Urban Transport Planning detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CIVIL), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU CIVIL 7th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Civil Engineering 7th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Professional Elective-3) subjects refer to Professional Elective-3 Scheme. The detail syllabus for urban transport planning is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Urban transport planning: Urbanization, urban class groups, transportation problems and identification, impacts of transportation, urban transport system planning process, modeling techniques in planning. Urban mass transportation systems: urban transit problems, travel demand, types of transit systems, public, private, para-transit transport, mass and rapid transit systems, BRTS and Metro rails, capacity, merits and comparison of systems, coordination, types of coordination.
Module 2
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.
Module 3
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Module 4
Trip Distribution: Gravity Models, Opportunity Models, Time Function Iteration Models. Travel demand modeling: gravity model, opportunity models, Desire line diagram. Modal split analysis. Problems on above.
Module 5
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. Numerical problems on Traffic Assignment. Introduction to land use planning models, land use and transportation interaction.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Kadiyali. L. R., Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning’, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.
- Hutchinson, B.G, Introduction to Urban System Planning’, McGraw Hill.
- Khisty C.J., Transportation Engineering-An Introduction’ Prentice Hall.
- Papacostas, Fundamentals of Transportation Planning’, Tata McGraw Hill.
Reference Books:
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