JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

This course covers the fundamentals of land use theory and invites students to apply these theories to a specific neighborhood design. The course surveys major historical and contemporary trends in land use, and introduces emerging theories on the future forces affecting the development and functioning of urban regions. We will discuss cities at multiple scales and will apply our evolving understanding to development at the neighborhood scale in locations in the Vancouver area. The course is designed to provide a collaborative, interactive, and applied and community based environment for the development of spatial thinking and basic land use modeling. This is a required course for Urban Design students and is a foundation for anyone interested in gaining a basic literacy of Urban Design. The course is an entry point into the field from which students can build deeper knowledge and praxis with additional coursework and focused research.

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to

• Understand the fundamentals of land use theory.
• Apply land use theories for urban region development.
• Apply evolving understanding of development to provide a collaborative, interactive, & applied environment for development.
• Develop travel demand models

UNIT - I

Land Use and Transportation Engineering: Transportation modeling in Planning; Models and their role, Characteristics of Transport demand and supply, Equilibrium of supply and demand, Modeling and decision making, Issues in Transportation modeling and structure of the classic transport model.

UNIT - II

Land Use Transportation and Activity Models: Introduction to Land Use Planning; Relation between Transportation and Land Use Planning; The economic base mechanism and allocation mechanism; Spatial allocation and employment interrelationship; Garin Lowry models.; Activity modeling

UNIT - III

General Travel Demand Models and Regional Transport Models: Aggregate, Disaggregate models ; Behavioral models; Recursive and direct demand Models; Linear, Non-Linear models; Logit, discriminant and probit models; Mode split models - Abstract mode and mode specific models. Regional Transport Models: Factors affecting goods and passenger traffic; Prediction of traffic; Growth factor models; Time function iteration models; internal volume forecasting models.

UNIT - IV

Regional Network Planning: Problems in Developing Countries, Network Characteristics - Circuitry, Connectivity, Mobility, Accessibility and Level of Service Concepts - Network Structures and Indices – Network Planning – Evaluation - Graph Theory – Cut sets – Flows & Traversing – Optimum Network - Inter-modal Co-ordination. – Rural Road Network Planning.; User equilibrium concepts

UNIT - V

Advanced Spatial analysis Modelling: Applications of Artificial Neural networks, Cellular automata, Fuzzy logic systems, Genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence concepts to transportation Modelling

REFERENCES:

• 1. Modelling Transport by Jhan De Dios Ortuzar. Luis E. Willumsen. John Wiley& Sons. 1970/1975.
• 2. Urban Development Models - Ed. By R. Baxter, M. Echenique and J. Owers; The Institute of Transportation Engineering, University of California.
• 3. Economic Models and Economic Forecast - Robert S, Pindyek, Daniel L. Rubin Field; McGraw Hill.
• 4. Land Use Transportation Planning Notes - S. R. Chari, NIT Warangal.
• 5. Regional and Urban Models - A.G . Wilson; Pion, London.
• 6. Urban Modeling - Michael Batty.
• 7. Behavioral Travel Demand Models - Peter R. Stopher ARNIM. H. MEYBURG.
• 8. Introduction to Transportation Engineering and Planning, Morlok EK, McGraw Hill M. Tech – I Year II Sem. (Transportation Engineering)