01328278

Monograph

This issue contains 6 papers on the following aspects of research and education: student understanding of sight distance in geometric design; learning styles in an engineering laboratory; design of transportation curriculum materials with examples; traffic control game for teaching high school students; outsourcing decision making in a department of transportation; and performance measures for road infrastructure research programs.

English

61p

2010

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309160759

Print

Figures; References; Tables

Contracting out; Curricula; Decision making; Education; Geometric design; Highway design; Highway traffic control; Laboratories; Learning; Performance measurement; Research; Sight distance; Transportation departments

Computer games; Research programs

Education and Training; Research; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 26 2011 1:22PM

• Comparison of Lecture- and Problem-Based Learning Styles in an Engineering Laboratory
• Development and Deployment of Traffic Control Game: Integration with Traffic Engineering Curriculum for Teaching High School Students
• Outsourcing Decision Making in Public Organizations: Proposed Methodology and Initial Analytic Results from a Department of Transportation
• Process for Improving Design of Transportation Curriculum Materials with Examples
• Student Understanding of Sight Distance in Geometric Design: A Beginning Line of Inquiry
• Toward Performance Measures for Road Infrastructure Research Programs: Australian Experience