Transportation Planning

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Transportation Planning

• CE 573
• Lecture 2

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Issues for Today

• Transportation planning and decision making
• Multimodal transportation planning
• Travel behavior and population characteristics
• Sustainable transportation
• Assignment for next class

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Transportation system

• Mobility of people and goods
• Influences patterns of growth and economic
  activity

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Changes to system to achieve following objectives

• Improved air quality
• Enhanced viability of economic centers
• Increased mobility
• Promote sustainable community development

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Product of planning is

• Understanding problems
• Identifying alternatives
• Selecting best alternative
• Developing implementation strategies

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Planning inputs decision making process

• Outline of investments necessary to correct
  system deficiencies
• Operations improvements to existing network
• Technological improvements to existing network

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Communication should be such that

• Limited technical/analytical aptitude of decision
  makers
• Desired information is available
• Needed information is available

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Decision makers

• Elected officials
• Transportation agency managers
• Private sector shipping managers
• Corporate officials concerned with employee
  transportation

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A transportation plan

• View of future system characteristics
• Provides context for subarea project studies
• Anticipate future development
• Influence where future development occurs

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Decision-oriented transportation planning

• First understand how the decisions will be made
• Second determine the information requirements
  for those decisions
• Third identify data and analyses needed to
  produce required information

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Multimodal transportation system
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Moscow, Idaho Case

• Pedestrian network
• Bike network
• Roads network
• Bus network
• Rail network
• Intermodal connector

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Multimodal transportation planning
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Becoming a Less Auto Dependent City

• Supply management
• Demand management actions taken to influence
  demand intensity, timing, spatial distribution
• Land use management trip making patterns,
  volumes, and model distributions are function of
  spatial distribution of land use

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Travel Behavior and Travel Pattern Factors

• population characteristics
• economy
• societal concerns
• transportation legislation
• technology of planning

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Population Characteristics Influencing Travel
Behavior

• Trips per capita
• Population distribution
• Employment
• Telecommuting
• Occupation
• Bus fees

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Demographic variables and travel behavior

• Income
• Age
• Automobile ownership
• Household

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Population characteristics vs travel behavior

• explain current behavior
• predict future behavior

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Sustainable transportation

• Cleaner fuel
• Change transportation pricing to reflect true
  societal costs

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Assignments

• Reading 2 Todd Litman sustainable
  transportation measures.pdf
• Due 8/26
• Reading 3 http//www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm67.htm
• Due 8/26
• Homework 1 Due Friday 8/26
• Homework 2 Due Monday 8/29