CEE 498 T4O
CEE 498 T4O - Transportation Risk and Safety
Spring 2021
Title | Rubric | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Transportation Risk and Safety | CEE498 | T4O | 59028 | ONL | 4 | 1400 - 1520 | T R | Christopher P. L. Barkan Chen-Yu Lin |
Official Description
Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in civil and environmental engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: 1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.
Section Description
Prerequisites: Probability/statistics course, or CEE 491, or permission of instructor. This course is designed to introduce students to transportation risk analysis, focusing on freight and hazardous materials transportation. Topics covered include transportation risk management framework, qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative risk assessment techniques, structuring decision problems, overview of hazardous materials transportation, transportation-mode-specific risk assessment methods for highways, railroads, pipelines and inlands waterway, and transportation security.
Subject Area
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce students to transportation risk analysis, focusing on freight and hazardous materials transportation. Topics covered include transportation risk management framework, qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative risk assessment techniques, structuring decision problems, overview of hazardous materials transportation, transportation-mode-specific risk assessment methods for highways, railroads, pipelines and inlands waterway, and transportation security.
Credit Hours
4 hours
Prerequisites
Probability/statistics course, or CEE 491, or permission of instructor.
Last updated
12/21/2020