Traffic demand management methods | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Traffic demand management methods (17.DSIM4)

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Traffic Engineering (Year: 2, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Traffic Planning, Regulation and Safety
ECTS	10

Introduction to basic terms and characteristics of traffic infrastructure, as well as basic aspects and technologies for effective management of traffic infrastructure emphasising road network.

Acquiring basic knowledge on role of traffic infrastructure, advanced methods for managing traffic infrastructure and developing abilities for application of accumulated theoretical knowledge to solving practical problems.

Basic terms in traffic infrastructure: role, purpose and significance. Technical and technological base of traffic infrastructure. Organizational, economic, information and technical aspects of managing traffic infrastructure. Digital models of road infrastructure (structure, description standards, applications). Digital models of road network. Road network managing systems.

Lectures, consolations. Part of the teaching is realised in a classical manner in classrooms, and part in the form of e-lectures (e-lectures are realizes through video conferencing).

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
K. Button, D. Hensher	Handbook of Transport System and Traffic Control	2001	Pergamon	English
H.J. van Zuylen	Traffic control for intersection	2002	TUD	English
Rentfrey B. Potts, Robert M. Oliver	Flows in Transportation Networks	1972	Academic Pres, New York and London	English
S. Ghosh, T. Lee	Intelligent Transport System Handbook	2005	Taylor & Francis	English
M. Bell	Transportation Networks: Recent Methodological Advances	1999	Pergamon Press	English
D. Teodorovic	Transportation Networks	1986	Gordon and Breach Science Publishers	English