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C E 422, Transportation Planning
   

 Description:

  • Transportation planning, programming, and management, impacts on energy consumption and air quality. Modelling methods, sampling, data collection, and survey design.

Prerequisites: C E 221W and at least 3 credits in statistics.

Texts:

  • Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering, Papacostas & Prevedouros, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall.
  • Modelling Transport, Ortuzar and Willumsen, 1st edition, Wiley.

TOPICS

  1. Overview of transportation planning and modeling
    • Mobility, Congestion, Efficiency, Equity, and Air Quality
    • Urban Systems and Transportation Systems
    • Travel Demand and Transport Supply
    • Methods of Analysis
    • Examples of Proposed Solutions
  2. Transportation plans and programs
    • Country-wide Planning
    • Statewide Planning
    • Regional Planning
    • Metropolitan and Local Planning
    • STIP-TIP and the ISTEA
    • Planning within ISTEA
  3. Review of probability, statistics, and regression methods
    • Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
    • Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions
    • Statics Basic Definitions
    • The Linear Model
    • Dummy Variables
  4. Notions of sampling and design of transport surveys
    • Sample Frame
    • Sample Size
    • Random, Stratified and Judgmental Samples
    • Weighing Methods
    • Design of Questionnaires
    • Home Interviews and Field Surveys
    • Trip Diaries
  5. Urban transportation planning systems (UTPS, MINUTP, EMME2, TRIPS)
    • The Urban Transportation Planning Process
    • The Urban Transportation Planning System
    • Microcomputer Applications
  6. Trip generation modeling
    • Aggregate Models
    • Disaggregate Models
    • Non-linear Models
  7. Trip distribution modeling
    • Gravity-type Models
    • Intervening Opportunities Model
  8. Modal split and discrete choice models
    • Modal Split Models
    • Utilitarian Discrete Choice Models
  9. Traffic assignment algorithms, linear programming, langrange multiplier methods
    • Introduction to Mathematical Programming
    • The Langrange Multiplier Method
    • Equilibrium Traffic Assignment
    • System Optimum Method
    • User Optimum Method
  10. Congestion management and air quality modeling
    • Air Quality Modelling
    • Mobile Source Emissions Control
    • Mobile Source Emissions Estimation
    • Transportation Affects on Emissions and Air Quality
  11. Transportation demand management
    • Strategies
    • Implementation
    • Impact Measurement
  12. Travel demand analysis
    • Travel Behavior
    • Travel Demand Indicators


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