Blog 19: Independent Component 2

Blog 19:  Independent Component 2 

Title:  Independent Component 2
Label:  Independent Component
Due Date:  Friday 4/25 by 8AM

Content:  

LITERAL
(a) I, Isaac Salas, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) My source was my mentor Antonio Salas from RBF consulting.

(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.

(d)   During my 30 hours of mentorship I went out to the field with my mentor and learned how to anayze blueprints for future projects. I had to go through 300 or more of them per day. I also had to learn more about different types of transportation like railroad because they play a big role in transportation. I had to do hours of reading and research even when I wasnt at mentorship.

INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

Throughout my Independent component 2 I became more familiar with the signal timing software that the consulting firm RBF uses. We used these programs to input data that was received by the urban planners. During this component I was able to see both point of views from the engineer and the planner because I went out to different cities throughout the county of Los Angeles with my second mentor to take survey sheets of future projects. These survey sheets allowed us to obtain the geometry of the intersections, off ramps, and highways. These programs use methods to determine new ways to improve traffic flow. 

APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

This component helped me answer my EQ because it helped me understand tranportation a lot better and now I have a much better idea of why everything is the way it is and why there is traffic. It is not as easy as most people think to just build roads and expect for their to be smooth flowing traffic. There is a lot of analyzing and planning before anything can be built.