ENTR608-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Special Topic in Transport Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

Used for one off courses or individualised study for a student. Please refer to the Director of Transportation Engineering regarding availability.

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING (TMM)

This course can be considered as a complementary course of ENCN261 and ENCN412 at the
undergraduate level. It provides an advanced and deep understanding of traffic control concepts and traffic state estimation methods in urban networks and motorways. The students learn fundamentals to simulate vehicular traffic in microscopic simulation environments and mimic realistic scenarios implementing traffic control strategies.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of the course, students should:

  • be  able  to  estimate  the  traffic  state  variables  of  the  links  and  network  based  on  novel  and conventional estimation methods.
  • know fundamentals of applying AIMSUN and TRANSYT for traffic control and simulation purposes.
  • be able to implement simple control algorithms to control traffic in motorways and urban networks (using AIMSUN; https://www.aimsun.com).
  • compare the network performance under different control strategies.
  • be able to use TRANSYT to optimise signal plans on the urban corridors.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Programme Director.

Timetable Note

This is a block taught course on:

20-21 August and 15-16 October 2018

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Mehdi Ekbatani

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,059.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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