The Transportation Research Institute headed by Dr. Mecit Cetin will be offering a new 3-credit-hour graduate level course, CEE595 Transportation Sustainability, for the first time in Fall 2015. The course will offer an overview of sustainability issues in transportation, and will cover in greater detail topics including Energy Efficiency, Urban Freight, Coastal Infrastructure Reliability, Sustainable Materials, Enhanced Water Quality Management, Land Use, Healthy Communities, and Finance and Policy as they relate to sustainable transportation. A co-operative venture between the universities of the Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability University Transportation Center (MATS UTC), the course brings subject matter experts together from all these topic areas into one course so students may benefit from a rich pool of knowledge and experience. MATS UTC is a US DOT-funded consortium of schools focused on transportation sustainability education and research. Contributing universities for the Transportation Sustainability course include University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Morgan State University, Old Dominion University, Marshall University, and the University of Delaware. ODU's Dr. Navid Tahvildari will be teaching the Coastal Infrastructure Reliability module.
Course lectures and readings are provided online, while discussions and assignments occur both online and face-to-face in schedule course times, facilitated by the Collab online interface hosted at University of Virginia.
Undergraduates may also be eligible to take the course with the approval of the course administrators.