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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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1.011 Project Evaluation covers methodologies for evaluating civil engineering projects, which typically are large-scale and long-lived and involve many economic, financial, social and environmental factors. The course places an emphasis on dealing with uncertainty. Students learn basic techniques of engineering economics, including net pre
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- civil and environmental engineering
- civil engineering project
- engineering economics
- net present value
- life-cycle costing
- benefit-cost analysis
- project evaluation
- cost estimation
- large-scale infrastructure
- building design
- construction
- transportation systems
- urban development
- environmental projects
- water resource management
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1.201J/11.545J/ESD.210J is required for all first-year Master of Science in Transportation students. It would be of interest to, as well as accessible to, students in Urban Studies and Planning, Political Science, Technology and Policy, Management, and various engineering departments. It is a good subject for those who plan to take only one
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- civil and environmental engineering
- transportation
- technology
- environmental
- energy
- economic development
- sustainability
- urban structure
- land use
- equity
- transportation components
- modes
- intermodal combinations
- quantitative modeling
- strategic regional planning
- institutional change analysis
- clios
- large-scale systems
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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) represent a major transition in transportation on many dimensions. This course considers ITS as a lens through which one can view many transportation and societal issues. ITS is an international program intended to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of surface transportation systems through adv
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- civil and environmental engineering
- intelligent transportation systems
- its
- technological systems
- institutional aspects of its
- system architecture
- congestion pricing
- public
- surface transportation systems
- information systems
- communications
- sensors
- post-interstate
- highways
- public transportation
- network models
- public partnerships
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Approaching transportation as a complex, large-scale, integrated, open system (CLIOS), this course strives to be an interdisciplinary systems subject in the "open" sense. It introduces qualitative modeling ideas and various techniques and philosophies of modeling complex transportation enterprises. It also introduces conceptual frameworks f
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- civil and environmental engineering
- transportation systems
- large-scale integrated systems
- passenger transportation systems
- freight transportation systems
- transportation planning
- transportation investment
- transportation operations
- transportation maintenance
- system performance
- level of service metrics
- level of service determinants
- design of transportation services
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Students in ESD.00 work on projects to address large, complex and seemingly intractable real-world problems, such as energy supply, environmental issues, health care delivery, and critical infrastructure (e.g., telecommunications, water supply, and transportation). The course introduces interdisciplinary approaches - rooted in engineering,
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- engineering systems division
- systems engineering
- system dynamics
- complex sociotechnical systems
- uncertainty
- networks
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This class provides an introduction to quantitative models and qualitative frameworks for studying complex engineering systems. Also taught is the art of abstracting a complex system into a model for purposes of analysis and design while dealing with complexity, emergent behavior, stochasticity, non-linearities and the requirements of many
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- engineering systems division
- frameworks and models in engineering systems
- quantitative models
- qualitative frameworks
- complex engineering systems
- analysis and design
- emergent behavior
- stochasticity
- non-linearities
- architectural system configuration
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