CE774 (3 0 0 6) - Traffic Management and Design (2022)

Prof. Tom V. Mathew

Updated 2022/04/14 at 13:19:30
 
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Contents

1 Overview
 1.1 Eligibility
 1.2 Course contents
 1.3 Evaluation
 1.4 Assignments
  1.4.1 Assignmnet 1
  1.4.2 Assignmnet 2
  1.4.3 Assignmnet 3
  1.4.4 Assignmnet 4 new
2 Resources

1 Overview

1.1 Eligibility

  1. This is a 6 credit elective course with CE-334 or CE-740 as pre-requisite.
  2. This course is running in Slot 1 and has three lectures per week
    1. Slot 1 A - Mon - 08:30 - 09:25
    2. Slot 1 B - Tue - 09:30 - 10:25
    3. Slot 1 C - Thu - 10:30 - 11:25
  3. Only 60 students are allowed to register for this course

1.2 Course contents

Note: Some minor modifications can be expected.

  1. Traffic Impact
    1. Toll operation: Design and configuration, queuing characteristics, operation and maintenance issues.
    2. Congestion studies: Performance measures, intensity, duration, extent of congestion, traveler perception, remedial measures, congestion pricing.
    3. Parking Studies: Parking inventory, statistics, parking surveys; in-out, license palate, on-street and off-street parking.
    4. Fuel Consumption and vehicle operating cost.
    5. Vehicular emission and Air quality modelling.
    6. Traffic safety: Accident studies, Accident data analysis, Statistical methods.
    7. Transportation noise: standards, measurements and mitigation strategies.
  2. Capacity and LOS Analysis for Design of Traffic Facilities (HCM 2000)
    1. Signalized Intersection
    2. Freeway Operations and design
    3. Urban Streets, Two Lane and Multilane Highways
    4. Transit route selection and design
    5. Pedestrians and bicycles facilities
    6. Intersection, roundabout configuration and design
    7. Expressways and Freeways
    8. Interchange design, Freeway Operations and design
    9. Uncontrolled intersection: critical gap, capacity, queue, and delay.
  3. Traffic Management
    1. Discrete simulation models: Cellular automata concepts, discretization of time and space, rules for acceleration, deceleration, randomization, and vehicle updating.
    2. Cell transmission models: Flow conservation, flow transmission.
    3. Traffic progression models: Robertson progression model, platoon movement, dispersion index, applications.
    4. Traffic Management: Strategies, Management Techniques
    5. Work zone traffic management
    6. Traffic calming
  4. Automated Data Collection Systems
    1. Intrusive systems such as loop detectors, pneumatic, etc.,
    2. Non-Intrusive systems such as video, infrared
    3. In-vehicle systems: GPS, Mobiles, Tracking; Positioning systems for location services
    4. Geographical information systems
  5. Intelligent Transportation System
    1. ITS: User services and architecture
    2. ITS: Standards and evaluation
    3. Public transport and bus priority
    4. Travel time estimation methods
    5. Artificial intelligence in advanced traffic and ITS

1.3 Evaluation

Type Marks Remarks
Quizzes 25.0 ± 5 By on line polls
Assignments 25.0 ± 5 Including Excel
Mid Sem 20.0 ± 5
End Sem 30.0 ± 5
Total 100

Note: There can be atmost plus or minus 5 variation in the above distribution. Students are expected to have 80% or more attendance in the lectures.

1.4 Assignments

1.4.1 Assignmnet 1

  1. Download the questions from here.
  2. Deadline: 2022 Mar 02 at 23:59 PM
  3. Submission link: To be provided by TA

1.4.2 Assignmnet 2

  1. Download the questions from here (Q4 Not required).
  2. Deadline: 2022 Mar 09 at 23:59 PM
  3. Submission link: To be provided by TA

1.4.3 Assignmnet 3

  1. Download the questions from here.
  2. Deadline: 2022 Mar 30 at 23:59 PM
  3. Submission link: To be provided by TA

1.4.4 Assignmnet 4

  1. Download the questions from here.
  2. Deadline: 2022 Apr 17 at 23:59 PM.
  3. Submission link: To be provided by TA

2 Resources

  1. Link to Videos.
  2. Link to Lecture Notes.

References

[1]   D R Drew. Traffic flow theory and control. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1968. IITB–.

[2]   Highway Capacity Manual. Transportation Research Board. National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2000.

[3]   L. R Kadiyali. Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning. Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 1987.

[4]   S K Khanna and C E G Justo. Highway Engineering. Nemchand Bros.,, Roorkee, 1991.

[5]   M L Manheim. Fundamentals of transportation systems analysis Vol.1. MIT Press, 1978.

[6]   Adolf D. May. Fundamentals of Traffic Flow. Prentice - Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliff New Jersey 07632, second edition, 1990.

[7]   William R McShane, Roger P Roesss, and Elena S Prassas. Traffic Engineering. Prentice-Hall, Inc, Upper Saddle River, New Jesery, 1998.

[8]   C. S Papacostas. Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering. Prentice-Hall, New Delhi, 1987.

[9]   M Whol and B V Martin. Traffic system analysis for engineers and planners. McGraw Hill, Inc., 1983.