intersection evaluation and design involving an actual intersection within Milwaukee, addressing:
1. Volume counts and condition diagram
2. Delay study
3. Accident analysis
4. Capacity analysis
5. Written recommendations for improvement
6. Oral Presentation
Four inter-connected projects lead the student team through data gathering, report writing and oral presentation of findings.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
Periodic homework problems will be given. Computer-aided traffic analysis will be required.
GRADUATE CREDIT
Graduate students will be assigned additional readings and/or problems and/or papers, worth 20% of the class grade. Class grade will consist of 15% Test, 20% Final exam, 45% Projects, 20% Graduate assignments.
PLAGIARISM/ACADEMIC DISHONESTY:
Student papers should represent original work by the paper’s author. Copying passages verbatim from sources is not acceptable, except for short, appropriately indicated passages that are necessary to make a point in a paper. Software may be used to detect plagiarism. A plagiarized paper will receive a zero grade–other consequences may also apply according to College of Engineering and University guidelines.
For a more comprehensive coverage of the topic, please visit:
http://www.marquette.edu/academics/regulations/acaddishonesty.html
Also:
Academic Dishonesty topic in the College of Engineering Faculty Advising Handbook 2008-2009
GRADING SCALE:
A = 100 - 93
AB = 92 - 88
B = 87 - 83
BC = 82 - 78
C = 77 - 73
CD = 72 - 66
D = 65 - 60
F = Below 60