Quebec Transportation 15 PDH Discount Package

This online engineering PDH course presents information regarding vehicle and pedestrian detection systems used in modern traffic signal control.  The material is intended to provide a practical overview of detection types, components and operational characteristics.

Vehicle detection is used for a variety of traffic control purposes. Detectors are used to:

• Count vehicles;
• Operate gates at exits of parking garages and other restricted entrances;
• Control vehicles entering a freeway ("ramp metering");
• Provide incident detection on freeways by measuring speeds and other traffic characteristics;
• Provide Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) for automatic toll collection;
• Provide emergency vehicle detection for use in signal preemption; and
• Control actuated traffic signals.

This 2 PDH online course is intended for traffic engineers and transportation design professionals who are involved in the planning and design of detection systems for traffic signals.

This online engineering PDH course presents the factors that lead up to the decision to construct a roundabout with an approximate configuration at a specific location, preceding the detailed analysis and design of a roundabout. By confirming that there is good reason to believe that roundabout construction is feasible and that a roundabout offers a sensible method of accommodating the traffic demand, these planning activities make unnecessary the expenditure of effort required subsequently.

This course also presents methods for analyzing the operation of an existing or planned roundabout. These methods allow a transportation analyst to assess the operational performance of a facility, given information about the usage of the facility and its geometric design elements. An operational analysis produces two kinds of estimates: (1) the capacity of a facility, i.e., the ability of the facility to accommodate various streams of users, and (2) the level of performance, often measured in terms of one or more measures of effectiveness, such as delay and queues.

This 5 PDH online course is applicable to traffic engineers, transportation planners, conceptual and detailed designers, and other technical professionals who are involved in the planning and operation of roundabouts.

This online engineering PDH course examines various cost-effective techniques that can be used to generate good signal timing plans that can be employed when there are insufficient financial resources to generate the plans using conventional techniques. This course develops a "tool box" of procedures and provides examples of how the tool box can be used when there is a moderate signal timing budget, when there is a modest signal timing budget, and when there is a minimum signal timing budget.

The conventional approach to signal timing optimization and field deployment requires current traffic flow data, experience with optimization models, familiarity with the signal controller hardware, and knowledge of field operations including signal timing fine-tuning. Developing new signal timing parameters for efficient traffic flow is a time-consuming and expensive undertaking.

This 5 PDH online course is applicable to traffic engineers and planners, administrators, managers, and technicians who are trying to maintain the best possible signal timing settings and adjustments to meet the ever-increasing traffic demands with less than optimal budgets.