Transportation Planning I

At the end of the course, students will be able to: 1. identify the challenges of traffic and transportation in urban centres; 2. develop basic skills in traffic survey for urban transportation planning; and 3. illustrate competence in traffic control strategies for averting traffic congestion in urban areas.

Role of transportation in urban and regional planning: traffic generation as a function of land use: mode of transportation of goods, services, and people-characteristics and performances. Relationship between transportation planning and land use planning. Methods of collection, analysis, interpretation and projection of traffic data, traffic problems and control problems, control measures and management problems of organization and regulation of public transport. Introduction to road geometric and design of intersections. Introduction to traffic control systems and management. The accompanying workshop assignment will include basic surveys analysis, interpretation, synthesis and application of results in a variety of situations like road intersection and parking areas.