Fundamentals of traffic operations and control
CIVIL-457
Media
Media
Wednesday 12.15 – 4.00 pm, Meeting room: CM 1120
- Syllabus 2024 (File)
- Announcements (Forum)
- Discussions (Forum)
- Lab groups (Group choice)
- Review (MOOC videos) (Folder)
9 September - 15 September
In this week's lecture, we will i) introduce system monitoring and ITS, ii) introduce Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams (MFD), iii) review some parts of the traffic engineering class.
The lecture will be followed by a 2-hour exercise session on shockwave theory.
Please make sure to download the lectures because opening them in the browser might cause issues to some!
- Review Notes (URL)
- Revision Notes of Bachelor Course (in French) (File)
- Book Chapter (Review of Bachelor course) (URL)
- Week 1a (File)
- Slides Week 1b (File)
- Exercise 1 - Shockwave theory (File)
- Solution of exercise 1 - Shockwave theory (File)
- Week1c_Monitoring (File)
16 September - 22 September
This is a MOOC lecture. Students are requested to watch the following videos: 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.
Class will meet on Sept. 18 at 14:15 to answer any questions from the videos and solve the exercise.
- Slides Week 2.1 (File)
- Slides Week 2.2 (File)
- Slides Week 2.3 (File)
- Video Week 2.1 (MOOC lecture 4.1) (File)
- Video Week 2.2 (MOOC lecture 4.2) (File)
- Video Week 2.3 (MOOC lecture 4.3) (File)
- Exercise 2 - Macroscopic fundamental diagram (File)
- Solution of exercise 2 - Macroscopic fundamental diagram (File)
23 September - 29 September
- Slides of MFD control (File)
- Slides of MFD control (II) (File)
- Additional readings (Folder)
- Exercise 3 - Perimeter control (Folder)
- Solution of exercise 3 - Perimeter control (File)
30 September - 6 October
Some additional reading
Paper 1: link ONLY SECTION 2.1
Paper 2: link ONLY SECTION 3
Paper 3: link ONLY pages 653-654 and Section starting in page 647
Useful resources
How to install MATLAB: link
MATLAB Basic tutorials: link
Python Basic tutorials: link
Please remember to bring your laptops with you to class as you will need them for this lab.
The deadline for the submission of lab 1 is October 29, 2024.
- Slides of Travel demand (File)
- Exercise 4 - Travel demand (File)
- Solution of exercise 4 - Travel Demand (File)
This week's lecture is on i) emissions, ii) introduction to on-demand transport.
- Slides of emissions (File)
- Slides of on-demand transportation (I) (File)
- Emission prediction notes (File)
- Emission prediction highlights (File)
- Exercise 5 - On-demand transportation (File)
- Solution of exercise 5 - On-demand transportation (File)
21 October - 27 October
October Vacation
28 October - 3 November
4 November - 10 November
Midterm exam
Exercise session: Introduction to lab 2
The deadline for the submission of lab 2 is January 6, 2025.
11 November - 17 November
This week's lecture is on i) multi-modal systems, and ii) parking studies.
- Slides of multi-modal systems (File)
- Slides of parking studies (File)
- Exercise 6 - Parking management (File)
- Solution of exercise 6 - Parking management (File)
18 November - 24 November
This is a 4-HOUR LAB SESSION (Lab 2). TAs will be available to answer your questions. Please make sure to bring your laptops.
- Exercise 7 - Crowd-shipping (Folder)
- Solution of exercise 7 - Crowd-shipping (Folder)
- Slides Optimization of multi-modal and multi-purpose transport and logistics systems (File)
2 December - 8 December
This week's lecture is on bus bunching. During the 2nd hour, the two groups will present lab 1 to the rest of the class.
- Slides of bus bunching (File)
- Exercise 8 - Bus bunching (Folder)
- Solution of exercise 8 - Bus bunching (Folder)
9 December - 15 December
This week's lecture on Adaptive traffic signal control will be given by Dr. Jack Haddad. The exercise session will begin at 15:15.
- Slides for Traffic Signal Control (File)
- Exercise Signal Control (File)
- Exercise Solution Signal Control (File)