Course description

Mobility is a basic human need. From the times immemorial, everyone travels either for food or leisure. Therefore, transportation plays a major role in the development of the human civilization. This makes the solution to transportation problems must be analytically based, economically sound, socially credible, environmentally sensitive, and practically acceptable and sustainable. Alternatively, the transportation solution should be safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and eco-friendly for both men and material.  This course will provide insight of the transportation systems and their characteristics, transportation and society, transportation technology and components of transportation systems.  Besides, understating the fundamental of stream behavior and its performance, the course presents an overview of the travel demand modelling for transportation planning. Mainly there are four stages model that is trip generation, trip distribution, modal split and trip assignment. The choice of routes in the development of transportation planning depends upon certain parameters like journey time, distance, cost, comfort, and safety.

Course Learning Objectives

Student completing this course successfully will be able to:

1. Understand the main characteristics of transportation systems.
2. List the different components of transportation systems.
3. Analyze the data of flow stream and different zones of the network
4. Predict future Generated and attracted trips using different prediction Models
5. Assign Traffic (trips) to related links of the network
6. Simulate a traffic flow in the case of continuous stream.

Course Contents

The topics covered in this course include:

• Transportation systems and their characteristics.
• Transportation and society.
• Transportation technology and components of transportation systems.
• Vehicle motion, flow,  performance and trip prediction models.
• Continuous flow, Gravity Models.
• Terminals, traffic assignment
• Introduction to Transportation demand.