ADVANCED TRAFFIC MODELING AND COMPUTER SIMULATION

CIVENGR 577

Comprehensive overview of vehicular traffic flow theory and its use in evaluating congestion and determining control strategies. Starting from the basic concepts defining traffic streams, existing theories are presented at different scales, including car-following (microsimulation) models, lane-changing models, cellular automata models, the kinematic wave model, and macroscopic/network fundamental diagram. Techniques for empirical analysis. Connected and automated vehicles.

CIVENGR 572

Introduction to assessment tools of transportation operations and fundamental concepts in flow theory, flow control, observation and measurement techniques, and scheduled transportation. Applied to various modes of transportation. Emphasis on logic rather than recipe-oriented practice.

CIVENGR 571

Principles of planning, evaluation, selection, adoption, financing, and implementation of alternative urban transportation systems; formulation of community goals and objectives, inventory of existing conditions; transportation modeling--trip generation, distribution, modal choice, assignment, technological characteristics and operation of modern transit and other movement systems.

CIVENGR 579

Current problems and research developments in transportation, highways, traffic engineering, and transportation planning and systems analysis.

CIVENGR 574

Traffic data collection studies; measures of effectiveness and evaluation of traffic system performance; design and application of traffic control devices; design of traffic signal systems; operational controls and traffic management strategies.