Course Details
Traffic Structures Theory
Academic Year 2025/26
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.