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This open textbook is used to support educating and retaining students coming from non-engineering backgrounds interested in working in the transportation engineering/planning industry. It is an OER textbook for the “Fundamentals of Transportation for Non-Engineers” course for undergraduate or graduate students taught by Dr. Pande at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. 

The open textbook provides tools and basic knowledge required to master the prerequisite essentials of physics, mathematics, and statistics applied in transportation engineering. To our knowledge, no such textbook currently exists to build the KSTs (Knowledge, Skills, Tools) for college first-year students’ remedial courses required by most transportation engineering graduate programs that admit non-engineers (e.g., PHYS 141, MATH 142, STAT 321 at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo). The textbook modules are intended for students with undergraduate degrees in planning and other less technical fields who are interested in pursuing transportation careers where background engineering knowledge is required.

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