This course has been discontinued
Good highways are so interwoven with every phase of our daily activities that it is almost impossible to imagine what life would be like without them.We depend on highways for the movement of goods, for travel to and from work, for services, for social and recreational purposes, and for many other activities necessary to the functioning of our complex society. The planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of highways depend largely on the efforts of the highway engineer, who must translate the desires of the people for better highway transportation into physical being.
This is the second course in the Highway Engineering course series. This
6-hour interactive online course covers highway administration, planning and evaluations. The course kicks off with a close look at the Federal Highway Administration and its organization. It covers the Federal-Aid Program, the Federal Lands Highway Program, State Highway and Transportation Departments, and Highway financing. The section on planning describes the basic characteristics of transportation planning and of the models that are used by planners. It presents the basic elements of the transportation planning process and describes the data collection techniques that provide important input into technical approaches toward transportation planning. You''ll discuss the different steps of the modeling process and the information they provide to the planning process. This section wraps up with a look at the evaluation concepts that provide the linkage between technical analysis activities and the ultimate selection of a preferred course of action. The course winds down with an examination of the techniques and procedures used for evaluating new highway systems and improvements to existing systems.