How Students See a Signalized Intersection: Teaching and Learning the Methods of the Highway Capacity Manual
Two transportation engineering courses are described that show how the signalized intersection method of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) is taught for the first course in transportation engineering and for a later course, at the graduate level, in intersection operations. Both courses are grounded in seven principles that have persisted over the sixty years since the publication of the first HCM in 1950. These principles were identified from a review of the five editions of the HCM. Each course is tailored to the different experience levels of the students, leading to different representations or models of the signalized intersection that are appropriate for these two groups. New curriculum materials for the introductory course based on the HCM planning method were developed after a study of student learning in this course. Materials for the graduate course based on the HCM operational analysis method were developed over a period of more than twenty years of testing the appropriateness of models of signalized intersection operation of varying complexity appropriate for these more experienced students.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB40 Highway Capacity and Quality of Service.
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Authors:
- Kyte, Michael
- Tribelhorn, Maria
- Troutbeck, Rod
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
- Date: 2015
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 15p
- Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Curricula; Highway capacity; Manuals; Methodology; Signalized intersections; Students; Transportation engineering
- Identifier Terms: Highway Capacity Manual
- Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01558202
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 15-5121
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 30 2015 9:34AM