Course Module: Transportation Operation and Technology
Courses:
1. Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems;
2. Traffic Control;
3. Introductory transportation network.
Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Introduce the framework of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and the functions of the ITS sub-systems
- Discuss the techniques and analytical tools in ITS, including GPS, digital map, wireless communication, bus arrival time prediction, transfer information etc
- Discuss how to design an ITS system for users’ requirement
- Discuss the technologies of cloud computing and internet of things, and its applications in traffic and transportation problems
Traffic Control
- Introduce the basic concept and framework of traffic control
- Discuss how to collect traffic data for analysis
- Discuss the design of traffic signal for urban arterials and networks
- Introduce the simulation software for traffic control
Introductory transportation network
- Transportation network problems: trip generation, demand matrix estimation, traffic assignment, network design (with traffic signal, arterial, road expansion etc.)
- Introduction to related model development in transportation network
- Problem formulation in mathematical model
Core ability
By the completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Be familiar with the framework of ITS and its sub-systems
- Collect and analyze traffic data
- Analyze and produce required traffic information
- Analyze traffic problem, and solve the problem with appropriate technologies
- Analyze the reason of traffic congestion, and solve the problem using traffic control technologies
Job market
- Civil servants
- Engineers in consultancy companies
- Engineers in Information Technology companies in traffic and transportation related industry (e.g. Navigation system)
- Information Technology related industry
Job title: Professional Program Management
Job nature: Project planner, customer communication, specification and service proposal, job assignment,
engineer coordination, progress evaluation, performance evaluation
Job title: System analyst
Job nature: Problem analysis, specification of system software and hardware, system architecture, data
presentation, system performance, design and development of interface for front and back office management
Job title: Traffic and transportation engineer
Job nature: Program analysis, data collection, solution design, system development, integration of software
and hardware