Spring 2027

Geometric Design of Transport Facilities

Geometric Design of Transport Facilities covers ground transportation facility design, including intersections, grade separations, interchanges, and parking terminals.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 David Noyce3.4/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.50 GPA, 73.3% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.35 GPA, 47.8% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.46 GPA, 73.1% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and characterize the key attributes of the vehicles, operators, and highway systems that affect geometric design

  • Describe human behavior and accommodation of driver attributes in design

  • Describe highway design objectives, constraints, and controlling factors

  • Identify the basic parameters and constraints for the design of rural and urban alignments, vertical profiles, cross sections, and intersections

  • Design a highway from terrain to complete highway in a 3D computer-aided design package

  • Use design theory concepts and highway design knowledge in a real-world design project

  • Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of highway design

  • Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of building highways in urban and rural areas

  • Describe highway design theory concepts regarding your area of research

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Prerequisites

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CIV ENGR 370, graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students

    • CIVENGR 370
    • graduate/professional standing
    • member of Engineering Guest Students
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.50 GPA, 73.3% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.35 GPA, 47.8% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.46 GPA, 73.1% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DAVID NOYCE is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.50 GPA, 73.3% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.35 GPA, 47.8% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.46 GPA, 73.1% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Generation, capacity, location, and design of ground transportation facilities.
  • Rural and urban at-grade intersection design.
  • Grade separations and interchanges.
  • Parking lots and terminals.
  • Sustainability challenges in highway design.

Skills

  • Characterize vehicle, operator, and system attributes affecting geometric design.
  • Accommodate human behavior and driver attributes in facility design.
  • Analyze highway design objectives, constraints, and controlling factors.
  • Apply parameters and constraints for alignments, profiles, cross sections, and intersections.
  • Execute highway design in 3D computer-aided design software.
  • Integrate design theory into real-world engineering projects.
  • Evaluate social, economic, and environmental sustainability dimensions.
  • Apply sustainability frameworks to urban and rural highway construction.

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CIVENGR 573 · Spring 2027

Geometric Design of Transport Facilities

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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