Course Details

Modern Trends in Traffic Engineering (DST)

Academic Year 2024/25

CM055 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

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 nonlinear dynamics 2. Traffic flow theory, conservation law, fundamental diagrams 3. Microsopic models of traffic flow, car following models 4. Sensitivity of the model to parameter variance 5. Information systems, information propagation in traffic systems 6. Telematic applications, influence to traffic flow 7. Advanced control systems for vehicles 8. Accelerometrical measurements 9. Application of gyroscopes in measurement units 10. Traffic surveys with vehicle in traffic flow 11. Video for traffic research on crossings 12. Conditions for aerostat application in traffic survey 13. Critical and follow up gaps according to Siegloch on roundabout

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction to nonlinear dynamics 2. Traffic flow theory, conservation law, fundamental diagrams 3. Microscopic models of traffic flow, car following models 4. Sensitivity of the model to parameter variance 5. Information systems, information propagation in traffic systems 6. Telematic applications, influence to traffic flow 7. Advanced control systems for vehicles 8. Accelerometrical measurements 9. Application of gyroscopes in measurement units 10. Traffic surveys with vehicle in traffic flow 11. Video for traffic research on crossings 12. Conditions for aerostat application in traffic survey 13. Critical and follow up gaps according to Siegloch on roundabout