CE 460: URBAN

TRANSPORTATION
PLANNING I
OUTLINE

• Land use planning.

• Classification of transportation facilities.
• Inventory of transport facilities.
• Urban travel need characteristics.
• Origin-Destination studies.
• Population and economic factors.
• Mass transportation systems including airports, highways, railways.
• Elements of Transportation technology.
COMMON TYPES OF URBAN LAND USES

Urban land uses classified as:

• Residential
• Commercial
• Industrial
• Institutional
• Recreational
• Agricultural
TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSPORTATION
AND LAND USE
• Some of the most egregious land
use issues,
• Stem from the misguided
investment in transportation
systems that prioritize high speed
mobility.
• What inevitably follows is spread
out development dependent on the
automobile for access to critical
needs.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSPORTATION
AND LAND USE
• This places all other modes of travel at a disadvantage.
• The highly mobile transportation system (or “supply”) has affected land use
patterns, particularly how people choose to locate their homes and
businesses.
• Conversely, spread out land use patterns further increase the demand for
transportation because of greater travel distances, and this has become the
eternal cycle that we now find ourselves in, one that is unsustainable in the
long-run.
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT POLICIES AND
PROGRAMS
• 21st Century must be based on a more balanced
approach.
• They must steer away from mobility for mobility’s sake
• Be founded on the principle that the ultimate role of
transportation is to connect people with the goods,
activities and people that they need to make exchanges
with.
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT POLICIES AND
PROGRAMS
• This means that transportation investment policies and programs must be
coupled with land use policies and programs if we are to be successful.
• In core urban areas, streets need to be viewed as places of exchange – both
social and economic – and traffic speeds need to be tuned to facilitate that
exchange, not high speed mobility.
• Non-motorized transportation is the lifeblood of our urban cores, and the
erosion of those cores by the focus on high speed mobility must be reversed.
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT POLICIES AND
PROGRAMS
• When considering integrated land
use and transport planning,
Placemaking promotes a simple
principle:
• if you plan cities for cars and traffic,
you get cars and traffic.
• If you plan for people and places,
you get people and places.
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT POLICIES AND
PROGRAMS
• The power of this simple idea is that it reflects basic truths that are rarely
acknowledged.
• One such truth is that more traffic and road capacity are not the inevitable
results of growth.
• They are in fact the products of very deliberate choices that have been made to
shape our communities around the private automobile.
• We have the ability to make different choices–starting with the decision to
design our streets as comfortable places for people.
 GRAND BOULEVARDS

• Streets can become destinations worth visiting,

not just thruways to and from the workplace.
• Transit stops and stations can make commuting by
rail or bus a pleasure.
• Neighborhood streets can be places where
parents feel safe letting their children play, and
• Commercial strips can be designed as grand
boulevards, safe for walking and cycling and
allowing for both through and local traffic.
• Streets that are planned for people, meaning they are not completely auto-centric,
• add to the social cohesion of communities by ensuring human interaction, and
• providing safe public space that promotes cultural expression.
• A well designed network of streets, which are place-based in their scope and design, has
the ability to promote active transportation.
• As a result, they encourage improved public health while shifting transportation towards
sustainability, mitigating the impacts of climate change in the process.
• Transportation—the process of
going to a place—can be wonderful
if we rethink the idea of
transportation itself. We must
remember that transportation is the
journey, but enhancing the
community is always the goal.