JNTUK B. Tech Urban Transportation Planning (Elective-IV) for R13 Batch.

JNTUK B.Tech Urban Transportation Planning gives you detail information of Transportation Planning R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.

Lecture : 3 hrs/Week : —– Internal Assessment : Marks
Tutorial : 1 Hrs / Week : —– Semester End Examination : Marks
Practical : — Credits : 3

Course Learning Objectives
The objective of this course is:

• To learn various procedures for travel demand estimation .
• To various data collection techniques for OD data.
• To know various models and techniques for trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice and traffic assignment.
• To develop alternative urban transport network plans.

Course Outcomes
At the end of course, Student can

• Estimate travel demand for an urban area.
• Plan the transportation network for a city.
• Identify the corridor and plan for providing good transportation facilities.
• Evaluate various alternative transportation proposals.

SYLLABUS

UNIT -I : Urban Transportation Problems & Travel Demand: Urban Issues, Travel Characteristics, Evolution of Planning Process, Supply and Demand – Systems approach; Trends, Overall Planning process, Long term Vs Short term planning, Demand Function, Independent Variables, Travel Attributes, Assumptions in Demand Estimation, Sequential, and Simultaneous Approaches, Aggregate and Disaggregate Techniques.

UNIT -II : Data Collection And Inventories: Collection of data – Organisation 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 of
Secondary Sources, Economic data – Income – Population – Employment – Vehicle Owner Ship.

UNIT -III : Trip Generation & Distribution:UTPS Approach, Trip Generation Analysis: Zonal Models, Category Analysis, Household Models, Trip Attraction models, Commercial Trip Rates; Trip Distribution: Growth Factor Methods, Gravity Models, Opportunity Models, Time Function Iteration Models.

UNIT -IV : Mode Choice Analysis:Mode Choice Behaviour, Competing Modes, Mode Split Curves, Aggregate and Disaggregate Approaches; Discrete Choice Analysis, Choice sets, Maximum Utility, Probabilistic Models: Binary Logit, Multinomial Logit Model – IIA property; Aggregation

UNIT -V : Traffic Assignment:Diversion Curves; Basic Elements of Transport Networks, Coding, Route Properties, Path Building Criteria, Skimming Tree, All-or-Nothing Assignment, Capacity Restraint Techniques, Reallocation of Assigned Volumes, Equilibrium Assignment.

UNIT -VI : Corridor Identification, Plan Preparation & Evaluation: Master plans, Selection of Corridor, Corridor Identification, Corridor deficiency Analysis; Travel Forecasts to Evaluate Alternative Improvements, Impacts of New Development on Transportation Facilities. Pivot Point Analysis, Environmental and Energy Analysis; Case studies.

TEXT BOOKS

• ‘Introduction to Urban System Planning’ by Hutchinson, B.G., McGraw Hill.
• ‘Transportation Engineering – An Introduction’ by Khisty C.J., Prentice Hall.
• ‘Fundamentals of Transportation Planning’ by Papacostas, Tata McGraw Hill.

REFERENCES

• ‘Urban Transportation Planning: A decision oriented Approach’ by Mayer M and Miller E, McGraw Hill.
• ‘Introduction to Transportation Planning’ by Bruton M.J., Hutchinson of London.
• ‘Metropolitan Transportation Planning’ by Dicky, J.W., Tata McGraw Hill.
• ‘Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning’ by Kadiyali.L.R., Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.

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