Course Details
Traffic Engineering (DST)
Academic Year 2024/25
NMB010 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction to traffic engineering, traffic engineering branches.
2. Transportation systems categories.
3. Traffic flow theory.
4. Capacity calculations – free highway segment.
5. Capacity calculations – uncontrolled intersections.
6. Capacity calculations – roundabouts.
7. Capacity calculations – Traffic light controlled intersections.
8. Traffic data collection systems.
9. Traffic studies – individual vehicle transport.
10. Traffic studies – public transport.
11. Mathematical transport models – individual vehicle transport.
12. Mathematical transport models – public transport.
13. Traffic forecasting systems, traffic control and organisation.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. VBA.
2. Veveří/Kounicova – introduction.
3. Veveří/Kounicova – 1st traffic survey.
4. Veveří/Kounicova – 2nd traffic survey.
5. Veveří/Kounicova – survey of control plans, queue lengths.
6. Veveří/Kounicova – data processing.
7. Veveří/Kounicova – designing and calculations.
8. Veveří/Kounicova – designing and calculations.
9. Veveří/Kounicova – 1st presentation.
10. Veveří/Kounicova – finalization of designing and calculations.
11. Veveří/Kounicova – finalization of designing and calculations.
12. Veveří/Kounicova – 2nd presentation.