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PUBLISHED 2021-2022 Credit Catalog 
    
PUBLISHED 2021-2022 Credit Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CIVL 353 - Transportation Engineering


Course Description:
The fundamentals of transportation engineering includes transportation planning, forecasting traffic flows, determining highway capacity, level of service and roadside environment design. The design and drafting of new highways includes horizontal and vertical alignments and cross section design including all necessary calculations. The design and drafting of rehabilitated highways includes traffic staging, pavement design, removals and new construction. The efficient use of the Civil 3D software is necessary to design roadways and produce documentation including drawings and calculations.

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s):
  • One of:
    • CIVL 255
    • CIVL 201

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