Transport Models and Transport Excesses

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Department of Transport Engineering and Transportation Planning

Synopsis:

Parameters of the traffic flow and methods for their measurement. Models of the traffic flow, communications load, line and urban systems. Theory of queues, shock waves. Quality of transport and its assessment. Statistical characteristics of transport. Transport excesses, their analysis, the causes, identify and minimize the consequences. Improving of transport safety and fluency.

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Introduction to transportation engineering.

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Study Objective:

Description of the traffic flow behaviour under conditions of stable and unstable. Introduction to models of the traffic flow. Indentification of traffic excesses and minimization of the consequences. Prevention of traffic excesses, list of resources for increasing the fluency and transport safety.

Study materials:

Kocourek, J.: Metodika sledování dopravních konfliktů, Praha, ČVUT v Praze, 2011

Kočárková D., Kocourek J., Jacura M.: Základy dopravního inženýrství, Praha, ČVUT v Praze, 2009

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

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