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SYLLABUSOrf 467Transportation Systems Planning and Analysis v1.2Fall 2008/2009 Course DescriptionPart 1. Perspective on the Transportation Sector of the Economy: Its Function, Its Players, ItsTechnologies, Its Policies, Its Information SourcesWeek 1Mon Sep 15Introduction and Survey of CourseElements of the transportation sector of the economy, the player, the technologies, the information sourcesReading: Basic background on Transportation in the US: http://www.bts.gov/publications/pocket_guide_to_transportation/2008/pdf/entire.pdf Trends in Personal Income and Travel miles: http://www.bts.gov/publications/bts_special_report/2007_10_03/pdf/entire.pdfEnergy Flow Diagram: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pdf/pages/sec1_3.pdfNJ Energy Overview: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=NJ#overviewNational Transportation Statistics: http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/2007/pdf/entire.pdfWed Sep 17Historical evolution of National Transportation PolicyReadings: Brief History of US DOT http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/history.htm Homework 1: The Last Drop ; Due Mon Sep 22Class Notes: Week 1Week 2Mon Sep 22Current National Transportation Policy and the FY09Budget Proposal for Transportation; Highway taxes;Central Jersey Rapid Transit Project Homework 2: The Value of a Life, Due Sun. Sep 28.Reading: FY2009 Federal Budget ; FY2009 Federal Transportation Budget; The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), governs fiscal years 2004 through 2009. The legislation For 2005 to 2009, highway spending limits total $189.48 billion, and public transportation funding totals $45.31 billion. Public transportation spending equals 18.5percent of the bill’s overall funding. Summary of Highway provisionsWed Sep 24Big Picture view of Transportation in the next 20-25 years (be prepared to discuss!) The Private Sector side of Transportation. Carriers, shippers 3rd party logistics, and other service providesBackground reference: links to trucking industry: Trucking/Carriers: http://www.truckline.com/, http://etrucker.com, http://www.truckinginfo.com/, http://truklink.com/, http://www.truckload.org/ Logistics/Shipper: http://www.logisticsmgmt.com, http://www.totalsupplychain.com, http://www.trafficworld.com/, http://inboundlogistics.com/index.shtml, http://logistar2.com/ (For software vendor research), http://www.pcmiler.com/news/industry/default.html Part 2. Planning and Analysis Tools of Transportation Demand and InvestmentWeek 3Mon Sep 29Development of a Formal Urban Transportation Planning (UTP) Process & Decision Making: The CentralJersey Transit Study ; Alternatives Analysis: Goals, Objectives, Metropolitan Planning ProcessesRef.: Class Notes Planning ChartsBackground reference: 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 10 ITE trip Generation Report Ch 13, especially: Met and Statewide Planning Regs , Transportation Management Systems, Wed Oct 1Urban Travel & Transportation System Characteristics: Planning Studies and Methods: Travel Demand Surveys, Data Sources, Intro to Sequential Demand Forecasting Modeling ApproachesBackground & Data Reference: TCRP B-15 Characteristics of Urban Travel see especially: Overall Trip RatesHomework #3 My City Examples: MyCityEx1, MyCityEx2 Due: Before class on: Wed. Oct 8 & Wed Oct 15. Week 4 Mon Oct 6Relating the demand for transportation with Land Use: Trip generationRef.: 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 Wed Oct 8Relating the demand for transportation with Land Use: Trip distributionRef.: Assignment: Ref.: The Gravity Model, Example of Trip Distribution Model Week 5Mon Oct 13: Modeling Trip Distribution and Mode Split for State-wide transit systemAssignment: Ref.: Class Notes Class Notes, Wed Oct 15 Traffic Assignment and paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest PathsReadings: Magnanti, Ch2, Ch4 (to be distributed)Week 6 Mon Oct 20More on: Paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest PathsReadings: Magnanti: Ch. 2 & 4. Homework #4 Final Report for My CityRef.: Class NotesWed Oct 22 More on Networks: Label Setting Dijkstra’s Algorithm Readings: DykstraApplet Ref.: Magnanti Ch 4, especially 4.5 through 4.9 Class Notes cTerm Break Oct 26- Nov 1 Week 7 Mon Nov 3 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 cAdditional Readings: 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, 4.1, 4.14, 4.15 (These are straight forward. Do them with your partners; turn in one solution set per two person pair.), Due in classMonday Nov 10.Part 3 The Role of High Technology in TransportationWed Nov 5Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS): In-vehicle Satellite Navigation: From TravTek to Navigation Based Services; Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Readings: 511 Traffic Bay Area South Florida Virginia TampaBay Minnesota Georgia Traffic.com Real-time ATISAssignment: Next Steps in “Advanced Traveler Information Systems”Week 8 Mon Nov 10 & Wed Nov 12Toward Real-Time Dynamic Minimum Estimated Time of Arrival turn-by-turn route guidance Readings: Demers,A, et al “Competing With the Ghost of ADVANCE: Experimenting with Real-Time ATIS”, Fontaine, M.D., et al, “Wireless Location Technology-Based Traffic Monitoring” Transportation ResearchRecord No. 1993, 2007, pp. 51-58, Class NotesMore Links on PRT: Uppsala Conference; Daventry Conference, Vectus PRT Class Notes (PodcarPaper)Assignment: New Jersey State-wide PRT Network Design: Assignment v1, Teams Week 9Mon Nov 17 and Wed Nov 19Evolution of Urban transportation Technology: From the


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