Transportation Planning

CE 573
Lecture 2

Issues for Today

Transportation planning and decision making
Multimodal transportation planning
Travel behavior and population characteristics
Sustainable transportation
Assignment for next class

Transportation system
Mobility of people and goods
Influences patterns of growth and economic
activity

Changes to system to achieve

following objectives

Improved air quality

Enhanced viability of economic centers
Increased mobility
Promote sustainable community
development

Product of planning is
Understanding problems
Identifying alternatives

Selecting best alternative

Developing implementation strategies

Planning inputs decision making

process
Outline of investments necessary to correct
system deficiencies
Operations improvements to existing
network
Technological improvements to existing
network

Communication should be such

that:
Limited technical/analytical aptitude of
decision makers
Desired information is available
Needed information is available

Decision makers

Elected officials
Transportation agency managers
Private sector shipping managers
Corporate officials concerned with employee
transportation

A transportation plan

View of future system characteristics

Provides context for subarea project studies
Anticipate future development
Influence where future development occurs

Decision-oriented transportation
planning

First: understand how the decisions will be

made

Second: determine the information

requirements for those decisions
Third: identify data and analyses needed to
produce required information

Multimodal transportation system

Moscow, Idaho Case

Pedestrian network
Bike network
Roads network
Bus network
Rail network
Intermodal connector

Multimodal transportation planning

Becoming a Less Auto Dependent

City

Supply management:

Demand management: actions taken to influence demand

intensity, timing, spatial distribution

Land use management: trip making patterns, volumes, and

model distributions are function of spatial distribution of land
use

Travel Behavior and Travel Pattern

Factors

population characteristics
economy
societal concerns
transportation legislation
technology of planning

Population Characteristics
Influencing Travel Behavior

Trips per capita

Population distribution
Employment
Telecommuting**
Occupation**
Bus fees**

Demographic variables and travel

behavior

Income
Age
Automobile ownership
Household

Population characteristics vs travel

behavior
explain current behavior
predict future behavior

Sustainable transportation

Cleaner fuel
Change transportation pricing to reflect true
societal costs

Assignments

Reading 2: Todd Litman sustainable transportation measures.pdf

Due 8/26

Reading 3: http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm67.htm
Due 8/26

Homework 1: Due Friday 8/26

Homework 2: Due Monday 8/29