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Transportation Systems Planning and Management

Course Code 24MTTE21C1 External marks: 100


Credits 4 Internal marks: 50
L-T-P 4-0-0 Total marks: 150
Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, students will be able to
Students will gain an experience in the implementation of planning transportation routes
in new developing towns and cities.
The students will get a diverse knowledge to solve the problem of congestion and
inconvenience.
NOTE: Examiner will set nine questions in total. Question One will be compulsory & will
comprise short answer type questions from all sections & remaining eight questions to be
set by taking two questions from each unit. The students have to attempt five question in
total, first being compulsory & selecting one from each Unit.

Syllabus

UNIT-1
Introduction to transportation planning: Fields of transportation Engineering, Transportation
planning process, Development plans, objectives and goals, level of planning; role of transportation
at national, regional and urban level.
Urbanization: Definition of urban area, trends in urbanization, urban class groups, metropolitan
city, transportation problems & identification.
UNIT-2
Travel Demand: Concepts of travel demand; factors affecting demand and the demand functions;
calibration methods; sequential, direct demand models; introduction to aggregate and disaggregate
approaches.
Transportation Surveys: Division into traffic zones, network identification and coding, types of
travel and characteristics of various surveys, home interview, roadside survey, goods, mass transit
and intermediate public transport surveys, sampling and expansion factors, accuracy checks, screen
line checks, consistency checks..
UNIT-3
Travel Forecasting: Growth factor methods and urban transportation planning system; growth
factors; average growth factor method and Furness method
Transportation Modes and Technologies: Technologies of Transport and System Components,
Path Characteristics, Path-Vehicle Interaction, Discrete Flows and Continuous Flows, Vehicle and
its Performance, Terminal Planning, Operational Planning.
UNIT-4
Urban transportation planning process: Trip generation, zonal regression methods and category
analysis, trip distribution method, gravity models and opportunity models, modal split methods,
factors affecting modal split, trip end models and trip distribution models, route assignment, factors
affecting route choice, diversion curve, shortest paths, all or nothing assignment.
Transportation Plan Preparation: Urban forms and structure, point, linear, radial, poly-nuclear
developments and preparation of plan, comprehensive and traffic system management plans.

References Books:
L.R. Kadiyalli, Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning, Khanna Publishers.
C. S. Papacostas, P. D. Prevedouros, Transportation Engineering and Planning, PHI
Publication.
Salter, R J., Highway Traffic Analysis and Design, ELBS
Hutchison, B.G., Introduction to Transportation Engineering, & Planning, McGraw Hill Book
Co.

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