Civil / PE Exam
Intelligent Transportation Systems Course Syllabus
1. Course Overview
- Modern techniques to optimize the performance of a transportation system with emphasis on traffic networks in congested urban areas
- Intelligent Transportation Systems; analysis of advanced traffic management and information systems
- History of ITS; ITS user services and subsystems; ITS interoperability and system architecture
- Enabling technologies for ITS
- Introductory concepts in telecommunication technologies for ITS
- Introductory concepts in control theory for transportation systems
- Traffic flow modelling; static and dynamic transportation network analysis
- Incident detection; freeway control; surface street network control
2. Textbooks (latest editions recommended)
- Cascetta, E. Transportation Systems Analysis: Models and Applications