ANURAG GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS
(AUTONOMOUS)
IV Year B.Tech. Civil-I Sem L T P/D C
3 0 0 3
URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
(PROFESSIONAL ELECTIVE–IV)
Prerequisite – Transportation Engineering
Course Objectives:
To know about urban planning, assignment and their attributes.
Build knowledge on data collection methods.
Build knowledge on requirement of Trip generation and Trip Distribution methods
Build knowledge on requirement of mode choice analysis
Build knowledge on requirement of Traffic Assignment techniques
Course Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, it is expected that the students will be able to,
Interpret urban transportation issues and learn the solution generation
Analyze the survey data and data inventory
Analyze Trip generation and Trip Distribution methods.
Assess requirement of mode choice analysis.
Evaluate requirement of traffic assignment techniques.
UNIT-I
Urban Transportation Problems and 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 – Organization 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 and Trip 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 Behavior, 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: 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.
TEXT BOOKS
1. L.R. Kadiyali, Traffic Engineering and transportation Planning, 8th Ed., Khanna Publishers,
New Delhi, 2005.
2. Hutchinson, B.G, Introduction to Urban System Planning, 1st Ed., McGraw Hill, 1974.
REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Khisty C.J, Transportation Engineering - An Introduction, 3rd Ed., Prentice Hall, 2003.
2. C.S. Papacostas, Fundamentals of Transportation Planning,3rd Ed., Prentice Hall India,
2000.
3. Mayer.M and Miller.E, Urban Transportation Planning: A decision oriented Approach, 2nd
Ed., McGraw Hill, 2000.
4. Bruton M.J, Introduction to Transportation Planning, Hutchinson of London, 1975.
NPTEL
1. http://www.nptelvideos.in/2012/11/urban-transportation-planning.html
2. https://nptel.ac.in/courses/105106058/
3. https://nptel.ac.in/syllabus/105106058/
