This course has provided California's traffic engineers and transportation planners with core training for more than three decades. It's unique overview of the many basic transportation concepts are meant to provide young professionals with a comprehensive picture of the dynamics affecting their specialty areas.

Contents are regularly updated to reflect current practices and new issues, including the latest Federal and State major standards documents: Highway Design Manual, Highway Capacity Manual, California Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and the latest update to the rules and regulations governing traffic and transportation in the State.

The course spans the full range of key areas from characteristics of the transportation system, analysis of flow and capacity, traffic operations, traffic control devices, pedestrian/bicycle facilities, to traffic safety and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The course is taught by a team of expert practicing professional engineers, whose practice focus on California but also represents best practices throughout the country.

Practical applications of the numerous regulatory and guidance documents are brought to the class by the practicing engineers in a friendly and facilitated lectures with plenty of interactive exercises.

Additional course detail is provided in the sections below.

• Course Topics
  • Principles of Traffic Engineering
  • Traffic Stream Characteristics
  • Speed, Volume, Travel Time, Delay Studies
  • Roadway Design
  • Traffic Control Devices
  • Signing, Markings, Roadside Delineation
  • Traffic & Freeway Operations
  • Congestion Management
  • Capacity Analysis
  • Lighting
  • Pedestrian & Bicycle Facilities
  • Neighborhood Traffic Management
  • Traffic Safety Analysis & Practices
  • Intersection & Speed Control
  • Parking Studies
  • Traffic Impact Studies
  • Introduction to Advanced Traffic Management Systems
• Course Outline
  Day 1: Capacity Analysis & Traffic Impacts

   

      Module 1: Training Framework – Need & Purpose

      Module 2: Geometric Design Concepts

      Module 3: Capacity and Level of Service - Concepts

      Module 4: Freeway Capacity

      Module 5: Freeway Operations

      Module 6: Signalized Intersection Capacity

      Module 7: Traffic Impact Studies (TIS) Course Evaluation for the Day

   

  Day 2: Traffic Operations Part I

  Main Streets Concepts, Bike & Pedestrian, IntersectionControl, On-Street Parking

   

      Module 1: Main Street and Complete Streets

      Module 2: Bicycle Considerations

      Module 3: Pedestrian Considerations

      Module 4: Intersection Control and Warrants

      Module 5: Traffic Engineering Data Collection & Use

  (travel time studies, speed surveys, traffic counts, turning movement counts, delay analysis,

  queueing, vehicle occupancy, bicycle counts, pedestrians counts, etc.)

      Module 6: Urban Street Parking

   

  Day 3: Traffic Operations: Part II

  Signing, Striping, Design Concepts, & Traffic Signals

   

      Module 1: Traffic Control Devices & Principles

      Module 2: Traffic Signs and Markings

      Module 3: Roadside Delineation

      Module 4: Intersection Design / Channelization

      Module 5: Traffic Signals and Traffic Signal Systems

   

  Day 4: Traffic Safety Analysis & Practice   

   

      Module 1: Traffic Signal Warrants

      Module 2: Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)– A Brief Overview

      Module 3: Tort Liability – The Public Agency Perspective

      Module 4: Roadside Safety / Reducing Collision

      Module 5: Improving Safety at Railroad Crossings
• What you will learn

  Training participants gain a solid, comprehensive understanding of the basic vocabulary, theoretical principles, and working concepts of all major areas of traffic engineering as they are practiced today.

  Students are also introduced to the essential traffic engineering toolkit used to analyze roadway and traffic operations and to develop projects, and will learn about recent developments in the professional practice of Traffic Engineering in California, including capacity analysis methodologies, legal and societal implications of the practice, safety, professionalism, and how the future currents are affecting the fields.

  While the course content is vast and topics will be introduced, the instructor team is focused on providing the nuances and the bottom line on how it all fits together to broaden the perspectives of training participants.

• Who should attend

  This course benefits engineers, planners, and technicians in private and public sectors who are either in the beginning or the middle of their careers.

  The principles and practices are designed to educate and leave participants with a big picture of the interactions of many specialties in traffic and transportation fields. It should be viewed as the introductory course for other advanced classes on focused topics in traffic engineering.

  This course may also benefit entry-level traffic engineers who may be planning on taking the California Professional Engineering (PE) License Exam in Traffic Engineering, although this course is not a review course for this PE exam. For more assistance in preparing for the Traffic Engineering PE exam for California, please refer to TE-29 California Traffic Engineering License Exam Review.

  The materials in this course are based on the following references:

  • Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering
  • Highway Capacity Manual 6th Ed.
  • Highway Design Manual 6th Ed.
  • Caltrans Standard Plans, 2015 Ed.
  • California Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices 2014, Revision 3
  • SB-743 VMT and related publications
  • ITE Trip Generation Manual, 10th Ed.
  • AASHTO A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 6th Edition
• Course Prerequisites

  [no prerequisites identified]

• Course Instructors

  Rafat Raie, PE, Deputy Director of Public Works, City Traffic Engineer, City of San Rafael

  Mr. Raie has nearly 30 years of Traffic Engineering experience including design, operation, planning, and maintenance. As an instructor with ITS Tech Transfer for the past nine years, he has shared his professional experience in pedestrian facility design and operations in communities throughout California. He has a well-rounded experience in traffic signal systems, parking systems, innovative pedestrian facilities, and ADA standards.

  Crystal Killian, PE, Transportation Engineer, City of Los Angeles

  Ms. Killian is a Professional Civil Engineer and a Traffic Engineer with more than 20 years of transportation engineering experience with the City of Los Angeles in the Department of Transportation. She has been involved in programs for parking, special events, emergency response, liability management, neighborhood traffic calming, school safety and pedestrian safety.

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