Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: CVEEN 3520.
Description
This course provides a systematic coverage of public transportation characteristics and operations. The course presents a history of transit development in the U.S., an overview of trends in transit ridership, a review of transit systems and their usage worldwide, the fundamentals of transit vehicle motion, bus operating and performance characteistics, and rail transit supply characteristics.