Course Details
Traffic Structures Theory
Academic Year 2024/25
DM62 course is part of 1 study plan
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.
Credits
8 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
Traffic engineering, algorithm development, fundamentals of physics, fundamentals of numerical mathematics.
Aims
Theoretical basis of traffic phenomena, theoretical instruments for effective traffic control.
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