This is an introductory course to transportation engineering and planning. You are being exposed to a variety of topics, but transportation is such a broad and interesting industry and we are only able to cover a small portion of the possible topics.

For this project, you need to:

1. Research a topic or current event in transportation that you find interesting/intriguing.
2. Find at least 3 resources on the topic (for example a news article, an industry report (ASCE, ITE, etc.), a peer-reviewed article, etc.).
3. Write a 2-page report that includes the following information:
   1. What is the main topic/current event? Are you researching a new technology? A new policy? How
   2. Why are you interested in it and how does it solve a problem and/or help accomplish the ultimate goal of transportation engineering and planning (improve quality of life while protecting the environment and balancing economic concerns).
   3. What are the pros and cons of this issue?
   4. What is the forecast for what will happen with your topic in the future?

You will be graded on quality of your writing (spelling, grammar, syntax, etc.); effectiveness of your writing (are you concise? did you make clear points and support them with evidence?); following of directions (did you find a minimum of 3 resources, did you answer the questions?); and the quality of your content (did you use quality resources? did you choose a relevant topic?).

This will be graded like a Type 2/3 assignment, on a 0-4 scale.

You can turn this assignment whenever you complete it (i.e. you can turn it in early).