After completing this course, the student should be able:

1. Using and describing appropriate transport studies terminology;
2. Gaining insight into the factors that account for developments in traffic and transport and being able to address traffic and transport issues from various different perspectives (economy, psychology, geography);
3. Tracing back traffic-related issues to the interaction between traffic demand and supply;
4. Implementing a 4-step macroscopic traffic model and understanding the influence of corresponding model coefficients;
5. Using relevant indicators to describe the performance of the traffic system;
6. Quantitatively analyzing, interpreting and evaluating traffic data and model results;

This is a part of Module 3, Traffic and Transport of the Bachelor Civil Engineering. See here for the complete description of this module.

• Traffic and infrastructure: From various perspectives (e.g. economic, psychological and geographic), concepts and theories are introduced that deal with traffic, transportation, and the necessary infrastructure.
• Traffic demand model: This component deals with models for estimating the demand for transport. The emphasis will be on the 4-step model, in which the four steps – trip generation, trip distribution, transport mode and route choice & assignment – are in the traffic model used during the project.
• Data analysis: An introduction of techniques and concepts that are essential for analysing traffic data and interpreting the results.