Courses

Examination of the interrelated nature of transportation, land use and urban design; familiarization with the role of transportation in contemporary society; understanding the interrelationships between transportation and urban form at both the regional and community levels.

Transportation Data Science introduces students to the processing, analysis, and interpretation of large-scale transportation-related data. The course develops programming proficiency in Python and provides an overview of key algorithms and machine learning methods used in transportation research and practice. Students apply data-driven techniques to real transportation datasets to support analysis, modeling, and decision-making.

This course is a study of the United States transportation system with a specific emphasis on freight transportation modes common to distribution logistics. Topics include common modes of freight transportation, transportation mode characteristics, cost, operational factors, transportation regulation, and planning.

This is an advanced level course with emphasis on transportation projects. Students will create construction drawings based on concepts and principles learned in previous courses. Students will implement local jurisdiction design criteria while utilizing industry standard software including Microstation, Geopak and others.

Fundamental principles and methods in planning, design, and operation of transportation systems; driver and vehicle performance capabilities; highway geometric and pavement design principles; traffic analysis and transportation planning.

Students are introduced to the concepts, theories, and methods of transportation terminals, transportation economics, urban transportation, logistics, and transportation techniques applied in transportation analysis, such as network analysis, gravity systems in transportation studies.

An overview of transportation, emphasizing its role, environmental and sociological aspects, economic characteristics, carrier services, regulations and policy goals.

The discipline of transportation management; exploration of the transportation function as related to the different modes, role of government, carrier management, transportation economics and current trends in the field.

Covers the characterization and design of transportation materials: asphalt binder, aggregates, and hot mix asphalt; properties of aggregates, asphalt binder and hot mix asphalt; AASHTO characterization of aggregates and binder; Superpave mix design; Superpave performance tests; COURSE DESCRIPTIONS, AAMU Undergraduate Bulletin, 2025-2026 ~ 236 ~ pavement performance and maintenance; practical applications and recent developments; transportation laboratory will be used for this course.

This course presents an in-depth orientation to contemporary transportation, planning computer model packages, and analytical techniques. Students are introduced to calibration and application of network-based aggregate data for travel demand models.