Urban Transportation Planning and Management Detailed Syllabus for Transportation Engineering M.Tech first year first sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Urban Transportation Planning and Management M.Tech 2017-2018 (R17) first year first sem is as follows.
M.Tech. I Year I Sem.
Course Objectives:
The course introduces students to the fundamentals of urban transportation planning and the types of skills and knowledge that transportation planners need. It further familiarizes students with contemporary transportation planning issues and methods of analysis. The course is highly relevant regardless if students intend to focus on transportation itself, or other aspects of urban planning.
Transportation decisions impact many aspects of urban life. Young and old alike are affected by the viability and relative ease of travelling to destinations on foot, by bike, transit, or reliance on private vehicles. Transportation investments are arguably the single largest shaper of urban spaces and of development patterns. The safety, speed, and comfort for a particular mode of travel are a function of the investments that have been made in specific types of travel options. The perspectives of a variety of experts in our region who are engaged in making transportation planning decisions implemented, major highway expansions are planned and being implemented; and considerable investments are proposed and underway in non-motorized infrastructure.
Relationships between transportation and urban land use systems and new tools to address environmental and quality of life impacts of transportation are presented. Transportation investment decisions (or lack thereof) have been held accountable for increased economic prosperity or spiraling economic decline.
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- Identify urban transportation problems.
- Estimate urban travel demand.
- Plan urban transport networks.
- Identify urban transport corridors.
- Prepare urban transportation plans
Unit – I: Introduction: Role of transportation in the economic development of nations, overview of transport modes, growth trends, National Transport Policy of India – Case studies, transportation planning in the developing world; and comparative international transportation policies; Fundamentals of transportation , Principles of planning, evaluation, selection, adoption, financing, and implementation of alternative urban transportation systems; formulation of community goals and objectives, inventory of existing conditions; transportation modeling trip generation, distribution, modal choice, assignment
Unit – II: Data Collection And Inventories: Collection of data – Organization of surveys and Analysis, Study Area, Zoning, Types and Sources of Data, Road Side Interviews, Home Interview Surveys, Commercial Vehicle Surveys, Sampling Techniques, Expansion Factors, Accuracy Checks, Use o Secondary Sources, Economic data – Income – Population – Employment – Vehicle Owner Ship.
Unit – III: Travel Demand issues: Trends, Overall Planning process, Long term Vs Short term planning, Demand Function, Independent Variables, Travel Attributes, Assumptions in Demand Estimation, Detailed approach on 4 step travel demand estimation; Sequential, and Simultaneous Approaches, Aggregate and Disaggregate Techniques.
Unit – IV: Demand and supply planning : Planning for sustainable urban mobility, positive and negative externalities in urban transport, congestion pricing, parking policy, demand management , Urban travel and transportation system characteristics – a systems perspective, Data management and use in decision making , Demand analysis , Urban activity analysis, Supply analysis; Plan Preparation And Evaluation: Travel Forecasts to Evaluate Alternative Improvements, Impacts of New Development on Transportation Facilities. Master plans, Selection of Corridor, Corridor Identification, Corridor deficiency Analysis
Unit – V: Metropolitan cities: Design issues in urban mobility, integrating land use and transport planning; Overview of urbanization process, city structure and urban activity and infrastructure systems, Economic and social significance of urban infrastructure systems; Transport’s Role in tackling Social Inclusion, Economic Impacts of Transport Policy
REFERENCES:
- Introduction to Transportation Planning – M.J.Bruton; Hutchinson of London Ltd.
- Introduction to Urban System Planning –B.G. Hutchinson; McGraw Hill.
- Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning –Kadiyali L.R., Khanna Publishers
- Lecture notes on UTP – Prof. S. Raghavachari, R.E.C.Warangal.
- Metropolitan transportation planning – John W. Dickey, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1975.
For all other M.Tech 1st Year 1st Sem syllabus go to JNTUH M.Tech Transportation Engineering 1st Year 1st Sem Course Structure for (R17) Batch.
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