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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 In-depth field study of ongoing transportation policy, operations, or logistics situations; and design and delivery of actions to manage or resolve problems and opportunities. Range of application areas depends on interests of student body and opportunities faculty identify for "clients" or real-world projects. Illustrative domain areas include surface transportation (highways and transit), airports, and aviation.Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Recent changes in federal legislation have led to renewed importance for transportation policy and planning. Considerations of clean air, economic development, congestion management, and changing urban form have greatly increased importance of well-planned transportation facilities and policies. Course introduces basic methods of transportation policy analysis and evaluation. Topics include data collection, simplified demand estimation techniques, transportation choice modeling, transportation supply analysis, and ex-ante and ex-post evaluation methods. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Overview of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), which include wide range of information technology applications to surface transportation. ITS categories include traffic management, traveler information, fleet control, commercial vehicle regulation, transit, rural, and vehicle-control systems. Key institutional and policy issues involve the appropriate federal role in ITS; state and local government collaboration; public-private partnerships; how privacy interests can be protected as ITS surveillance and enforcement technologies become increasingly sophisticated; and how driver information systems, including cell phones, can be used to optimal advantage without burdening drivers with information overload. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Examines salient issues associated with telecommunications and electronic commerce in context of public policy questions facing decision makers in government, education, and business. Examples include privacy, electronic signatures, digital divide, bandwidth auctions, IP telephony, CRM, Bluetooth, and Internet taxation. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Transportation impinges on many aspects of life: economic, social, and political. Provision and operation of transportation services involves a wide range of trade-offs. Course looks at range of evaluation techniques and concepts applied in making decisions over such matters as transportation investments, transportation operating strategies, and public policy as it affects transportation. Considers theory and concepts as well as more detailed assessments of standard evaluation methods used in United States and elsewhere. Case studies reviewed in depth. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Overview of most important factors affecting fleet operations today. Topics include goals for government fleet operations and privately owned fleets, proforma cost analysis, fleet operations including route and vehicle and operator selection, asset-based versus non-asset based fleets, fleet design and make-up based on multiple objectives, scheduled maintenance requirements and trade-offs, shared capacity issues, reverse logistics policies, costs, operations, environmental constraints on fleets, fuel logistics, fleet decision-making, competitive and market challenges, and opportunities in fleet management. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Introduces main elements that have attracted significant attention over the past decade. Several developments have challenged traditional framework for transportation service delivery, including changes in transportation environment; shift in public's attitude toward provision of public goods; and extraordinary advances in communication and computer technologies. Adoption of transportation asset management poses significant challenges on both organizational structure and existing knowledge base within transportation agencies. Course provides overview of these challenges, and introduces theoretical frameworks within which challenges may be analyzed. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Provides inquiry into policy-making environment, organized around U.S. federal system. Examines nation's policy systems and key components: actors, institutions of governance, outside groups, and other influential interests. Special emphasis on dynamic character of policy making. In addition, different policy theories discussed in context of current political realities. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Covers monetary theory, theories of consumption and saving, budget deficits, economic growth, international finance, and monetary and fiscal policy. Investigates national income and product accounts, savings, employment, and investment, and alternatives to Keynesian principles. Evaluates theories of inflation, investment, capital accumulation, and nonproportional growth. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Multidisciplinary course examines implications of transportation and how public policy has attempted to handle them, and how policy may move in future. Looks at all modes of transportation and at most environmental ramifications. In addition to two faculty members, several guest speakers provide wider perspectives on particular issues. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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