Lec 1.

Introduction
Objectives of Lecture 1

Business Understand that land-use and transportation planning must go hand in hand Understand that planning is decision making and collection of information for decision making Understand multi modes of transportation must be integrated to provide convenient transportation infrastructure: from auto-only to multiple-alternative transportation infrastructure

Transportation is a derived demand

but it also helps a community change its form for good or bad, depending on the quality of planning
Improved access changes the land use

New community Need for transportation facilities

B Land use B attracts trips

Land use A generates trips

Perspective of urban transportation planning:

The purpose of planning tools is to provide systematic and neutral information to support decision-making, while the ethical content of planning is assumed to be in the definition of the problem and the weighing of information by decision makers Wachs, 1985 Transport planning must be seen as an integral part of a much wider process of decision making. Too often in the past transport solutions have been seen as the only way to resolve transport problemstransport planning must be seen as part of the landuse planning and development process, which requires an integrated approach to analysis and a clear vision of the type of city and society in which we wish to live Banister, 1994

Multimodal transportation system

Multimodal transportation planning: The process of defining problems, identifying alternatives, evaluating potential solutions and selecting preferred actions that meet community goals in a manner that includes all feasible transportation modes

Michael d. Meyer, GIT

Intermodalism example: Gateway Intermodal Center

Gateway Intermodal Center
near the current AMTRAK station

Downtown SLC

I-15 SLC Airport

TRAX Sandy Terminal Streets Provo/Orem

Commuter Train

Payson

Recent concepts emphasized in the textbook

Metropolitan focus (from urban to metropolitan/regional planning) Systems perspective (transportation facility economic development, etc) Linkage to development and land use Linkage to environmental quality and ecosystem health Linkage to community quality of life System performance orientation accountability of public investments Evolution in transportation system technology (e.g. ITS) Revolution in computer technology (from modeling to monitoring to database and its analysis) Adopting an implementation perspective (financial constraints)