Discipline： Transportation Engineering

Introduction to the Course (including objectives and requirements)

As a specialized optional course for the masters, thiscourse is to be taught in English. The course aims to give comprehensiveintroduction to basic theories and application of quantitative analysis intransportation system. Through specific research projects, after-class Readingand class discussion, the course can stimulate students’ research interest;cultivate students’ research ability in related fields.

Traffic modeling procedure, least square regression,behavioral modeling and Time Series Analysis; in the class,the research samples will be combined and discussion will be held. Emphasiswill be put on students’ independent ability to do related research. Meanwhile,this course will train students’ English ability in an all-around way. By agreat amount of reading on English literature, this course can improvestudents’ reading ability in scientific papers, meanwhile enabling students tohave a preliminary understanding of the international situation in the field oftraffic safety.

Introduction to the Main Instructor:

Yibing Wang, graduated from Department of Automationin Tsinghua University; Worked in Dynamical System Simulation Laboratory inDepartment of Manufacturing Engineering and Management,TechnicalUniversity of Crete from 1999 to 2007; Participated in many highway trafficmonitoring projects in Europe and cooperated with many national professionalresearch teams from Greece, Germany, Britain, Belgium, Italy and so on; joinedDepartment of Civil Engineering in Monash University; Worked as subeditor ofITS AMERICA and reviewer of TRB Part C; Research direction includes:

• Traffic Flow Theory

• Transportation Network modeling and Simulation

• Highway Transportation Real-Time Monitoring

• Analysis of Traffic Stream Characteristics andEnvironmental Influence

• Import and Speed Control of the Highway Ramp

• Urban Traffic Signal Control

• Dynamic Traffic Assignment and Real-time RouteGuidance

• Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Automated Highway Systems

• Automobile and Infrastructure Integration Program

• Application of ITS in Automatic Control Method

• Application of ITS in Communications Technology

ChenShuyan (1967.2-), now professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of TransportationEngineering of SEU, obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from theDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering in 1992 and her Doctor’s Degreeof Engineering form the Institute of Systematic Engineering of SEU in 2003.From Oct. 2005 –Sep. 2006, she went to Germany for further study in theInstitute of Machine Learning of the Department of Computer Science of PheraeCastle University; Sep. 2008 –Jan. 2009, she did her research in the School ofCivil Engineering of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands; inJan.2009, she came back to teach in the School of Transportation Engineering ofSEU. Mainly specializing in the research on traffic signal control, intelligentcomputing, traffic flow prediction, intelligent disposal of traffic informationand auto-detection of traffic accidents, she has taken charge of some projectsfunded by NNSF, the Scientific and Technological Project of Overseas Studentsof National Ministry of Personnel, National Post-doctoral Scientific Foundationas well as Jiangsu Post-doctoral Scientific Foundation. In 2009, she got thesecond prize for excellent scientific research achievements (progress inscience and technology) of the institutions of higher learning of the Ministryof Education.

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