BVM ENGINEERING COLLEGE [AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION]
5TE41: TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PRACTICES CREDITS – 4 (LTP:3,1,0)
Course Objectives:
1. To study urban morphology.
2. To study urban travel characteristics and forecast the travel demand.
3. To understand transport and land use interaction.
4. To develop a transportation network and prepare the transport plan.
Teaching and Assessment Scheme:
Teaching Scheme
(Hours per week) Credits Assessment Scheme Total Marks
L T P C
Theory Marks Practical Marks
ESE CE ESE CE
150
3 1 0 4 60 40 20 30
Course Contents:
Unit
No. Topics Teaching
Hours 1 General
Hierarchical Level of Planning, Passenger and Goods Transportation, General Concept and Process, Urban Travel Characteristics, Private &
Public Travel Behaviour Analysis Travel Demand Estimation and Forecasting
10
2 Trip Generation
Productions & Attractions – Influential factors, Trip rate analysis, Category analysis, Simple & Multiple linear regression models – FHWA method Trip Distribution
Interchange matrix, Growth factor methods, Synthetic methods, Calibration of Gravity model
Modal Split
Influential factors, FHWA Procedure, Diversion curves & surfaces, Discrete choice models, Concept, Types, BL, MNL & HL models
16
3 Trip Assignment
Trip Assignment procedure, Diversion curves, BPR model, All or Nothing assignment, Multipath assignment, Capacity restraint assignment, User equilibrium and system equilibrium approach, Stochastic assignment approach
09
4 Land-use Transport Planning
Transport Related Land Use Models. Corridor Type Travel Planning, State- wide and Regional Transportation Planning.
10
Total 45
List of References:
1. Bowmen, J. and M. ben-Akiva, Activity based travel Forecasting; in Activity based travel forecasting. Washington,DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, Report DOT-97-17.
2. Bruton M.J., Introduction to Transportation Planning, Hutchinson of London, 1988 3. Chakroborty P., Das N., Principles of Transportation Engineering, PHI,New Delhi,2003 4. Dickey J.W., Metropolitan Transportation Planning, Tata Mc-Graw Hill 1980
5. Hutchinson B.G., Principles of Urban Transportation System Planning, Mc-Graw Hill, 1974.
BVM ENGINEERING COLLEGE [AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION]
6. Khisty C J., Lall B.Kent, Transportation Engineering – An Introduction, Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2005
7. Ortuzar, J. D., Willumsen, L.G., Modeling Transport, John Wiley & Sons, 1994
8. Papacostas C.S. and Prevedouros, P.D., Transportation Engineering & Planning, PHI, New Delhi,2002