SYEN 4322 - Modeling Transportation Systems

Three hours lecture. Three credit hours.

The objectives of transportation analysis are defined to include mobility provision, consequence identification and selection of courses of action. A set of methodologies has evolved to exclusively address transport modeling, including demand forecasting, technology representation, network-flow, and multi-attribute assessment of performance. This course reviews very powerful tools to analyze such a class of technological and socioeconomic problems, characterized by the explicit recognition of a spatial dimension. Dual listed in the Graduate Catalog as SYEN 5322.

Prerequisites: SYEN 3312 or equivalent, SYEN 3314 or equivalent, or Consent of instructor.