CEE 571: Urban Transportation Planning

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Catalog Description

571 Urban Transportation Planning. I; 3cr. 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 modelingtrip generation, distribution, modal choice, assignment, technological characteristics and operation of modern transit and other movement systems. P:Civ Engr 370 or cons inst. Smith, Ran.

Course Prerequisite(s)

See catalog description above.

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

Basic principles of the operation of transportation systems relating to vehicle flow and capacity
Basic principles of statistics
Basic principles of microeconomics

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

Meyer, Michael D. and Miller, Eric J., Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-Oriented Approach, McGraw Hill, 1984.
Harvey, G. and Deakin, E., Manual of Regional Transportation Modeling Practice, National Assocation of Regional Councils, Washington, D.C., July 1993.

Course objectives

To describe the dimensions of urban transportation systems and the relationship to community goals and objectives.
To develop an understanding of the data needed for planning urban transportation systems and how the data can be collected.
To demonstrate the ability to develop, analyze and apply standard transportation planning models.
To evaluate alternative transportation technologies.
To apply engineering economic analysis and other systems evaluation methods to the evaluation of alternative transportation systems.

Topics covered

Overview of urban transportation planning
Transportation planning data needs and collection techniques
Travel demand modeling based on trip generation, trip distriubtion, modal choice and trip assignment.
Urban transportation technology.
Transportation systems evaluation.

Class/laboratory schedule

Three 50 minute lecture/discussion sessions per week

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component

This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, but does not provide design experience.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

economic - consideration of the time value of money in the evaluation of alternative transportation systems; consideration of user, operating and construction costs. environmental - identification of impacts as part of the systems evaluation process societal - identifcation of community goals and objectives as part of the transportation planning process. health and safety - identification of accident costs as a component of systems evaluation.

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes

This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.

education in the fundamentals of CEE - students develop an advanced understanding and ability to describe, analyze and evaulate alternative urban transportation systems. communication skills - students demonstrate oral and written communication skills through the writing and presentation of a formal term project.

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

Assessment of the mastery of each main topic through problem sets with immediate feedback and class discussion as appropriate.
Interim assessment of students' progress through two hour exams.
Overall assessment of progress through a comprehensive two hour final exam.
Assessment of ability to communicate through preparation and presentation of a term project/paper.

Person(s) who prepared this description

Bin Ran

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Date last modified: 02-Aug-2007
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