Urban Traffic Engineering And Streetscape Design

Brief History of Urban Traffic Engineering; Quality of the Public Realm, Streetscape and Environmental Capacity; Design, Visual Cues and Safe Interaction Between Road Users; Traffic Flow, Speed and Density; Lighthill-Whitham-Roberts (LWR) Traffic Flow Theory; Queues, Stops and Delay; Crossing, Merging and Gap Distributions; Gap Acceptance Theory and Critical Gap Definitions; Links, Nodes and Networks; First-In-First-Out (FIFO) and Shortest Path Algorithms; Layout Of Streets and Junctions; Lane Markings, Stop Lines, Tactile Strips and Signage; Objectives of Traffic Control (Efficiency, Accessibility, Safety, Environment - EASE); Fixed Time Traffic Signal Control; Saturation Flow, Effective Green, Cycle Times and Equi-Saturation Green Times; Offsets, Cyclic Flow Profiles and TRANSYT; Vehicle Detectors (Types and Performance); On-Line Signal Control, SCOOT and SCATS; Signalised Pedestrian Crossings (PELICAN, PUFFIN And TOUCAN); Public Transport Priority; Micro-, Meso- and Macroscopic Traffic Simulation; Roadside, Home-Based, Web-Based and Telephone Surveys; Sample Size, Factoring, Data Fusion and Statistical Significance; Conflict Analysis; Safety Audits and Statistics; Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation (CBA And NATA); Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); Case Studies.