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  • Mitigating Traffic Congestion thru Managing Demand

    Credits: 3 PDH

    PDH Course Description:

    This online engineering PDH course articulates a framework for managing demand to improve the performance and ef¬ficiency of transportation systems. The framework consists of three elements: demand-side strategies, travel choices, and application settings.

    An illustration of the framework might be a large urban hospital (the application setting) which causes traffic congestion when employees’ work shift ends. Introduction of flextime for the employees (a demand-side strategy) would cause employees to alter their travel departure times (affect their travel choices), thus lessening congestion.

    The course describes dozens of strategies and shows how they can affect a wide array of travel choices in many different application settings. Numerous real-life examples are given.

    Topics:

    • Demand-side strategies
    • Mode choices
    • Departure-time choices
    • Route choices
    • Trip reduction choices
    • Origin/destination location choices
    • Applications
    • Summary of case study experience

    To take this course:

    1.) Enroll in Course: Click below to enroll:
    (must be logged into your user account)


    2.) Study: Once enrolled, click below to begin the course:

    Download the Study Guide

    3.) Test: Once you've thoroughly read the course materials, please click below to take the final examination.

    Take the final exam

    4.) Certificate: A passing grade of 70% or higher on the exam, is required to receive the certificate of completion for this PDH course.
         NOTE: After the exam is completed, you will need to return to this page, in order to print (download) the certificate of completion.

    Print the Certificate of Completion

    Intended Audience: This course is intended for civil and transportation engineers concerned with mitigating traffic congestion.
    Publication Source: US FHWA

    Mark Rossow PhD, PE (retired)

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