Traffic engineering
CIVIL-349
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COURSE:
The course takes place every Thursday, 2:15 pm - 6:00 pm
- Room: ODY -1 0020 (lecture & exercise)
EXAM SCHEDULE:
- Midterm: 06/11/2025 (2:15 - 3:45 pm)
- Final : 18/12/2025 (2:15 - 5:00 pm)
LABS:
For the completion of the two laboratories, students will work in groups and will prepare one group report for each lab assignment. Students are kindly requested to form groups of 4 or 5 and register them in the provided tool (see below). PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRESS "SUBMIT" TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENTS.
MOOC:
https://courseware.epfl.ch/courses/course-v1:EPFL+transport-systems+2019/about
Please register for the online course "Intro to Traffic Flow Modeling and Intelligent Transport Systems" (linked above). This course, created by our team, provides students with video lectures and exercises on several transportation related topics. During the semester, you will be asked to watch some of the video lectures and discuss the material taught in the classroom or ask questions.
The same course also exists on edx.org platform (see here), where discussion forums are also available. Please feel free to register as audit students (no payment needed).
- Course syllabus (updated) (File)
- Announcements (Forum)
- Forum (Forum)
- Lab group choice (Group choice)
Introduction to transportation systems, queueing theory
Welcome to CIVIL-349 Traffic Engineering.
You can start forming groups of 5 or 4 students for working together on labs 1 and 2, using the tool in the Moodle section above. Please do so before Monday, Sept. 22. Afterwards we will complete the group assignment for students who have not joined a group.
Traffic flow variables, fundamental diagram (MOOC)
- You are kindly requested to watch the video lectures entitled "Traffic Flow Variables" and "Fundamental Diagram" of the Week 1 of the online course "Intro to Traffic Flow Modeling and Intelligent Transport Systems" (find the links to register for this course at the top of this page).
No lecture will be held between 14:00 and 16:00.
- Exercise session will begin at 16:15, where you can discuss and ask questions regarding the material presented in the video lectures.
Input-out diagrams, traffic flow modeling: LWR Theory
- Apart from the standard problem sheet this week, you can find additional practise tasks in the video lecture of the MOOC course.
- Slides week 3a (File)
- Slides week 3b (File)
- Solution of Practice Quiz 2 - MOOC (File)
- Solution of Practice Quiz 1 - MOOC (File)
- Exercise 3 (File)
- Exercise 3 solution (File)
Lab 1: Studying traffic flow properties through a dataset of real vehicle trajectories
- Time: 14:15 - 18:00
- No lecture will be held this week - both the lecture and exercise slots are dedicated to group work on Lab 1.
- Format: Work in groups on the Lab 1 tasks. TAs will be be available throughout to answer questions.
- Setup requirement: Each group must be able to run Jupyter Notebooks on at least one personal laptop.
If this isn’t possible, please inform Marko by Wednesday, 1 October 2025.
Car-following models, traffic monitoring and data collection
- Slides week 4a - car-following models (File)
- Traffic Monitoring_A (File)
- Traffic Monitoring_B (File)
- Paper on lane-changing model: Pages 87, 88 up to Equation 4. (URL)
- Exercise 4 (File)
- Exercise 4 - files (File)
- Exercise 4 solution (File)
Introduction to on-demand and shared mobility
Guest lecture: Prof. Kenan Zhang (HOMES lab, EPFL)
Guest lecture: Prof. Kenan Zhang (HOMES lab, EPFL)
Break
Merge dynamics: spatial extend of queues, bottlenecks, ramp metering
- Slides week 6 (File)
- Exercise 6 (File)
- Example Merge (File)
- Lab 2 presentation (File)
- Exercise 6 - Solution (File)
- Notes (File)
- An interesting traffic simulation to observe diffe... (Text and media area)
Midterm exam and Lab 2 data collection
- 14:15 - 15:45: Midterm exam in ODY -1 0020 and ODY 0 16. Your "cheat sheets" will be collected at the end of the exam.
- Bus ticket distribution and Lab 2 data collection
- Please remember to bring your Camipro card for the... (Text and media area)
- Seating - midterm (File)
- Example of Midterm Short Questions (Note: T/F #2 is not part of this year) (File)
- Lab 2: Introduction (Text and media area)
- Lab 2 Introduction (File)
- Lab 2: Data collection (Text and media area)
- Lab 2 bus lines for groups (File)
- bus 705 stops (for printing) (File)
- bus 31 stops dir Renens (for printing) (File)
- bus 31 stops dir Venoge (for printing) (File)
- bus 705 stops (excel) (File)
- bus 31 stops dir Renens (excel) (File)
- bus 31 stops dir Venoge (excel) (File)
Introduction to public transit
- Notes for public transport (no slides) - lecture on board (File)
- Exercise 7 (File)
- Exercise 7 - Solution (File)
Lab 2
- Time: 14:15 - 18:00
- No lecture will be held this week - both the lecture and exercise slots are dedicated to group work on Lab 2.
- Format: Work in groups on the Lab 2 tasks. TAs will be be available throughout to answer questions.
- Lab 2: Description (Text and media area)
- Lab2 Description (File)
- Lab 2: Data (copy) (Text and media area)
- Lab2_Compiled_Data (File)
- Lab2_Raw_Data (File)
- Missing data (File)
- Bus_705_updated_data (File)
Guest Lecture: Franco Tufo (Citec)
- 14:15-16:00: Guest Lecture by Franco Tufo, CEO Citec
- 16:15-18:00: Work on Lab 2
Fundamentals of signal design: Part I
- Slides week 12 (File)
- Exercise 8 (File)
- Exercise 8 - solution (File)
- Exercise 9 (File)
- Exercise 9 - solution (File)
Fundamentals of signal design: Part II
- Slides week 13 (File)
- Exercise 10 (File)
- Exercise 10 - solution (File)
- Traffic Signals - Example (File)
Final exam (14:15 - 17:00)
- Please come to your assigned room at 14:00h so that we can start the exam on time.
- You are allowed to bring two A4 sheets with handwritten notes, i.e., maximum four sides in total. There can be penalties in case of direct copy-paste of material not produced by yourself.
- Please remember to bring non-programming calculators (scientific calculators are allowed) and rulers.
- Please remember to bring your Camipro card for the... (copie) (Text and media area)
- Final exam seating (File)