HCM 6th Edition One-Day Overview
This one day course highlights and summarizes changes in the HCM 6th Edition, and how they impact practice. The workshop provides an overview of changes to the arterial and freeway chapters of the HCM, and will cover such critical HCM updates as new roundabout capacity, new planning-level methods for signalized intersections, and new methods for quantifying reliability on surface streets and freeways. Registration: Walt Thomas | Class Information: Thomas Chase
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HCM 6th Edition – Signals, Roundabouts, and Arterial Streets
This hands-on one-day course provides details and applications of the interrupted flow methods in the HCM 6th Edition, including signalized intersections, roundabouts, urban streets, and multimodal methodologies. The course will be hosted in ITRE’s computer lab, to give attendees hands-on experience in working with the necessary HCM software. Registration: Walt Thomas | Class Information: Thomas Chase
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HCM 6th Edition – Freeway Applications
This hands-on one-day course provides details and applications of the uninterrupted flow methods in the HCM 6th Edition, including freeway segment and facility methods, freeway reliability analysis, and specialized applications such as work zones and managed lanes. The course will be hosted in ITRE’s computer lab, to give attendees hands-on experience in working with the FREEVAL analysis software. Registration: Walt Thomas | Class Information: Thomas Chase
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HCM 6th Edition, 1 + 1 – Signals, Roundabouts, and Arterial Streets
This two-day course combines the one-day overview course with the one-day applied signals, roundabouts, and arterials course. The two day course provides a discount over registering for the two days individually.
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HCM 6th Edition, 1 + 1 – Freeway Applications
This two-day course combines the one-day overview course with the one-day freeway applications course. The two day course provides a discount over registering for the two days individually.
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Roundabout Design
15 PDH credits
The instructors for this course will present the key geometric principles and guidelines used to develop and design a roundabout. They will highlight the differences between older traffic circles and rotaries and new roundabout design features. They will also address the typical questions of why, where, when and how roundabouts should be considered as an appropriate intersection solution. This course includes modules on recent research on U.S. roundabout capacity, roundabout design techniques, and hands-on exercises, including sketching single-lane and multilane roundabouts in a small group. The basis for the course is NCHRP Report 672: Roundabouts: An Informational Guide, Second Edition, the latest information in the HCM 6th Edition, other state-of-the practice research, and the collective experience of the instructors on roundabout projects and research. Upon completion of this course, participants will:
- Have a basic understanding of roundabout applications,
- Understand the guiding principles of roundabout design,
- Be able to perform basic design checks of a single-lane roundabout,
- Understand the principles of roundabout design for single-lane and multilane roundabouts,
- Be able to sketch a concept single-lane roundabout and multilane roundabout,
- Understand the nuances of roundabout design related to vertical design, pedestrian and bicycle treatments, and right-turn bypass lanes.
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Unconventional Intersections
6 PDH credits
This one-day workshop provides an overview of the various alternative intersection and interchange designs that an engineer or planner may consider during the planning or design stages of a project. The class provides a fundamental understanding of how the various designs function under an array of conditions, the trade-offs of each design alternative, and other pertinent information. This class covers material relevant to any staff member looking to learn more about this area.
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Unconventional Intersections Laboratory
6 PDH credits
The purpose of the follow-up laboratory is to provide attendees the chance to work through hands-on examples and apply the principles discussed at the workshop. The session will include at least one challenging surface-street example, one difficult grade-separated intersection example, and one constrained interchange example. Attendees will work together in small teams to develop potential solutions and then will discuss their potential solutions with the larger group. The laboratory should again be of interest to any planners, designers, and operations professionals who work on intersections and interchanges. Laboratory attendees should have attended the alternative intersection and interchange workshop on October 21, 2020 or at some point in the past, or should have professional experience with intersections and interchanges. Attendees will need to apply basic math to the examples and should bring a laptop to the session to make the calculations easier.
When a Crash Becomes a Case – Studies in Transportation Litigation
This one day workshop is designed to provide participants with an introduction to forensic engineering, particularly as it pertains to transportation matters. Students will be presented actual case histories involving such topics as highway design, drainage, maintenance and operation. There will also be a discussion of what might happen if a lawsuit is filed as a result of a crash,
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