Handbook

This course offers students an advanced understanding of the field of traffic engineering and congestion management, with a focus on traffic stream characteristics, stochasticity in transport systems and queuing theory to address congestion and delay minimisation. The course covers topics related to the analysis, design and evaluation of traffic congestion management systems using queuing theory including data collection and analysis methods, simulation techniques and stochastic process techniques used for modelling queuing systems. The main topics include an introduction to queuing theory, discussion of common queuing models, application of queuing models in traffic flow, and tools required to manage and analyse big volume of real-world data. The focus is on the application of queuing theory to vehicle flow at traffic intersections in real-world settings. In addition, it focusses on applications to traffic flow using real-world data to constrain the models presented in the course material.