INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS PLANNING (GEOG 111)

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INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS PLANNING
(GEOG 111)
September 23, 2004
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Syllabus

• 2 days/week lectures
• 1 lab session/week
• Blocks of material
• Policy/Planning
• Transportation and Environment
• Modeling and 4-step model review
• Data Analysis
• Activity-based Approaches

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Projects/Exams

• Project A Design a survey
• Project B Analyze travel behavior data
• UG - Exam review
• Professional presentation TRB style
• Grads Research special topic

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Readings

• Meyer and Miller textbook
• KGoulias edited CRC press e-book
• Ortuzar Willumsen good reference but hard to
  read (good for grads)
• Other material

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TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
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Key Ideas

• Policy - Planning - Forecasting - Operations
  Management sequences apply to many areas
• The theories, models, processes, and ideas we
  will review can be used in many technology areas
• Transport studies have been by tradition
  interdisciplinary (e.g., geography psychology,
  engineering economics, engineering
  psychology)
• In GEOG 111/211 we will look at long range
  policies and plans, regional short term
  management tools, and new technologies
• You will take active part in defining many ideas
  in the course
• Typical format overview by Goulias --
  discussion of topics -- work in class -- summary

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Outline

• Introduction Background (today)
• Transportation Technologies (today)
• Processes in Policy-Planning (next)
• Geographic Region Simulation Example (lab and
  lectures in detail)

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Definitions

• Mobility
• Accessibility
• Congestion
• Efficiency
• Equity
• Air Quality

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Transport (Transportation in US)

• The safe and efficient movement of people and
  goods in an environmentally responsible manner

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Transport (Transportation in US)
Time and money
Lives, property damage

• The safe and efficient movement of people and
  goods in an environmentally responsible manner

Air pollution, noise, water pollution, and land
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Transport System Components

• Infrastructure (environment or hardware -
  streets, railways, terminals)
• Vehicles (cars, buses, trains)
• Rules regulations (driving code)
• Services (emergency, maintenance, licensing)
• Information systems (directions, right-of-way
  with signals)

People (drivers transport operators)
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Transport System Components (Infrastructure
Modes)
Visualize the Transportation System as Layers
Highways
Railways
Terminals
Other Geographic Features
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Intermodal Facility at Karaiskaki Athens, Greece
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Intermodal Facility at Karaiskaki
Train Station
Pedestrian bridge
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Intermodal Facility at Karaiskaki
Highways
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Intermodal Facility at Karaiskaki
And Tram
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Another Example (Lisbon)
Pedestrian system
Info.
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Transport Problems (US)

• Accidents (44,000 fatalities in 1996)
• Congestion (delay in minutes)
• Efficiency (19 of household expenditures)
• Accessibility (difficulty to reach a place)
• Aesthetics (perception)
• Discomfort (perception)
• Noise (dB)
• Pollution (460 million metric tons of CO2)
• Energy Consumption (12 million barrels/day)

Sources Highway Statistics 1996, State Data
System 1998, Trans. Stats. 1998
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Pollutant Emissions
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Social and Demographic Trends (US)

• Household size decreases
• More women in the labor force
• More part-time employed people
• People live further from work activity centers
  (urban sprawl)
• Increasing real income
• Increasing car ownership (206 million vehicles,
  179 million drivers)
• Increasing Sport-Utility Vehicles (4-wheel
  drive)

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Transport Trends

• Accidents (decreasing on a per mile basis)
• Congestion (increasing in suburbs)
• Efficiency (increasing but not clear)
• Accessibility (more places to reach-by car good)
• Aesthetics (see strip developments-unknown
  trend)
• Discomfort (?)
• Noise (?)
• Pollution (increasing CO2 - decrease in other -
  stable NOx)
• Energy Consumption (increasing)
• Dependency on foreign oil (increasing)

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Transport Solutions Technologies Overview

• Accidents - automotive improvements, highway
  design, longitudinal barriers, pavement, new
  control systems
• Congestion - traffic control, incident/emergency
  management, integrate private car with other
  modes
• Efficiency -double stack railcars, longer and
  larger trucks, telecommuting, intermodal
  transfers
• Accessibility - use telecommunications to
  substitute/complement travel, provide public
  transport, design cities in a compact way

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Transport Solutions Technologies Overview

• Aesthetics - new design techniques (see noise
  walls), eliminate strip development, create
  neo-traditional designs
• Discomfort - smooth pavements, maintenance of
  roads, new railcar technology
• Noise - pavement/tire improvements
• Pollution - new catalytic converters, electric
  cars and hybrids, traffic management systems
• Energy Consumption - European example in 1980s
  but see SUVs, increase in Kilometers traveled

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Brief Class Survey

• Get an idea of your background
• Get an idea of your expectations
• Be specific in topics studied

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Questions?
Note The next presentation is on
Transportation and Technologies (TransTech.ppt)