Department of Traffic Engineering and Logistics

The department has been founded in 1992. It deals with the rules of traffic flows and its controlling by taking into account the management of vehicle fleets. The research programmes as well as the lectures include freight and passenger transport on the road, rail, water- and airway.

Emphases:

• Basics of traffic engineering
• Traffic flow
• Urban traffic control
• Traffic control systems (variable message signs)
• Transport telematics (application of new technologies)
• Transport system management for vehicle fleet / logistics
  (public and freight transport)

The aim of the institute's lectures is to pass on knowledge about complex traffic problems and to handle the development and the assessment of traffic strategies and traffic measures.