The course addresses the general principles of urban mobility professional training:
• Basic knowledge of urban road traffic management.
• Basic knowledge of junction design (traffic & geometrical layouts).
• Basic knowledge of urban roads design.
• Use of information technology for traffic engineering.
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
• Explain the structuring principles of urban road networks.
• Describe the content of a traffic study.
• Use of appropriate calculation formulas.
• Analyze the results of a traffic study.
• Calculate various options for managing urban mobility.
The course is intended to present and debate the following subject during classes:
• Generalities concering modes of transportation: classifications, characteristics
• Trips evaluation principles
• Traffic surveys/inquiries
• Traffic engineering notions
• Junctions
• Trips management at junctions
• Trips modelling
The seminar proposes that students prepare a traffic study for designing an urban development:
• evaluating the number of trips
• drawing up the trip management solutions for the urban development interior area
and for connecting that area with the existing road network outside its boundaries
The course consists of lectures and debate on the subjects mentioned above. The class is tought using multimedia & online tools.
During seminars students work individually or in small groups of 1-3 people to draw up proposals for urban development and its connection to the existing road network.
Showing an individual contribution by documenting a synthesis on a chosen subject from the course contents – 50%.
Presentation & analysis of the practical application at the end of the semester – 50%.
At the beginning of the semester, students receive in digital format the following references.
Main referrences:
1. „Trafic si infrastructuri de circulatie” - note curs 2020 - Conf.dr.ing. Valentin Anton
2. „Inginerie de Trafic” - Dorobantu St & Racanel I. – I.C.B. ed.1980
3. „Highway Capacity Manual”2010 - Transportation Research Board, National Academies
4. „Tranportation Systems and Service Policy” – John Schoon – Chaptan & Hall – 1996.
5. „Intersection Capacity Utilization” - Trafficware Corporation – USA, 2003.
Additional referrences:
1. „Signalized Intersections: Informational Guide” – Report No. FHWA-HRT-04-091
2. „Signal Timing Process - Final Report” – FHWA no. Dtfh61-01-c-00183
3. „ Wikipedia.org” – The Free Enciclopedia
