Fundamentals of traffic operations and control
CIVIL-457
Media
Wednesday 12.15 – 4.00 pm, Lecture room: CH B331
- Syllabus 2025 (File)
- Announcements (Forum)
- Discussions (Forum)
- Lab groups (Group choice)
- Review (MOOC videos) (Folder)
8 September - 14 September
In this week's lecture, we will i) introduce Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams (MFD), ii) 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!
- Revision Notes of Bachelor Course (in French) (File)
- Book Chapter (Review of Bachelor course) (URL)
- Slides Week 1a (File)
- Exercise 1 - Shockwave theory (File)
- Solution of exercise 1 - Shockwave theory (File)
15 September - 21 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. 17 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)
22 September - 28 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)
29 September - 5 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 31, 2025.
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)
- Exercise 4 - On-demand transportation (File)
- Solution of exercise 4 - On-demand transportation (File)
- Slides of Macroscopic simulations and control of urban air mobility systems (File)
- Exercice 5 - Macroscopic simulations and control of urban air mobility systems (File)
- Solution of exercice 5 - Macroscopic simulations and control of urban air mobility systems (File)
20 October - 26 October
October Vacation
28 October - 3 November
- Slides_Bus-RH (File)
- Slides Rebalancing (File)
- Midterm prep (File)
- Reading: Lecture 1_part II (File)
4 November - 10 November
Midterm exam
Exercise session: Introduction to lab 2
The deadline for the submission of lab 2 is January 5, 2026.
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)
- Paper_parking (File)
- Paper_Pricing (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.
- Slides of Advanced Monitoring Systems for traffic and mobility (File)
- Exercice 7 - Vehicle Re-Identification (File)
- Solution of exercice 7 - Vehicle Re-Identification (File)
9 December - 15 December
This week's lecture on Adaptive traffic signal control will be given by Dr. Jack Haddad.
- Slides for Traffic Signal Control (File)
- Exercise Signal Control (File)
- Exercise Solution Signal Control (File)
2 December - 8 December
This week's lecture on Traffic Control will be given by Dr. Kouvelas Anastasios.
- Slides of Freeway control – On-ramp metering (File)
- Slides of Mainline freeway control and VSL (File)
- Exercise 8 - Bus bunching (Folder)
- Solution of exercise 8 - Bus bunching (Folder)