Traffic Engineering

Introductory concepts in traffic engineering and control.

• Vehicle – driver – roadway environment
• Theories of traffic flow
• Application of queuing theory
• Capacity and delay analysis of unsignalized and signalized intersections
• Design optimization of isolated and co-ordinated traffic signal timing plans
• Traffic simulation model calibration and application
• Field data collection and analysis

State-of-practice analysis and design methods.

Suggested Reading Materials

Traffic Engineering. 4th Edition
Roess, R. P. and Prassas, E. S. and McShane, W. R., Prentice Hall, 2011.

Traffic and Highway Engineering. 3rd Edition
Garber, N. J. and Hoel, L. A., Thomson Learning, 2001.

Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis. 4th Edition
Mannering, F.9:26 AM 02/15/2019 L. and Washburn, S. S. and Kilareski, W. P., Wiley, 2008.