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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 .
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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
Moscow, Idaho Case • Pedestrian network • Bike network • Roads network • Bus network • Rail network • Intermodal connector
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