Urban Transportation and Planning Civil 7th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Professional Elective-4)

Urban Transportation and Planning detail syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CV751), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other civil 7th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Civil 7th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-4 subjects do refer to Professional Elective-4. The detail syllabus for urban transportation and planning is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable students to;

1. Understand and apply basic concepts and methods of urban transportation planning.
2. Apprise about the methods of designing, conducting and administering surveys to provide the data required for transportation planning.
3. Understand the process of developing an organized mathematical modelling approach to solve select urban transportation planning problem.
4. Excel in use of various types of models used for travel forecasting, prediction of future travel patterns.

Module 1

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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

Trip Generation & Distribution: UTPS Approach, Trip Generation Analysis: Zonal Models, Category Analysis, Household Models, Trip Attraction models, Commercial Trip Rates; Trip Distribution by Growth Factor Methods. Problems on above

Module 4

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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. Introduction to land use planning models, land use and transportation interaction.

Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will be able to:

1. Design, conduct and administer surveys to provide the data required for transportation planning.
2. Supervise the process of data collection about travel behavior and analyze the data for use in transport planning.
3. Develop and calibrate modal split, trip generation rates for specific types of land use developments.
4. Adopt the steps that are necessary to complete a long-term transportation plan.

Program

Course Objectives:

1. Engineering knowledge
2. Problem analysis
3. Interpretation of data

Text Books:

1. Kadiyali.L.R., Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning’, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.
2. Hutchinson, B.G, Introduction to Urban System Planning’, McGraw Hill.
3. Khisty C.J., Transportation Engineering – An Introduction’ Prentice Hall.
4. Papacostas, Fundamentals of Transportation Planning’, Tata McGraw Hill.

Reference Books:

1. Mayer M and Miller E, Urban Transportation Planning: A decision oriented Approach’, McGraw Hill.
2. Bruton M.J., Introduction to Transportation Planning’, Hutchinson of London.
3. Dicky, J.W., Metropolitan Transportation Planning’, Tata McGraw Hill.

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