The transportation engineering program offers opportunities for study and research in the planning, design, construction, operation, and management of transportation facilities and services. We emphasize systems approach to understand the interactions among transportation services, demand, mobility, socio-economic activities, environment, energy, and the quality of life in the region. We use a variety of techniques, from global positioning and geographic information systems to artificial intelligence, to solve problems in:

• Transportation demand forecasting
• Traffic engineering and controls
• Construction methods and management
• Logistics and freight transportation
• Pavement design and performance
• Intermodal urban transportation systems
• Asset management

The education program maintains close links with the Delaware Center for Transportation and the University Transportation Center.

FACULTY

Nii Attoh-Okine - Pavement design and analysis; pavement materials evaluation; civil infrastructure systems; probability graphical models in pavement engineering; MEMS applications in civil infrastructure systems; application of the Hilbert-Huang Transform
Ardeshir Faghri –Transportation systems engineering; computer methods in transportation and traffic engineering; intelligent transportation systems; transportation in developing countries
Earl “Rusty” Lee –Technologies for collaborative decision making, with particular emphasis on incident and emergency management; advanced traffic engineering; intelligent transportation systems
Sue McNeil – transportation asset management, life-cycle costing, application of advanced technologies, economic analysis, condition assessment and deterioration modeling, decision support

MS REQUIREMENTS

See the MS in Civil Engineering for the general academic requirements. In addition, the Master’s degree in Civil Engineering or Applied Science in the field of Transportation requires four core course and four electives taken from a variety of fields. Electives should be selected based on discussions with your advisor.

Core Courses:

• CIEG 650 Urban Transportation Systems (3 credits)
• 9 credits from one of the following groups (all courses are three credits unless otherwise noted)
  • Group 1 Transportation Planning
    • CIEG 652 Transportation Facilities Design
    • CIEG 654 Urban Transportation Planning
    • ORES 601 or 602 Survey of Operations Research
    • UAPP 601 Measuring and Defining Planning Problems or
    • UAPP 827 Program and Project Evaluation
  • Group 2 Infrastructure and Materials
    • CIEG 621 Soil Mechanics
    • CIEG 652 Transportation Facilities Design
    • CIEG 654 Civil Infrastructure Systems
    • CIEG 667 Pavement Analysis and Design
    • CIEG 667 Resilience Engineering
    • CIEG 667 Sensors
  • Group 3 ITS and Operations
    • CIEG 652 Transportation Facilities Planning and Design
    • CIEG 667 Advanced Traffic Engineering (Workshop)
    • CIEG 667 Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • MATH 630 or 631 Probability Theory

Suggested electives include:

• BUAD 836 Problem Structuring and Analysis for Decision Making
• ECON 801 Microeconomics
• ECON 802 Macroeconomics
• GEOG 667 Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 671 Advanced Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 677 Spatial Analysis
• MAST 663 Decision Tools for Policy Analysis
• MAST 672 Applied Policy Analysis
• ORES 603 Simulation
• STAT 601 Probability Theory for Operations Research and Statistics
• STAT 602 Mathematical Statistics
• STAT 608 Statistical Research Methods
• STAT 609 Regression and Experimental Design
• UAPP 601 Measure and Define Planning Problems (1 credit)
• UAPP 602 Introduction to Comprehensive Planning (1 credit)
• UAPP 603 Introduction to Zoning and Land Use Controls (1 credit)

In addition other CIEG 667 Seminar courses are frequently offered covering topics such as Geometric Design, and Regional Analysis. Each semester students are also expected to register for CIEG865 Section 013 – Civil Engineering Seminar. Students register for credit one semester and as a “Listener” in the other semesters.

PhD REQUIREMENTS

PhD degrees are also offered in the Transportation field. The courses listed above serve as a foundation for the PhD degree. PhD students work with their advisor to develop a program of study that provides appropriate breadth and depth. See the PhD in Civil Engineering for the general academic requirements.