Creating Multimedia Resources for Engineering Curriculum on Management and Operation of Transportation Systems

Transportation projects may have environmental impacts including air, water and noise pollution, habitat disruption and land use alterations. As engineers, it is our responsibility to be guardians of public safety and to protect the environment. Transportation projects have great potential in engaging in and promotion of sustainable practices, however in engineering curriculum, we often skip discussions on the long-term performance and resource-conscious considerations of transportation practices. This is mainly due to lack of easily accessible and interactive resources. This project aims to fill this gap, through development of educational multimedia resources that faculty can easily access, adopt and share with their students. This project will integrate essential content on transportation projects with environmental impacts assessment of transportation applications and long-term performance and resource-conscious considerations of materials used for transportation projects. The educational resources will include materials (active learning activities, examples, discussion prompts), short informative videos, resources list for related content, interviews with experts in site-specific environmental considerations and contextual decision-making in transportation design. The multimedia materials will be hosted through the website created by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the Colorado State University.

• Record URL:
  • https://www.ctips.org/projects/details.php?id=637

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $60,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3552348308

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Center for Transformative Infrastructure Preservation and Sustainability

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, North Dakota  United States  58108-6050
• Project Managers:

  Tolliver, Denver

• Performing Organizations:

  Colorado State University

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Campus Delivery 1372
  Fort Collins, CO  United States  80523
• Principal Investigators:

  Omur-Ozbek, Pinar

• Start Date: 20241126
• Expected Completion Date: 20261125
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
• Source Data: CTIPS-039

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communities; Environmental impacts; Information services; Land use planning; Sustainable development; Websites
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Environment; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01942563
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Transformative Infrastructure Preservation and Sustainability
• Contract Numbers: 69A3552348308
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 15 2025 5:03PM