COURSE

INTR5200

Emerging Mobility and Multimodal Freight Systems

Systems Hub / Intelligent Transportation · 3 Credits

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) apply a variety of technologies to monitor, evaluate, and manage transportation systems to enhance their efficiency, safety, and sustainability. This postgraduate-level course introduces the basic functional components in ITS and how they are designed and operated to manage multi-modal transportation systems, including both passenger and freight transportation systems and infrastructure. The course topics cover the following three main parts: (i) Emerging vehicle technologies and mobility services, data management, and institutional issues; (ii) Multi-modal freight operations and management in road, rail, maritime and inter-modal systems; (iii) Analytical methods including fundamentals of system analysis, risk and regression analysis, network flow optimization and algorithm design, etc.