SYLLABUS Orf 467 Transportation Systems Planning and Analysis v0 Fall 2011/2012 Course Description Part 1. Perspective on the Transportation Sector of the Economy: Its Function, Its Players, Its Technologies, Its Policies, Its Information Sources Week 1 Mon Sep 19 Introduction and Survey of Course Elements of the transportation sector of the economy, the player, the technologies, the information sources Reading: Basic background on Transportation in the US U.S. Freight on the Move: Highlights from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey Preliminary Data National Transportation Statistics: http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/2010/pdf/entire.pdf Recent Traffic Volume Trends; Travel Monitoring Trends in Personal Income and Travel miles Highway Statistics Publication Archive Energy Flow Diagram: Total Energy 2009 Energy Outlook: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/pdf/0383(2010).pdf http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html World Oil Demand & Reserves: http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/economics/crude-oil-facts.htm; http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/ptb1104.html; http://www.cnbc.com/id/33550165 Wed Sep 21 Evolution of Urban transportation Technology: From the Omnibus to PRT Homework 1: The Last Drop ; Due Mon Sep 26 Class Notes: Week 1 Week 2 Mon Sep 26 Evolution of Urban transportation Technology: From the Omnibus to PRT Historical evolution of National Transportation Policy leading to current National Transportation Policy, Readings: History Slides PRT@LHR; & ApteraElectriccar Tue Sep 27 Precept Discussion of “Last Drop” and Big Picture view of Transportation in the next 20-25 years (be prepared to discuss this link!) Readings: ; Highway taxes; Stateline.org_Article Brief History of US DOT Wed Sep 28 Personal Rapid Transit, “Transport System of the Future???” History of PRT. A Look at “Radical” Transit Alternatives: Recent Developments in Automated People Movers and Personal Rapid Transit Systems. Study of the Newark Airport and Anderson’s Taxi 2000 Readings: NJ PRT Legislative Study; NJ PRT Legislative Exec Presentation, NJ PRT Academic Look, Jerry Schneider’s Source Page, Skyweb Express (aka Taxi2000), Reference: J. E. Anderson Transit System Theory Lexington Books, 1978 ISBN: 0-669-01902 More Links on PRT: Uppsala Conference; Daventry Conference, Vectus PRT , PRT for Sodertalje; PRT@LHR10Conf; Podcar_Stockholm_2011; 2GetThere/Masdar; Animations: IndiaPRT ; BathClass Notes (PodcarPaper) Part 2. Planning and Analysis Tools of Transportation Demand and Investment Week 3 Mon Oct 3 Modeling Transportation Systems; Development of a Formal Urban Transportation Planning (UTP) Process & Decision Making: The Central Jersey Transit Study ; Alternatives Analysis: Goals, Objectives, Metropolitan Planning Processes Ref.: Cascetta, Ch. 1 Class Notes Background reference: NCHRP Synthesis 406 Advanced Practices in Travel Forecasting Ed Weiner, Urban Transportation Planning In the United States: An Historical Overview: Fifth Edition especially Ch 3 3-C Urban Travel Forecasting Process, Ch 5 Continuing Transportation Planning ; Ch 13, especially: Met and Statewide Planning Regs , Transportation Management Systems, Planning Charts Homework #2a,b My City Examples: MyCityEx1, MyCityEx2, CityOfEden, CofEReport Due: Tue. Oct 11 & Tuei Oct 18. Tue Oct 4 Precept (102 CS bldg) Discussion of MyCity homework objectives Wed Oct 5 Urban Travel & Transportation System Characteristics: Planning Studies and Methods: Travel Demand Surveys, Data Sources, Intro to Sequential Demand Forecasting Modeling Approaches Ref.: Cascetta, Ch. 4.1- 4.4 Background & Data Reference: LincolnTravelDemandModel SCAG_Modelling MoreMyCity TCRP B-15 Characteristics of Urban Travel see especially: Overall Trip Rates; Travel Surveys: http://www.travelsurveymanual.org/ Week 4 Mon Oct 10 Relating the Travel Demand with Land Use: Trip generation; Activity-based demand models Ref.: Cascetta, Ch. 4.5 Puget Sound Study, Broad, New York Met Area Study, North Carolina Study , (see Notes for links) Travel Modeling Urban Goods Movement Model UGMM ; Class Notes Notes LincolnTripGen Tue Oct 11 Precept (102 CS bldg) Presentation of MyCity Designs and Trip Generations Wed Oct 12 Relating the Travel Demand with Land Use: Trip Distribution Ref.: Class Notes: Notes Trip distribution Ref.: The Gravity Model, Example of Trip Distribution Mode Lincoln NEl SCAGTripDistribution Week 5 Mon Oct 17 Random Utility Theory and the modeling of Mode Choice Ref.: Class Notes Cascetta, Ch. 3 Class Notes, ModeChoice, SCAG_ModeChoice LincolnModeChoice Homework #3 Final Report for My CityTuesday Oct 18 Precept 8:00pm 102 CS) Oral Presentations of Production, Attractions and Work Trip Distribuion of MyCity Wed Oct 19 Traffic Assignment and paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest Paths Readings: Cascetta, Ch. http://www.princeton.edu/~alaink/Orf467F10/LincolnTrafficAssignment.pdf5.1-5.3, Magnanti, Ch2, Ch4 (to be distributed) Ref.: Class Notes SCAG_Networks SCAG_TrafficAssignment LincolnTrafficAssignment http://www.scag.ca.gov/modeling/pdf/MVS03/MVS03_Chap04.pdf Week 6 Mon Oct 24 and Wed Oct 26 More on: Paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest Paths Label Setting Dijkstra’s Algorithm Readings: DykstraApplet Ref.: Magnanti Ch 4, especially 4.5 through 4.9 Class Notes c ; Comparisons of Orf467F10 My Cities Tuesday Oct 25 Precept 8:00pm 102 CS) Oral Presentations of Final Report of MyCity Term Break Oct 27- Nov 6 Week 7 Mon Nov 7 More on Networks: Dial and Radix Heap Implementations of Dijksta’s; Label Correcting; real world networks and stochastic issues Ref.: Magnanti Ch 4, especially 4.5 through 4.9 Class Notes c FlowMapExamples Additional Readings: Hunt, Kornhauser, “Assigning Traffic Over Essentially-Least-Cost Paths”, He, Kornhauser & Ran, “Essentially best routes in dynamic and stochastic networks”, Zhan & Noon, “Shortest Path Algorithm : An Evaluation using Real Road Networks Assignment: Magnanti: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.30, 2.31, 2.43, 2.44, 2.45, 4.1, 4.14, 4.15 (These are straight forward. 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