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 Graduate Studies Academic Calendar
Spring 2009

Civil and Environmental Engineering


Research Areas

Transportation Engineering
 

The major areas of study include:

  • traffic engineering
  • pavement management systems
  • public transit
  • transportation planning
  • transport systems analysis
  • transport economics
  • transportation safety and risk analysis

each of which can be studied in the urban, inter-urban and/or rural contexts.

Current research activities include:

  • investigations of the operation of traffic signal systems
  • modelling integrated freeway-arterial networks
  • priority in traffic
  • pavement design
  • management of pavement systems
  • urban models
  • transit demand and management
  • economics of transport
  • road accident analysis
  • intersection controls and safety
  • highway-railway at grade crossing collision reduction
  • environmental transport models
  • quantitative risk assessment for transporting dangerous goods


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