Course Details

Traffic Structures Theory

Academic Year 2024/25

DMB020 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-K Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-K Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-K Summer Semester 1st year

DPC-K Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

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.