Course Details
Traffic Structures Theory
Academic Year 2023/24
DM62 course is part of 2 study plans
D-P-C-SI (N) / KDS Summer Semester 1st year
D-K-C-SI (N) / KDS Summer Semester 1st year
Theory of traffic, transport systems, traffic networks. Problems to be solved in traffic network. Nonlinear dynamic phenomena in traffic flow.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Theoretical basis of traffic phenomena, theoretical instruments for effective traffic control.
Syllabus
1. Subject of the traffic theory, concepts, methodology
2. Transport systems, concepts of system theory
3. Traffic network, graph theory
4. Problems to be solved in traffic network, used algorithms
5. Traffic flow, its characteristics , fundamental diagrams
6. Kinematics of traffic flow, conservation law, wave propagation
7. Stacionary models of traffic flow
8. Microscopic and macroscopic models, simulation of traffic flow
9. Nonlinear dynamic models, their generic characteristics, nonlinear effects, nonlinear fundamental diagrams
10. Spontaneous congestion formation, emergence of congestion in traffic flow
11. Visualisation of important phenomena in traffic flow
12. Simulation of real traffic situations
13. Traffic flow control
2. Transport systems, concepts of system theory
3. Traffic network, graph theory
4. Problems to be solved in traffic network, used algorithms
5. Traffic flow, its characteristics , fundamental diagrams
6. Kinematics of traffic flow, conservation law, wave propagation
7. Stacionary models of traffic flow
8. Microscopic and macroscopic models, simulation of traffic flow
9. Nonlinear dynamic models, their generic characteristics, nonlinear effects, nonlinear fundamental diagrams
10. Spontaneous congestion formation, emergence of congestion in traffic flow
11. Visualisation of important phenomena in traffic flow
12. Simulation of real traffic situations
13. Traffic flow control
Prerequisites
Traffic engineering, algorithm development, fundamentals of physics, fundamentals of numerical mathematics.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Subject of the traffic theory, concepts, methodology
2. Transport systems, concepts of system theory
3. Traffic network, graph theory
4. Problems to be solved in traffic network, used algorithms
5. Traffic flow, its characteristics , fundamental diagrams
6. Kinematics of traffic flow, conservation law, wave propagation
7. Stacionary models of traffic flow
8. Microscopic and macroscopic models, simulation of traffic flow
9. Nonlinear dynamic models, their generic characteristics, nonlinear effects, nonlinear fundamental diagrams
10. Spontaneous congestion formation, emergence of congestion in traffic flow
11. Visualisation of important phenomena in traffic flow
12. Simulation of real traffic situations
13. Traffic flow control