Course information

Traffic Management and Road Safety is part of 9th semester courses. It is compulsory for the students at the Transportation Planning and Engineering cycle. The course includes basic definitions of traffic management (management of traffic flow, vehicles traffic restrictions, peak hours traffic reduction, preferential treatment of high occupancy vehicles, pedestrian traffic, bicycles traffic, advanced driver-assistance systems, autonomous vehicles) and road safety (data collection and analysis, correlation of accidents with road environment, correlation of accidents with user and vehicle characteristics, identification of high risk sites, analysis of high risk sites locations and related countermeasures, evaluation of countermeasures). The course also includes traffic counts by the students. The course foresees four hours of theory and exercises every week. During the exercises practical examples of applications are developed and in general the overall understanding of the course is assisted. It should be also noted that there is no clear distinction between theory and exercises, since the theory relies on exercises and exercises deal with questions about the theory. Students consist of one class.