JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

• Discuss various principle types of bus and rail transit vehicles, their differing operating Environments and how they affect urban street design.
• Discuss existing guidelines for urban street geometric design for bus and rail transit services.
• Identify specific geometric design considerations, design requirements, and impacts for on- street running bus, LRT and streetcar operations.
• Describe considerations for off-street bus and rail operation including track way width and clearance requirements, street crossings, and access to and from stations.

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand TSM, the need for TSM and the Objectives of TMS.
• Understand the types of TSM strategies.
• Apply a strategy based on a TSM goal or Objectives.
• Recommend methods to manage a transit system to improve its management efficiency.
• Understand transportation demand management (TDM), various TDM strategies, and their applicability.
• Recommend a detailed transport demand management strategy for a transportation system based on a goal or Objective.

UNIT - I

TSM Philosophy: Systems approach to Transportation Planning; Long Term Strategies and Short term Measures; TSM actions – Objectives and Philosophy; Relevance of TSM actions to Indian Urban Context. Broad spectrum of TSM actions. Measures for Improving Vehicular Flow – One Way Streets, Signal Improvements, Transit Stop Relocation, Parking Management, Reversible lanes; Reducing Peak Period Traffic – Staggering of Working hours, Congestion Pricing, differential Toll Policies

UNIT - II

Measures to Promote Transit: Preferential Treatment to High Occupancy Vehicles; Car Pooling; Transit Service Improvement Measures; Transit management Improvement Measures; Transit and Para Transit Integration; Para-transit Role in Urban Areas; Multi-modal coordination.

UNIT - II

Bus Route Network Planning And Management: Types of Bus Route Net works; Suitability for a given Urban Area; Types of Routes – Corridor Routes, Activity Routes and Residential Routes; Issues in Route Network Evaluation – Number of Routes, Length of Routes; Route Alignment Methods; Service Coverage and Accessibility Index.

UNIT - IV

Promotion of Non-Auto Modes: Measures to Promote Non-Auto modes - Pedestrianisation; Bicycle Transportation – Advantages; planning Bicycle facilities – Class I, Class II and Class III Bikeways; Junction Treatments for Cycle Tracks; LOS criteria for Pedestrian and Bicycle facilities.

UNIT - V

Advanced Transit Technologies: Conventional and Unconventional Systems; Rapid Transportation Systems; New Technologies – LRT, Monorail, Automated Highways, Hovercraft; System characteristics and suitability.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Transportation System Management Notes, S.R. Chari, REC, Warangal
• 2. Metropolitan Transportation Planning, John W Dickey, Tata McGraw Hill
• 3. The Bicycle Planning, Mike Hudson, Open Books, UK