JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-requisites

Transportation Engineering

UNIT - I

Transport Planning Process: Scope – interdependence of land use and traffic – systems approach to transport planning – Transport surveys – definition of study area – zoning survey - types and methods – inventory on transport facilities - inventory of land use and economic activities.

UNIT - II

Trip Generation: Factors governing trip generation and attraction rates – multiple linear regression analysis – category analysis – critical appraisal of techniques.

UNIT - III

Trip Distribution Methods: Presentation of trip distribution data - PA matrix to OD matrix – Growth factor methods - gravity model and its calibration – opportunity model

UNIT - IV

Modal split analysis: Influencing factors – Earlier modal split models: Trip end type and trip interchange type – limitations – Disaggregate mode choice model – Logit model - binary choice situations – multinomial logit model – model calibration

UNIT - V

Route assignment: Description of highway network – route choice behaviour – shortest path algorithm - assignment techniques – all nothing assignment – multi path assignment – capacity restrained assignment – diversion curves

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Kadiyali, LR (1987), Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.
• 2. Hutchinson, B.G. (1974). Principles of Urban Transport Systems Planning. McGraw Hill Book Company, New York.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Papacostas, C. S., and Prevedouros, P.D. (2002). Transportation Engineering and Planning. 3rd Edition, Prentice - Hall of India Pvt Ltd.
• 2. NPTEL videos on Urban Transportation Planning, Dr. V. Tamizh Arasan, IIT Madras
• 3. Paul.H. Wright (1995), Transportation Engineering – Planning & Design, John Wiley & Sons, New york.
• 4. John W Dickey (1995), Metropolitan Transportation Planning, Tata McGraw-Hill publishing company Ltd, New Delhi.