CIV1532H: Fundamentals of ITS and Traffic Management

This course focuses on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) with emphasis on Advanced Traffic Control and Management Systems (ATMS) and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in ATMS. Topics include: Overview and Introduction to ITS; Traffic Flow Modeling for ITS: Macroscopic, Microscopic and Mesoscopic; Transportation Networks Modeling and Traffic Assignment; Genetic Algorithms (GA) for Optimization (Artificial Intelligence Part I); Applications of GA: Emergency Evacuation Optimization, Origin-Destination; Estimation, Dynamic Congestion Pricing; Artificial Neural Networks (Artificial Intelligence Part II); Applications of NN: Automated Incident Detection (AID), Short-Term Traffic Flow; Forecasting Traffic Control and Optimization Theoretical Primer; Reinforcement Learning (Artificial Intelligence Part III); Introduction to Deep Learning (Deep NN + RL); Freeway Traffic Control and Optimization; Street Traffic Control and Optimization. Other Research Topics (time permitting), e.g., Modelling and Exploiting Vehicle Automation and Connectivity for 21st Century Traffic Control.

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