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Traffic Engineering Applications for Design of Constructions

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 227-0491/02
Abbreviation DIA
Course title Traffic Engineering Applications for Design of Constructions
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Vladislav Křivda, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- capacity assessment of roads and intersections (incl. complicated types and combinations)
- analysis of conflict situations in road traffic
- automated collection of traffic engineering data
- using of drones in traffic engineering
- modeling of traffic of vehicles and pedestrians in common conditions
- modeling of traffic of vehicles and pedestrians in non-standard situations

E-learning

LMS Moodle (VŠB-TUO): 2270491 Traffic Engineering Applications for Design Constructions

Literature

KUTZ, Myer, ed. Handbook of transportation engineering. Volume I, Systems and operations. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2011. ISBN 978-0-07-161492-4.

KUTZ, Myer, ed. Handbook of transportation engineering. Volume II, Applications and technologies. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2011. ISBN 978-0-07-161477-1.

KNOFLACHER, Hermann. Virus Auto: die Geschichte einer Zerstörung. Wien: Ueberreuter, c2009. ISBN 978-3-8000-7438-9.

TZANAKAKIS, Konstantinos. The railway track and its long term behaviour: a handbook for a railway track of high quality. Berlin: Springer, c2013. ISBN 978-3-642-36050-3.

HCM2010: highway capacity manual. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 2010. ISBN 978-0-309-16077-3 .

Advised literature

PTV VISSIM – User Manual. Karlsruhe: PTV AG Karlsruhe, Germany (in English, German or French)

PTV VISUM – User Manual. Karlsruhe: PTV AG Karlsruhe, Germany (in English, German or French)

Transport planning and traffic engineering. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 978-0-340-66279-3 .

GARBER, Nicholas J. and Lester A. Hoel. Traffic and Highway Engineering, 2009. ISBN 978-1133-60515-7 

RUDIN-BROWN, Christina and Samantha JAMSON, ed. Behavioural adaptation and road safety: theory, evidence, and action. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2013. ISBN 978-1-4398-5667-3.

Ben-Akiva, M. and S. Lerman. Discrete Choice Analysis, MIT Press, 1985.

Meyer, M. and E. Miller. Urban Transportation Planning. McGraw-Hill, 2000.


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