COURSE

INTR5100

Traffic Flow Theory

Systems Hub / Intelligent Transportation · 3 Credits

Emergent innovations in autonomy, connectivity and shared mobility are revolutionizing vehicular traffic systems. Developing comprehensive and systematic understandings of traffic dynamics is essential to drive these innovations to reinvent transportation systems. The course covers different aspects of vehicular traffic flow dynamics and how to describe and simulate them with mathematical models. This course starts with how to obtain and interpret traffic flow data, the basis of any quantitative traffic modeling. The second and main part of this course introduces different approaches and models to mathematically describe vehicular traffic flow, and their application in simulation from microscopic to macroscopic level. The last part of this course introduces major applications of traffic flow theory including traffic flow management schemes, mix-autonomy traffic flow modeling and advanced control and sensing strategies by connected and automated vehicles.