IOE 517/EECS 509 Traffic Modeling

Prerequisites: IOE 310 and 315, or IOE 472, or IOE 479, or Ins Per

Time: TTh 3:10-4:25, 200 IOE Bld

Instructor:

Professor Robert L Smith
268 IOE Bldg.
Phone: 763-2060
E-mail: rlsmith@umich.edu

Course Description: This is a course on traffic modeling and its analysis in the context of IVHS (Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems). Those aspects of classic traffic theory relevant to IVHS are presented including traffic flow and signalized intersections. However the emphasis will be on applying the models and techniques of operations research to the optimization via route guidance and signal control of large scale traffic networks.

Textbook: None.

References:

Denos C. Gazis, Editor, Traffic Science, Wiley, NY, 1974.

Renfrey B. Potts and Robert M. Oliver, Flows in Transportation Networks, Academic Press, NY, 1972.

Yosef Sheffi, Urban Transportation Networks, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.


Grading Policy: Exam 1 40% (Th Oct 27)
Exam 2 40% (Tu Dec 13)
Homework 20%

Topic (lectures) Reference Reading

Introduction (1) P&O: 1-5, S: 1.1-1.5

Traffic Link Flow

Traffic Flow, concentration, speed, and headways (2) G: 1.I - 1.II

Light and Moderate Traffic Densities (1) G: 1.III

Heavy Traffic [Macroscopic flow and Microscopic
car following models] (2) G: 1.IV - 1.VI

Traffic Intersection Delay G: 2.I - 2.II

Isolated Intersections
Gap Acceptance (1) G: 2.III

Vehicle and Pedestrian Delay (1) G: 2.IV - 2.VI

Signalized Intersection (2) G: 2.VII

System of Intersections G: 3.I - 3.II

Maximum Through-Band Synchronization (1) G: 3.III - 3.IV

Oversaturated Systems including spill-back (1) G: 3.V

Traffic Networks

Network Models (1) P & O: 6 - 11

Traffic Assignment P & O: 13

Minimum path algorithms including A*
(static and dynamic cases) (3) P & O : 14

System and user optimality (2) P & O: 16-17

Equilibrium Models and their solution (2) S: 3.1 - 3.6, 4.3, 5.2

Iterative heuristics (1) S: 5.1

Traffic Data Generation

Trip Generation (1) G: 4.I - 4.II, S: 13.2

Trip Distribution (1) G: 4.II, P & O: 19-25
(synthetic O/D generation) S: 7.1 - 7.4, 13.3 -13.4