Planning, design, and operation of transportation systems with emphasis in multimodal transportation techniques and unified system engineering theories to analyze large-scale transportation problems. Discussion of Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) and hands-on experience in computer models in transportation operations and planning. Interactions between transportation infrastructure and environmental engineering planning.

• Model vehicle acceleration and deceleration behavior and estimate the distance required to accelerate and decelerate.
• Design the geometric vertical and horizontal alignment of highways.
• Design flexible and rigid pavements using the AASHTO procedures.
• Estimate different traffic stream parameters (flow, density, and speed) and estimate queues at roadway bottlenecks.
• Estimate freeway, multi-lane highway, and two-way highway levels of service.
• Design and evaluate traffic signal timing parameters.
• Forecast traffic volumes for the design of transportation facilities using projection techniques.

• Montasir Abbas
• Bryan J. Katz
• Kathleen L. Hancock
• Hesham A. Rakha
• Susan Hotle
• Antonio A. Trani