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Classes relevant to the field of transportation offered at UCLA:
Transportation Engineering Classes
CEE180. Introduction to Transportation Engineering
General characteristics of transportation systems, including streets and highways, rail, transit, air, and water. Capacity considerations, including planning, design, and operations. Components of roadway design, including horizontal and vertical alignment, cross sections, and pavements.
CEE181. Traffic Engineering Systems: Operations and Control
Applications of traffic flow theories; data collection and analyses; intersection capacity analyses; simulation models; traffic signal design; signal timing design, implementation, and performance evaluation; Intelligent Transportation Systems concept, architecture, and integration.
C185. Transportation Systems Analysis
Transportation researchers and practitioners are motivated by desire to explain spatial interactions that resulted in movement of people or goods from place to place. Such interactions become more intricate as new technologies emerge. To explore and perceive these intricate interactions, understanding of essential nature of transportation systems to analyze and optimally design such systems is needed more than ever. Introduction to fundamental concepts, methods, and principles underlying transportation systems analysis. Includes two modules, each of which focuses on one level of system analysis: traveler behavior and network.
C186. Intelligent Transportation Systems
Introduction to basic elements of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), focusing on technological, systems, and institutional aspects. Topics include systems engineering processes, advanced traveler information systems, transportation network operations, commercial vehicle operations and intermodal freight, public transportation applications, ITS and regional strategic transportation planning, travel demand management, electronic toll collection, and road-pricing, connected and automated vehicles (CAV), data access and exchanges, cybersecurity for ITS, and other smart mobility technologies.
Urban Planning Classes
URBN PL 120. Introduction to Cities and Planning (Undergraduate)
Survey of urban history and evolution in U.S., urban social theory, current growth trends, system of cities, urban economy and economic restructuring, traditional and alternative location theories, urban transportation, and residential location and segregation
URBN PL 121. Urban Planning and Policy (Undergraduate)
Examination of current urban planning and policy issues and debates, such as normative theories of good urban form, metropolitan organization and governance, economic development and growth management, edge cities, spatial mismatch hypothesis, urban poverty, racial/ethnic inequality, gender and urban structure, sustainability, and future of cities
URBN PL M206B. Advanced Geographic Information Systems (Graduate)
Principles and skills of geographic analysis and modeling; managing, processing, and interpreting spatial data. Especially useful for students interested in environmental, demographic, suitability, and transportation-related research
URBN PL M250. Transportation and Land Use: Urban Form (Graduate)
Historical evolution of urban form and transportation systems, intrametropolitan location theory, recent trends in urban form, spatial mismatch hypothesis, jobs/housing balance, transportation in strong central city and polycentric city, neotraditional town planning debate, rail transit and urban form
URBN PL 251. Transportation and Land Use: Parking (Graduate)
Study of theory and practice of planning for parking and examination of how planning for parking in U.S. has become planning for free parking. Exploration of new ways to improve planning for parking, transportation, and land use
URBN PL 252. Transportation and Land Use: Transportation and Urban Design Studio (Graduate)
Students acquire ability to collect and synthesize evidence typically marshaled by transportation planning and urban design professionals, urban and site analysis capabilities, design and physical planning skills, and data analysis and design presentation and re-presentation abilities
URBN PL M253. Travel Behavior Analysis (Graduate)
Descriptions of travel patterns in metropolitan areas, recent trends and projections into future, overview of travel forecasting methods, trip generation, trip distribution, mode split traffic assignment, critique of traditional travel forecasting methods and new approaches to travel behavior analysis
URBN PL 254. Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning (Graduate)
Exploration of field's relationship to land use and transportation planning, public health, and environment. Detailed knowledge provided of various bicycle and pedestrian facilities and their appropriate contexts. Examination of bicycle and pedestrian planning in context of overall street design. Essential components of bicycle and pedestrian planning, including policies, programs, funding, and advocacy. In-class exercises and out-of-class planning projects
URBN PL M255. Transportation Policy and Planning (Graduate)
Introduction to analysis, management, and operation of transportation systems. Topics include evaluating transportation system performance, causes and management of traffic congestion, transportation systems and demand management, complete streets, goods movement, shipping, aviation, and high-speed rail policy and planning, public transportation planning, transportation services for elderly and disabled, and intelligent transportation systems
URBN PL M256. Transportation Economics, Finance, and Policy (Graduate)
Overview of transportation finance and economics; concepts of efficiency and equity in transportation finance; historical evolution of highway and transit finance; current issues in highway finance; private participation in road finance, toll roads, road costs and cost allocation, truck charges, congestion pricing; current issues in transit finance; transit fare and subsidy policies, contracting and privatization of transit services
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