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Valid for year : 2009
 
TNK097 Traffic engineering and management, 6 ECTS credits.
/Trafikteknik och trafikstyrning/

For:   ITS   KTS  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 38
Rec. self-study hours: 122

  Area of Education: Technology

Subject area: Transport systems, Communication and Transport Engineering
  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The student shall, after finishing the course, be able to:
  • Formulate and analyse basic traffic flow relations
  • Formulate and use models for simulation of traffic flows
  • Describe the basic notation, theory and models for analysis of capacity at intersections
  • Describe signal setting strategies for isolated and interconnected intersections
  • Make computations of capacities for isolated signalized intersections


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Planning and simulation of traffic systems

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
Organisation:
The course consists of lectures and laborations
Course contents:
  • Traffic flow theory
  • Experiments with macro simulations models
  • Dynamic network loading
  • Traffic management
  • Experiments with dynamic network loading and traffic management
  • Signalized intersections
  • Experiments with capacity computations


Course literature:
Webpage and handouts
Examination:
Hand-in assignments
Laboratory work
 4 ECTS
2 ECTS
 


Course language is English.
Department offering the course: ITN.
Director of Studies: Clas Rydergren
Examiner: Johan Olstam

Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 09/28/2009