JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives

The course introduces students to the fundamentals of urban transportation

planning and the types of skills and knowledge that transportation planners need. It further familiarizes students with contemporary transportation planning issues and methods of analysis. The course is highly relevant regardless if students intend to focus on transportation itself, or other aspects of urban planning. The basically deals with data collection urban transportation planning. The travel demand issues & planning of demand & supply. To discuss the preparation & evaluation of alternative strategy of transportation facilities. Relationships between transportation and urban land use systems and new tools to address environmental and quality of life impacts of transportation are presented. Transportation investment decisions (or lack thereof) have been held accountable for increased economic prosperity or spiraling economic decline.

Course Outcomes

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

• Identify urban transportation problems.
• Estimate urban travel demand.
• Plan urban transport networks.
• Identify urban transport corridors.
• Prepare urban transportation plans

UNIT - I

Introduction: Role of transportation in the economic development of nations, overview of transport modes, growth trends, National Transport Policy of India – Case studies, transportation planning in the developing world; and comparative international transportation policies; Fundamentals of transportation , Principles of planning, evaluation, selection, adoption, financing, and implementation of alternative urban transportation systems; formulation of community goals and Objectives, inventory of existing conditions; transportation modeling trip generation, distribution, modal choice, assignment

UNIT - II

Data Collection And Inventories: Collection of data – Organization of surveys and Analysis, Study Area, Zoning, Types and Sources of Data, Road Side Interviews, Home Interview Surveys, Commercial Vehicle Surveys, Sampling Techniques, Expansion Factors, Accuracy Checks, Use of Secondary Sources, Economic data – Income – Population – Employment – Vehicle Owner Ship.

UNIT - III

Travel Demand issues: Trends, Overall Planning process, Long term Vs Short term planning, Demand Function, Independent Variables, Travel Attributes, Assumptions in Demand Estimation, Detailed approach on 4 step travel demand estimation; Sequential, and Simultaneous Approaches, Aggregate and Disaggregate Techniques.

UNIT - IV

Demand and supply planning : Planning for sustainable urban mobility, positive and negative externalities in urban transport, congestion pricing, parking policy, demand management , Urban travel and transportation system characteristics - a systems perspective, Data management and use in decision making , Demand analysis , Urban activity analysis, Supply analysis; Plan Preparation

And Evaluation: Travel Forecasts to Evaluate Alternative Improvements, Impacts of New Development on Transportation Facilities. Master plans, Selection of Corridor, Corridor Identification, Corridor deficiency Analysis.

UNIT - V

Metropolitan cities: Design issues in urban mobility, integrating land use and transport planning; , Overview of urbanization process, city structure and urban activity and infrastructure systems, Economic and social significance of urban infrastructure systems; Transport’s Role in tackling Social Inclusion, Economic Impacts of Transport Policy

References:

• 1. Introduction to Transportation Planning – M.J. Bruton; Hutchinson of London Ltd.
• 2. Introduction to Urban System Planning - B.G. Hutchinson; McGraw Hill.
• 3. Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning - Kadiyali L.R., Khanna Publishers
• 4. Lecture notes on UTP - Prof. S. Raghavachari , R.E.C. Warangal.
• 5. Metropolitan transportation planning – John W. Dickey, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1975.