Introduction to urban transportation planning

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Introduction to urban transportation planning

• Introduction
• Urban transport problems
• Decision making
• Urban transportation planning process
• Modeling
• Structure

• Transport and land use are inter-related

Transport to support the vision for a city
provided that that vision has taken transport
into account
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Urban transport problems

• Overview
• Traffic movement
• Traffic congestion
• Traffic management
• Traffic behaviour
• Traffic accidents
• Parking
• Shortage of parking
• Parking charges
• Traffic enforcement

• Public transport
• Peak hour conditions
• Off-peak service
• Funding
• Pedestrians
• Accessibility
• Lack of facilities
• Environment

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Modelling and decision making

• Master plans
• End state
• Stable environment Developing countries?
• Normative decision making
• Systems approach
• Quantitative assessment mathematical
• But- insensitive, high cost and long study, black
  box, infers accuracy
• Behavioural decision theory
• Meets evaluation criteria rather than selecting
  optimum solution

• Group decision making
• Qualitative and quantitative input
• Often driven by powerful individual or group
• Participants buy into solution
• Guides modelling
• Adaptive decision making
• When decisions are to be taken collectively.
  Modelling only as minor input
• Mixed decision making modes

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Systems approach (1)

• Approach
• Deductive data proves theory
• Inductive data develops theory
• Modelling the system
• Data
• Cross-sectional versus time series
• Stated versus revealed preference

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Systems approach (2)
BUILDING
APPLICATION