CE740 (3 0 1 8) - Traffic Engineering

Prof. Tom V. Mathew

October 4, 2018

Contents

• Overview
  • Course contents
  • Lecture schedule
  • Evaluation
• Home Work
• Bibliography

Overview

Course contents

Traffic stream characteristics: Road user and vehicle characteristics, Fundamental parameters and relations, Traffic Stream Models, Modelling vehicle arrivals: Continuous distributions to model Headways and speed, Modelling vehicle arrivals: Discrete distributions to model flow and evaluation of distributions. Traffic measurement procedures: Measurement at a Point (Volume data collection and analysis, PCU, PHF etc.), Measurement over a Short Section (Speed data collection and analysis), Measurement along a Length of Road (Density and travel time measurement and analysis), Moving Observer Method, Traffic forecasting and growth studies. Microscopic traffic flow modelling: Car Following Models: Linear models, Car Following Models: Non-linear models, Lane Changing Models, Microscopic Traffic Simulation (Vehicle generation, model frame work, calibration and validations, statistical error analysis, applications). Macroscopic and mesoscopic models: Traffic Flow Modelling Analogies: First order models, analysis of shock waves, Traffic Flow Modelling Analogies: Numerical implementation and higher order models, Cell transmission models, Cellular automata models: Discrete Simulation, Traffic Progression and Platoon dispersion. Traffic Analysis and Management: Capacity and Level of Service concepts, Queuing models and applications, Basics of traffic management. Traffic intersection control: Principles of Traffic Control and Traffic Signs, Road Markings and Channelization, Uncontrolled Intersection: Gap acceptance and capacity concepts, Uncontrolled Intersection: Capacity and LOS analysis, Traffic Rotaries and Grade Separated Intersection. Traffic signal design: Design Principles of Traffic Signal, Evaluation of a Traffic Signal: Delay Models, Capacity and LOS Analysis of a Signalized I/S, Coordinated Traffic Signal, Vehicle Actuated Signals and Area Traffic Control

Lecture schedule

1. Detailed list of lectures followed in this course.
2. Full content of each lecture can be see in lecture notes page.
3. A tentative Lab schedule containing the experiments, date, the TA's supervising the experiments.
4. The templeate for the Lab Record to used by each student. Kindly print blueback-to-back on A4 sheets, spiral bounded, and used for all lab reports.
5. Best time to meet me is after the class.

Evaluation

Quizzes	10.0	Open notes, one day notice
Assignments	20.0	Including Excel
Mid Sem	20.0	Closed notes
Participation	05.0	Class interactions
Lab class	10.0	Report (by TAs)
Lab viva	10.0	By the instructor
End Sem	25.0	closed notes
Total	100

The weights may be changed (plus or minus 5 percent).

Home Work

1. Written Assignments
2. Excel Assignments
3. VISSIM Assignments
   1. VISSIM Youtube
   2. VISSIM Website
   3. VISSIM Presentation