Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionThis course introduces applying geospatial techniques in the Transportation Industry. This includes using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to incorporate ecological and socioeconomic forces into route planning, highway management, and traffic modeling. GIS are spatial drawings with multiple types of information associated with them; business, land use, roads, rivers, parcel maps, census, others. Students will use GIS Software (ArcGIS or similar) to analyze and solve real-world problems using cartography, computer representation of geographic data, vector and raster data models, map projections, coordinate systems, Global Positioning Systems, and spatial analysis. 