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Fdot Q/Los Handbook Highway Capacity Manual Level Of Sevice Traffic Flow Theory Traffic Operations Analysis Traffic Simulation
Dr. Scott Washburn is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Dr. Washburn’s areas of expertise include traffic flow theory, traffic operations analysis, traffic simulation model development, development of traffic analysis and level of service computational methodologies and complementary software tools. Dr. Washburn’s primary research efforts are aimed at improving and enhancing traffic analysis methods, particularly those contained in the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), as well as developing better software tools for such analysis methods. Dr. Washburn is a former member of the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee for the Transportation Research Board. In addition to authoring or co-authoring numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, Dr. Washburn is co-author of the textbook “Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis” (https://swash.essie.ufl.edu/textbook/). Dr. Washburn is the developer of the HCM-CALC and SwashSim software packages. Please see Dr. Washburn’s faculty website (https://swash.essie.ufl.edu/) for more information on his background and current activities.
