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• Title: 101-0416-10L Road Transport Systems

Road Transport Systems

Introduction to road transport systems and technologies

• Brief socio-economic context
• Recent development in road transport technologies
• Topics in road transport systems

Traffic demand: current state and future trends

• Modes, types of transport, trip purpose, origin-destinations
• Intermodal transport
• Design volumes
• Road congestion
• Car sharing
• Autonomous vehicles

Traffic flow theory fundamentals

• Vehicle trajectories and time-space diagrams
• Traffic stream definitions
• Traffic fundamental diagram
• Waves

Queuing theory fundamentals

• Node dynamics
• Queuing diagrams (cumulative plots)
• Serial systems

Simple applications of traffic flow theory and queuing theory

• Traffic operation at signalized intersections
• Traffic operation with an accident

Sustainable transportation and public transport

• Total transport costs and economic analysis
• Environmental impacts: energy consumption, emissions, etc.
• Sustainable transportation
• Vehicle quota system and road space rationing
• Investment in public transport
• Bus priority strategies

Design fundamentals

• System components: links and nodes
• Horizontal alignment
• Vertical alignment
• Simple intersections

Pavement, infrastructure and road safety

• Pavement
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Safety statistics and trends
• Risk, exposure and safety
• Safety data and evaluation

Intelligent road transport monitoring

• Measurement technologies (loop detectors, radars, etc.)
• Floating car data with mobile phones
• Analysis and monitoring with traffic data (FD, MFD, 3d-MFD, etc.)
• Case study with Zurich

Traffic management and control

• Special lanes
• Speed limit and variable speed control
• Re-routing
• Congestion pricing
• Perimeter control
• Parking management