Introduction to Transportation and Distribution Systems (55-028) - Bar-Ilan University
General
- Spring 2017 - Friday, 08:00-11:00 and 11:00-14:00.
- Syllabus.

Course Outline
- General information (PDF in Hebrew)
- Introduction (PDF in Hebrew)
- Basic concepts & traffic Flow
- Java Simulation of traffic flow
- Traffic flow theory
- Models & Tools
- Transportation planning (PDF in Hebrew)
- Graphs and networks - models and tools (PDF in Hebrew)
- Spanning trees (PDF in Hebrew)
- The shortest path problem (PDF in Hebrew)
- The travelling salesman problem, the Chinese mailman problem and the vehicle routing problem (PDF in Hebrew)
- Network flow (PDF in Hebrew)
- Facility location (PDF in Hebrew)
- Transportation planning (PDF in Hebrew)
- GIS
- Introduction to GIS (PDF in Hebrew)
- Introduction to geographic databases (PDF in Hebrew)
- Networks and basic network analysis (PDF in Hebrew)

GIS Labs
Part of the course is introduction with ArcView, an ESRI GIS system.
- Labs location: Building 605, room 201.
- Introduction to ArcView:
- General introduction to ArcView
- General introduction with the Network Analysis module

Exercises
The exercises constitute 30% of the final grade. The exercises must be submitted two lessons before the end of the semester.
- Traffic Flow Theory, Transportation Planning Models and Tools - Exercises.
- GIS
- Principles of GIS systems - exercises, files, presentation.
- Network Analysis and Shortest Path - exercises, Files, prsentation.
- Network Construction and Distribution Networks - exercises, files, presentation.
- Principles of GIS systems - exercises, files, presentation.
- Exercises grades:

Exam
The exam constitutes 70% of the final grade. In order to pass the course you must pass the exam with a minimum grade of 60.
Exam's Date: unknown at this stage.
The exam is with open material.
Exams from previous years can be found on the Student Union website.

Additional Material
- Deliberately blocking traffic (Hebrew)
- Minimum spanning tree (Wikipedia, the free enceclopedia, Hebrew)
- Description of Dijkstra's algorithm (from "Mastering Algorithms With C", O'Reilly 1999)
- Dijkstra's algorithm
- The Floyd-Warshall algorithm
- The Ford-Fulkerson algorithm
- Proof of the correctness of Dijkstra's algorithm

Additional Material - Books Available Online
- Bertsimas D. and Tsitsiklis J, Simulated Annealing, Statistical Science, 1993, Vol. 8, No. 1, 10-15
- Graph Theory With Applications
