This document discusses transportation planning for new towns. It outlines several potential goals for transportation planning, including providing separate pedestrian and vehicular systems and convenient access. It also describes the transportation planning process, including defining goals, studying the site/region, and planning different transportation hierarchies like national highways, regional highways, and local roads. Finally, it discusses relationships between land use and transportation, and models for balancing generated trips within new towns.
This document discusses transportation planning for new towns. It outlines several potential goals for transportation planning, including providing separate pedestrian and vehicular systems and convenient access. It also describes the transportation planning process, including defining goals, studying the site/region, and planning different transportation hierarchies like national highways, regional highways, and local roads. Finally, it discusses relationships between land use and transportation, and models for balancing generated trips within new towns.
This document discusses transportation planning for new towns. It outlines several potential goals for transportation planning, including providing separate pedestrian and vehicular systems and convenient access. It also describes the transportation planning process, including defining goals, studying the site/region, and planning different transportation hierarchies like national highways, regional highways, and local roads. Finally, it discusses relationships between land use and transportation, and models for balancing generated trips within new towns.
Transportation is Economy Place of Transportation in New Town’s Planning • Requirement of all socioeconomic classes
• not to be treated as an independent variable
• Should not only be approached technically but
also socially and economically Potential Goals of Transportation Planning Provide separate pedestrian and vehicular systems Provide convenient access and parking for all community areas Provide easy modes of interchange among systems and areas Provide safe movements Provide little chance from dust, noise, and vibration Provide easy commuting and transfer of goods Provide flexibility in meeting emergency as well as normal use Enhance the landscape by interchanging the design of systems and the environment Potential Goals of Transportation Planning • Provide variety of types (land, water and air) for all age groups and social classes • Integrate transportation with land use to meet daily periodic uses • Provide protection accommodated to a new town’s climate • Develop a hierarchical network with regulated speed to minimize the nuisance of transportation and to maintain the network • Integrate construction, development, maintenance, and operation of infrastructure and utilities • Function in regional and national networks to provide access to all terminal and to economic markets • Be inexpensive, efficient, safe, durable, easily maintained, usable year round, and easily altered • Be consistent with general goals and objectives of the new town as set by it planners and developers Transportation Planning Process for New Towns • Define goals and objectives • Study site and region • Collect data and survey a) Physical aspects such as land suitability, soil hazards and limitations, availability of quarries and building materials, projected land uses and schemes b) Social and economic aspects such as existing and expected travel behavior of the population, trends of income, and potential local, regional, and national markets • Plan preparation for pedestrians, highways and streets, town traffic center, local and regional transportation centers and setting regional network Planning for Hierarchy of networks in a New Town • National highways: these are four lane or more highways designed for medium and long journeys at he highest speeds allowed in a particular region. these highways are prohibited to unpowered vehicles and pedestrians. • National highways should never cross a new town, but should bypass it at a reasonable distance to eliminate any adverse effects on new towns and they should be connected to them. • Regional highways: these highways mainly link social and economic centers in a region and connect the national highway with a new town. These are usually medium or high speed roads. National Highways in Pakistan Planning for Hierarchy of networks in a New Town • Major roads: these link neighborhoods, commercial centers, industrial areas, communication and transportation centers, cultural and educational centers and other centers of socioeconomic activity within a new town. • These roads should provide easy traffic flow, usually allow from the medium to the highest speed permitted in the town as they are the highest level of internal roads in a hierarchy and connect with regional highways at free flow intersections. • Major roads may have sidewalks, and pedestrians may cross their connecting highways by means of overpasses or underpasses. • They may have four lanes but in a small city they may have only two. Planning for Hierarchy of networks in a New Town • Secondary roads: these form internal circulation system developed within a new town and function as the major skeletal roads (distributors) within areas of single land use. The basic principle of these roads is that motor vehicles circulate around the edges of the residential blocks without crossing them, and basic speeds of this system are from low to medium. • Collector roads: these are designed to function as the main network of each zoned unit in a new town an also to feed secondary roads. Mainly allowing low speeds, collectors provide parking along the sides. In residential area collector roads are looped to create circulation by entering and leaving the same road within the area. Planning for Hierarchy of networks in a New Town • Local roads: these provide for low level local traffic. They have the lowest speed limits and are the most carefully designed in terms of detail, especially that of pedestrian system above or below them and also provide for bicycle movement and they may terminate in cul-de-sac. • Cul-de-sac: they enable a blocked, built up area to penetrate the system of roads without crossing or dividing it. They also provide continuous pedestrian circulation within the built up area without interruption of highways. • Pedestrian networks: the network runs from one end of a new town to the other. It is wide enough to allow four people to walk an is designed to be convinient to all age groups and penetrate all residential, commercial and social areas. Cul-de-sac Planning Pedestrian Systems • Complete separation is desirable in high density areas or in town center. Pedestrian pathways should be designed to connect underpasses or bridges and bus stations. • Design of paths may consider following i) avoiding long, continuous straight lines and using zigzag lines instead ii) creating variation in the landscape along paths iii) making rest areas available along paths with play place for children iv) design must include access for service vehicles, maintenance, fire, security and utilities. • Width of primary pathways should be 23 feet, secondary of 11.5 feet, and minor of 5 feet Planning Pedestrian Systems Planning Pedestrian Systems Planning Pedestrian Systems Planning Vehicular System • Mass transit: traditional, computer controlled, or electrically powered systems of buses • Monorails or dual rail vehicles which move in fixed under ground or aboveground paths • Controlled cable cars which move aboveground and cross all other transportation services. • Rush hours: roads in a new town and regional roads must be able to absorb the maximum flow in each direction during rush hours • Parking: forecast for parking demand is a difficult thing however calculation of parking is based on the ratio between gross floor area of retail space and gross area of parking space for different uses. parking may be designed as parking lots and parking plazas. Urban Rail Transport Indian urban Transport Planning Vehicular Systems • Road junctions: signalized junctions, roundabouts, grade separated junctions can be designed for a new town according to the type or roads making the crossing. • Traffic signs and road marking: the basic consideration in design an location of road signs is that a driver can recognize the nature of sign before he can read the message and without reducing the speed. Land Use and Transportation • Careful selection and grouping of land use categories is important in collecting and analyzing transportation data for new towns • There are four major interrelated land uses which effect transportation: residential, work, shopping, leisure and education. • Conceptual scheme of interzonal trips within a new town is shown in figure. Land Use and Transportation Land Use and Transportation Elements that influence the relationship between land use and transportation are • Employment • Socio economic considerations • Terminals Models for Balancing Generated Trips • When estimating trips, planners should specifically consider the origin and destination of trips within a new town and between a new town and its neighboring communities • Interzonal trips can be estimated on the basis of no. of dwelling units, resident workers, and jobs available. • Trips can also be estimated in terms of modes of transportation: walking, mass transit, bicycle, cars, etc • Trips can be calculated by considering no. of residential units, the average no. of employees per residential unit, the standard of living , intensity of local and peripheral land use in the generation of specific number of job opportunities and socio economic activities. • No. of trips among a new town and neighboring communities are related to degree of self containment of new town