This three day elective course introduces network structures, routes and dynamic segmentation. Describes modeling techniques such as shortest path, location and allocation, vehicle routing and traffic assignment. Explains the integration modeling and planning. Students use a GIS transportation analysis package to complete a series of exercises.
This course is also available on a contract basis and can be tailored to suit your organization's needs. Please contact us to discuss your onsite opportunity.
George Mason University
Office of Continuing Professional Education
10900 University Blvd.
Manassas, VA 20110
Telephone: 703-993-8335
Fax: 703-993-8336
FEATURES
Courses are offered in a three-day seminar format. Classes can be taken individually to strengthen your working knowledge or as part of the certificate program to enhance your career development. Certificate and non-certificate students are awarded 1 CEU (Continuing Education Unit) per ten hours of successful classroom participation. It is possible to complete the certificate in 4 to 36 months. Tailored seminars taught on your premises can be arranged through the Program Manager.
Dr. Spear is a member of the Travel Model Improvement Team in the Federal Highway
Administration's (FHWA) Office of Metropolitan Planning and Programming where he serves as a national expert in travel
demand modeling and in the use of geo-spatial technologies for transportation planning.
From 1995 to 2000, he was the Director of Geographic Information Services at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS). While at BTS, he supervised development of the first consolidated geo-spatial database depicting national
transportation infrastructure, services and flows, and was instrumental in raising GIS awareness, both within the
Department of Transportation and in the broader transportation community.
Before coming to BTS, he was the GIS program manager at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge,
MA and served as the Volpe Center's technical expert on geographic information systems and geo-spatial databases.
Dr. Spear has conducted numerous evaluations, policy studies, and economic analyses for the DOT and other federal
agencies, as well as research in travel behavior and travel demand forecasting.
Dr. Spear received a BSc in civil engineering and a PhD in transportation planning from Cornell University.
