Reading Materials:

Required readings in addition to the textbook. You may need Adobe Reader to read some of them. If you do not have Adobe Reader installed, please click here.

RM-1: Todd Litman Measuring Transportation . ITE Journal, 2003.

Traffic, Mobility and Accesibility.

RM-2: Jeffery Brown. Reconsider the Gas Tax: Paying for What You Get. ACCESS, No. 19, Fall 2001.

Brown examines the history behind the gas tax and uses it to describe why he believes it is still a good system. A good short history of the gas tax. 

RM-3: Galway Cycling Campaign. Irish Junction Design Practice: An Information Sheet. Accessed online on Mar. 23, 2005.

What can a poor intersection geometry design result in? Higher accident risk! This article briefly discusses design issues related to cycling accidents.

RM-4: Klein, L.A., D. Gibson, and M.K. Mills. Chapter 1: Introduction of Traffic Detector Handbook (Vol. 1). Third Edition, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Report No. FHWA-HRT-06-108. 2006.

The reading material provides an excellent introduction to the popular off-the-shelf traffic sensors. More details of loop and other types of sensors can be found in the Traffic Detector Handbook.

RM-5: Puget Sound Regional Council. Transportation 2040 Executive Summary. May 2010.

Transportation 2040 is the transportation action plan for the central Puget Sound region of Washington state. Transportation 2040 is about moving people and making it easier to get between home and work, school, shopping and recreation. This reading material is a summary of the entire plan. For more information, please visit the Transportation 2040 Web site at the Puget Sound Regional Council.

RM-6: Daniela Bremmer, Keith Cotton, Dan Cotey, Charles Prestrud, and Gary Westby. WSDOT's Congestion Measurement Approach: Learning from Operational Data. Mar. 2004.

This is a summary of a TRB paper. The authors describe how WSDOT alleviates congestion on freeways and highways and the methods used to measure such congestion. They also explain how the WSDOT traffic map works and from where was the data obtained. Planned improvements are also introduced. For a more in-depth treatment of the subject, read this TRB Paper.