Transportation Courses Offered Online via UF EDGE

Various courses in transportation engineering are offered via UF Electronic Delivery of Graduate Engineering (UF EDGE), a convenient program within the UF College of Engineering that allows students to earn graduate degrees, obtain certificates, or take individual courses all while maintaining their current jobs and/or keeping their family schedules. The course lectures and materials are accessed online from anywhere in the world with no campus visits required.

As part of the UF EDGE course offerings, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, professor and director of the UFTI, currently teaches TTE 6267 -Traffic Flow Theory. Students in her course learn how to evaluate highway facilities under various conditions, recognize traffic flow characteristics, create and apply theories for the motions of a single vehicle and groups of vehicles, compare and contrast the various traffic analysis techniques and apply them to highway facilities and more.  Mr. Bill Sampson, director of McTrans, teaches TTE 6207 – Highway Capacity Analysis, which covers methodologies in the 2010 HCM chapter for freeways, highways, and streets and provides hands-on instruction for the use of HCM software. He also teaches TTE 5256 – Traffic Engineering. In this course, students learn about the technical aspect of traffic engineering. The course is analytical in nature and covers procedural and computational methods that are used to carry out traffic operations and safety tasks.

For more information on the UF EDGE program, visit: http://www.ufedge.ufl.edu/.