Course Details

Traffic Structures Theory

Academic Year 2025/26

DMB020 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-K Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-K Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-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.