organized by the Institute of Thermomechanics of the CAS, v. v. i.,
every first Wednesday of the month at 10:00
in the Conference Room B in the main building of the Institute of Thermomechanics of the CAS, v. v. i. (see directions)
 

Contact persons: Dr. Radek Kolman, Dr. Hanuš Seiner

 

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 10:00
 

 

Lecture outline:
History of traffic science is relatively short. Generally, it is meant that the first scientific article is the essay of Professor Bruce Greenshields dated to 1934. The factual beginning of systematic scientific discipline (called Transportation Science) is the year 1992, when the field accelerated by many famous publications. Nowadays Transportation Science is very well anchored in the portfolio of scientific disciplines (the associated MIF is 1.377). For the purposes of this seminar talk we choose a theme of predictions for statistical properties of traffic flows and detection of surprising relations in traffic microstructure.

In this talk we will show that macroscopic self-organization of traffic streams (e.g. spontaneous traffic congestions) is projected into evolution of stochastic properties detected for vehicular micro-quantities. Furthermore, we will demonstrate that there exists a smart and uncomplicated way how to predict such microscopic effects.