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TransCAD - Exercise Session 1-4

This document provides instructions for a transportation planning exercise involving the creation of maps, networks, and matrices in TransCAD. It includes steps to: 1) Create traffic analysis zones, road networks, and centroids from AutoCAD files and assign attributes to the network links like length, volume, capacity, and time. 2) Arrange the link data, add fields, and make selections based on volume and time thresholds. 3) Create matrices with the zone IDs and add fields to change the IDs, fill cells with values, and perform calculations between matrices.

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TransCAD - Exercise Session 1-4

This document provides instructions for a transportation planning exercise involving the creation of maps, networks, and matrices in TransCAD. It includes steps to: 1) Create traffic analysis zones, road networks, and centroids from AutoCAD files and assign attributes to the network links like length, volume, capacity, and time. 2) Arrange the link data, add fields, and make selections based on volume and time thresholds. 3) Create matrices with the zone IDs and add fields to change the IDs, fill cells with values, and perform calculations between matrices.

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CE 5810: Urban Transportation Planning Exercise (Session 1 - 4) NOTE: For each main question copy a screen shot of the

final result and paste it onto a word document with your roll number. I. Map and Network Creation (using autocad files) 1. Using the given autocad files (example area layer.dxf and example road layer.dxf) , create the following in TransCAD: a. Traffic Analysis Zone b. Zone Centroids c. Road Layer d. Add centroidal connectors to the road layer

Fig 1. Analysis Zones

Fig 2. Road Network

2. Create a network from the underlying road layer. 3. Display the legend for the area layer and change the map scale by a factor of 1.5. 4. Add a colour theme (with 5 levels) for the area layer based on zones areas. II. Map and Network Creation (using Map Editor) 1. Create the traffic analysis zones (TAZ) as shown in the figure (demarcated by black lines) and the underlying road layer (blue lines represent two way streets and red lines represent one way streets). 2. Create centroids for the traffic analysis zones and add this layer to your map. 3. Create a network from the underlying road layer. 4. Update the network excluding the two one way streets. Add turn penalties for all right hand turning movements. Display the direction of flow on all streets.

III.

DATA TABLES

1. For the road layer created in the previous exercise, define the following link attributes and assign the values given below : (1) Length (2) Volume (3) Capacity (4) Time in mins (Compute time using where tff = 50kmph) 5) Speed 2. Arrange the records in the dataview in ascending order of (a) capacity and then by (b) volume. 3. Add a new field Temp_ID and fill it with a sequence of numbers starting 15 with a step of 2. 4. Create a selection set containing (1) all links with volume > 2000 (2) all links with time per unit length > 0.75 mins/km. 5. Combine the two selection sets created previously and create a new geographic file (line layer) containing only links in the combined selection set.
LINK
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

LENGTH (km)
2.5 3.0 1.5 1.5 1.0 1.5 0.5 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 1.0 0.5 0.5

VOLUME (pcu/h)
750 1250 1500 1500 2250 1500 1750 1750 2000 3500 1500 2500 2500 3000

CAPACITY(pcu/h)
2000 2000 4000 4000 4000 2000 2000 4000 2000 4000 2000 4000 6000 6000

IV. MATRICES

1. Create a matrix (M1) with row and column ids corresponding to IDs of the traffic analysis zone network II from the previous exercise. Add another matrix (M2) to this matrix file. Display the row and column marginals for matrices M1 and M2. 2. Add a new field (of type string) area_code to the corresponding area layer with values A for zone with highest area, B for the second largest zone, C for the third largest and so on. Change the row and column IDs of the matrix created earlier using values from the field area_code. 3. Fill all cells of M1 with 5 and all cells of M2 with 15. Append another matrix M3 to the given matrix file with values given by [M3]ij = (2*[M2]ij ) / [M1]ij

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