Using Visual Simulation Tools And Learning Outcomes-Based Curriculum To Help Transportation Engineering Students And Practitioners To Better Understand And Design Traffic Signal Control Systems

The use of visual simulation tools to convey complex concepts has become a useful tool in education as well as in research. This report describes a project that developed curriculum and visualization tools to train transportation engineering students to more deeply understand complex traffic control systems and to have an increased ability to prepare designs to improve these systems. Prototype tools and curriculum developed as part of this project address several traffic signal operations modes including actuated control, coordination, and railroad preemption.

• Record URL:
  http://www.webs1.uidaho.edu/niatt/research/Final_Reports/KLK718_N12-09.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24938
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology

  University of Idaho, Moscow
  115 Engineering Physics Building
  Moscow, ID  United States  83844-0901

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Department of Transportation

  Research and Special Programs Administration
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC    20590
• Authors:
  • Kyte, Michael
  • Anderson, John
• Publication Date: 2012-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 81p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Education and training; Highway operations; Simulation; Traffic signal control systems; Traffic signal preemption; Transportation engineering; Visualization
• Subject Areas: Design; Education and Training; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I10: Economics and Administration; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01446985
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: KLK718, N12-09
• Contract Numbers: DTRT07-G-0056
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 21 2012 3:10PM