UCExxx: Design of Smart Transportation Systems

L T P Cr
3 1 0 3.5

Course Objective: Travelers in large cities experience significant congestion during their
everyday trips. Expanding roads and infrastructure is not a long-lasting remedy to urban
congestion. This course will focus on understanding traffic congestion and will explore
ways to improve mobility through advanced traffic management schemes and Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) which will improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability
of transportation networks, to reduce traffic congestion and to enhance drivers’
experiences.
Analysis of Transportation Systems – I
Introduction to transportation systems, transportation innovations, social and economic impacts
of transportation, Decision makers and their options, demand modeling and predictions,
Modeling transportation technologies, Analysis of network flows, Transportation network,
Network theory, Wardrop’s external principle of traffic assignments, evaluation of impacts,
Basic physics of transportation.
Analysis of Transportation Systems – II
Concepts in transportation models and location models, Analysis of utility maximizing systems
such as transportation systems by entropy concepts, Major transportation technologies, Urban
and megalopolitan transportation and economic policy, mathematical programming and other
models for selecting network investments and operation planning.
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Definition of ITS and Identification of ITS Objectives, Historical Background, Benefits of ITS -
ITS Data collection techniques – Detectors, Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), Automatic
Vehicle Identification (AVI), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), video data collection.
Functional Areas of ITS
Importance of telecommunications in the ITS system, Information Management, Traffic
Management Centers (TMC), Vehicle – Road side communication – Vehicle Positioning
System, Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS), Advanced Traveler Information
Systems (ATIS), Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO), Advanced Vehicle Control Systems
(AVCS), Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS), Advanced Rural Transportation
Systems (ARTS).
Transportation System user needs and services
Travel and Traffic management, Public Transportation Management, Electronic Payment,
Commercial Vehicle Operations, Emergency Management, Advanced Vehicle safety systems,
 Information Management, Automated Highway Systems - Vehicles in Platoons, Integration of
Automated Highway Systems, ITS Programs in the World – Overview of ITS implementations
in developed countries, ITS in developing countries.
Course Learning Outcomes (CLO):

After the completion of this course the students would be able to:

1. Estimate Travel Demand of a particular corridor, city or area

2. Perform Four Stage Modelling for Travel demand and further Design transportation alternatives for the
same.
3. Suggest mass transit alternatives for a given conditions on the base of its characteristics and capacity
estimate.
4. Select appropriate ITS technology depending upon site specific conditions.
5. Design and implement ITS components

Recommended Reading:
1. Sarkar, P.K., Maitri Vinay., Joshi, G.J.; Transportation Planning: Principles, Practices
and Policies, PHI, New Delhi, 2014.
2. Hutchinson B.G.; Principals of Urban Transportation System Planning, Mc-Graw Hill,
1974.
3. 6. Khisty C.J., Lall B. Kent, Transportation Engineering- An Introduction, Prentice-
Hall, NJ, 2005.
4. 7. Ortuzar, J.D., Willumsen, L.G., Modeling Transport, John Wiley and Sons, 1994.
5. 8. Papacostas C.S. and Prevedouros, P.D., Transportation Engineering and Planning,
PHI, New Delhi, 2002
6. Grigg, Neil, Infrastructure engineering and management, Wiley, (1988).
7. Haas, Hudson, Zaniewski, Modern Pavement Management, Krieger, Malabar, (1994).
8. Hudson, Haas, Uddin, Infrastructure management: integrating design, construction,
maintenance, rehabilitation, and renovation, McGraw Hill, (1997).
9. Munnell, Alicia, Editor, Is There a Shortfall in Public Capital Investment? Proceedings
of a Conference Held in June (1990).
10. World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for Development (1994).
11. Zimmerman, K. and F. Botelho, “Pavement Management Trends in the United States,”
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1 European Pavement Management Systems Conference, Budapest, September (2000).

Sr. No. Evaluation Elements Weightage (%)

1 MST 30
2 EST 45
3 Sessional (May include assignments/quizzes) 25