Introduction to Highway Capacity Analysis

This course will introduce participants to the basic concepts and principles of highway capacity analysis. The methodologies established by the most recent edition of the Transportation Research Board's Highway Capacity Manual, HCM2010, will be addressed, with an overview provided of the terms and concepts used throughout the HCM and the procedures for the capacity of: urban streets, two-lane highways, multilane highways, unsignalized intersections, signalized intersections, and freeway facilities. The course will also describe the use of microsimulation packages in capacity analysis, and will contrast these with the HCM approaches.