Scott S. Washburn, Ph.D., PE and Leslie D. Washburn, PE

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Presents a SunCam continuing education series on the topic of:

Highways and Traffic

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washburnwise@outlook.com
Gainesville, Florida

Dr. Scott Washburn is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida, where he has served on the faculty since August of 1999. Dr. Washburn is also the President of Washburn Innovative Software & Education, LLC. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Washington and Florida.

Dr. Washburn's primary areas of expertise include traffic flow theory, traffic operations analysis, traffic simulation model development and testing, development of traffic analysis and level of service computational methodologies and complementary software tools. He is a member of the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee (which produces the Highway Capacity Manual) for the Transportation Research Board, and is chair of the User Liaison subcommittee, past chair of the Freeway/Multilane Highway subcommittee, and is also actively involved with the Two-Lane Highway, Simulation, and Performance Measures subcommittees.

Dr. Washburn has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and is co-author of the textbook "Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis". Dr. Washburn is the developer of the Freeway Facilities and LOSPLAN software packages.

Dr. Washburn's teaching background includes courses on civil engineering systems, transportation engineering, traffic engineering, freeway operations, traffic simulation, geometric design, numeric/computational methods, and statistical and econometric methods.

Ms. Leslie Washburn is Vice President of Washburn Innovative Software & Education, LLC. She previously was the Workforce Development Coordinator for the University of Florida Transportation Institute. Ms. Washburn received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Montana State University. Ms. Washburn has 22 years of professional experience in project management, permit review, and transportation curriculum development. Recent curriculum development includes a course for middle school students utilizing robotics and computer programming to introduce autonomous vehicle concepts. She is a registered professional engineer in the states of Washington and Florida.

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208-Future Highways - Automated Vehicles

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

It has been approximately 100 years since the motorized vehicle replaced the horse and buggy. The future of highway transportation is now undergoing another major revolution as engineers across numerous disciplines (transportation, automotive, technology, etc.) work towards moving the responsibility of driving the automobile from human to machine, see figure. The development of cars driven completely without aid by a human driver (i.e., driverless cars), commonly referred to as 'automated' vehicles, will certainly give more appropriate meaning to the term 'auto'-mobile.

Example of future highway
Example of a future highway (Source: USDOT)

In this course, you will learn about:

the terminology being used in the field of automated highway vehicles,
examples of government legislation being implemented to facilitate the future of automated vehicles,
the technologies being used in automated vehicles,
automated vehicle engineering research and standards under development, and
potential impacts of automated vehicles on traffic flow and roadway design.

344-The Highway Capacity Manual - 6th Edition: Overview and What's New

(4.6) 10 Reviews

4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

The 6^th Edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) was released in 2016 and is now the standard for both the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam and Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam. The title of this new HCM is "HCM 6^th Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis". This edition of the HCM provides methods for evaluating multimodal operations of freeways, highways, and arterial streets. The focus of this course is on providing a general overview of the content and organization of the HCM 6^th edition and highlighting revisions/updates from the previous edition of the HCM (HCM 2010). The course does not provide detailed coverage of analysis methodology elements. Due to the volume of material covered in the HCM, some general knowledge of the document(s) may be helpful to completing this course, but it is not required.

Highway Capacity Manual 6^th Edition Cover

Source: Transportation Research Board

In this course, you will learn about:

HCM edition history
Why the HCM title was changed
Why the need for a new HCM edition
HCM 6^th edition structure — revised chapter layout design to help practitioners use the manual
New HCM analysis methodology capabilities
Future directions/updates to the HCM

395-Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD): Introduction and Overview of Signs

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) (1) provides national standards and guidance with respect to location, shape, size, and color for roadway signs, markings, and signals. Such guidance and standards are intended to enhance transportation safety and efficiency and provide uniformity of such devices to drivers across of the United States.

Figure 1. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 2009 Edition Cover

In this course, you will learn about:

General guidelines for traffic control devices
How to utilize the MUTCD effectively
Sign functions and purposes
Sign types and designs
General sign guidance on shapes, color, dimensions, location and more

Source of artwork is the MUTCD 2009 Edition and photos are by Scott or Leslie Washburn, unless noted otherwise..

403-Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD): Overview of Pavement Markings

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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Figure 1. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 2009 Edition Cover

In this course, you will learn about:

General guidelines for pavement markings
Pavement marking functions and purposes
Pavement marking types and designs

Source of artwork is the MUTCD 2009 Edition and photos are by Scott or Leslie Washburn, unless notd otherwise.

464-Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD): Overview of Highway Traffic Signals

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Figure 1. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 2009 Edition Cover

In this course, you will learn about:

General guidelines for highway traffic signals
Highway traffic signal functions and purposes
Highway traffic signal types and designs