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URBAN TRANSPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

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Group 3

Urban Transportation

According to Geography of Transport System, considering that a


growing share of the global population lives in cities, urban
transportation issues are of foremost importance to support the
mobility of passengers in large urban agglomerations.
Transportation in urban areas is highly complex because of the
modes involved, the multitude of origins and destinations, and the
amount and variety of traffic.

Traditionally, urban transportation has focused on passengers, as


cities were viewed as locations of utmost human interactions with
intricate traffic patterns linked to commuting, commercial
transactions, and leisure/cultural activities. However, cities are also
locations of production, consumption, and distribution linked to
freight mobility.

Conceptually, the urban transport system is intricately linked


with urban form and spatial structure. Urban transit is an important
dimension of mobility, notably in high-density areas.

Transportation Planning

* Transportation planning is a preparation planning to move/transfer


human, animal or another item to some place to another place.

* This planning will be related to the operation of the highway


system, geometry, and operation of traffic facilities.

Function of Transportation Planning

* To identify highway system component

* To define transportation planning

* To recall the process and purpose of construction planning design

* To identify 4 models of transportation

Important of Transportation Planning

* Efficiency - to achieve efficient management and better


management of existing resources

> Effective use of transportation system

> Uses of technology


> Land use and resource controlling

* Quality - o reduce a negative impact to the traffic that produce a


pollution

* Equity - to meet travel demand at response for all communities

Transportation Planning Period

Short Term (Action Plan)

- review matters that can be completed within three years and


involve high costs.

Example: program an engineers to optimize the use of existing


transportation systems by installing various traffic control devices
such as signs and signals

Long Term (* 5 years)

- This type of planning is more structured and complicated and it


must be designed better than short term planning

- Urban transportation planning process involves planning the next


20 to 25 year

Characteristic of Transportation Planning

* Determine the transportation needs make/built a transportation


formulas

* Study the profitability

* Traffic/travel pattern is clear, stable and can be control

* Relationship between the various modes of transportation

* The transportation system can influence the development for that


area and needy to serve it.
Transportation Planning Element

Planning Process

Situation definition

- Involve all of the activities required to understand the situation


that gave rise to the perceived need for a transportation
improvement. Information about surrounding area, its people and
their travel habits may be obtained.

Problem definition

- To describe the problem in term of objectives to be accomplished


by the project.

- Objectives are statements of purpose such as to reduce traffic


congestion, to improve safety etc.

Search for solution

- Consideration is given to variety of ideas, design, location, and


system configuration that might provide solution to the problem.

Analysis of performance

- To estimate how each of the proposed alternatives would perform


under present and future conditions
Evaluation of alternative

- To estimate how each of the proposed alternatives would perform


under present and future conditions

Choice of project

- Made after considering all the factors involved.

Specification and Construction

- Once the transportation project has been selected, the project


move into the detailed design phase which each of the components
of the facilities is specified.

Common types of Urban Land uses

Urban Land Use

Urban land use refers to the way we use the landscape in urban
areas. Of the land use types, five are urban land uses. These
include:

· Industrial · Commercial

· Residential · Transportation

· Recreational

Urban land use can be identified as land for the use of retailing,
management, manufacturing, residence/housing, or industrial
activities. These activities are for the benefit of society and the
economy and ultimately aim to increase the development of a
location.

Land Use - Key takeaways

 Land use is the way in which society uses and modifies the
land.

 Agricultural, industrial, commercial, residential, recreational,


and transportation are the main six different types of land use.
 Land use policies are used to manage and plan land use in a
more sustainable way.

 Environmental impacts of land use include deforestation,


habitat destruction, monocultures, the spread of invasive
species, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and soil
degradation. Social impacts include urban sprawl and
infrastructure congestion.

Transportation Studies in Planning Process

Spot speed studies

 Conducted to estimate the distribution of speeds of vehicles in


a stream of traffic at particular location.
 Carried out by recording the speed of a sample of vehicles at
specific location
 Will be valid only for the traffic and environmental conditions
that exist at the time of study.

Application of spot speed data

 Establish parameter for traffic operation such as speed zones,


speed limits, and passing restriction
 Evaluate the effectiveness of traffic control devices such as
variable message sign at work zone.
 Evaluate/determine the adequacy of highway geometric
characteristic Evaluate the effect of speed on highway

Determine speed trends. Travel time and delay studies

 A travel time study determines the amount of time required to


travel from one point to another on a given route.
 Information may also collect on the location, duration, and
causes of delays.
 Data also aid the traffic engineer in identifying problems at
the location.

Application of time & delay data

 Determine the efficiency of a route with respect to its ability to


carry traffic
 Identification of locations with relatively high delay and the
causes for those delay.
Determine the traffic times on specific link for use in trip
assignment models

 Performance of economic studied in the evaluation of traffic


operation alternative that reduce travel time.
 To evaluate the change in efficiency and level of service with
time.

Parking studies

 The need of parking spaces is usually very great in the areas


where land uses including business, residential and
commercial activities
 Providing adequate parking space to meet the demand for
parking in central parking district may affect the level of
service.

Application of parking data

 To get the valid information (before and latest)


 To know whether it is adequate parking or not
 To provide information needed to enable the implementation
of payment by the parties involved.

General policy of transportation

Social aspects

 improve the social aspects as can be done safely and


comfortably.

Economic aspects

 with the existence variety of travel pattern, activities such as


employment, population and household income will be
increase.

Physical aspects
 create an efficient transportation system because there are
various modes of transportation introduced,
 in an effort to reduce traffic congestion in urban areas, the
following elements have been introduced
 capacity- widening access, traffic lights, sidewalks, traffic
lights, parking (cars, motorcycles, bicycles)
 priority - priority to bus routes, truck, space is limited
(pedestrian), parking
 restraint - access control, incentives to use public transport,
car sharing, land- use policy.

The role of transport policy

 high quality urban transport impacts on the pattern of living,


including:

1. affect/improve the productivity and economic growth

2. provide increased accessibility and influence and prices and land


use

3. affect the standard of living 4. affect the environment in the city

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