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SYLLABUSOrf 467Transportation Systems Planning and Analysis v0Fall 2010/2011 Course DescriptionPart 1. Perspective on the Transportation Sector of the Economy: Its Function, Its Players,Its Technologies, Its Policies, Its Information SourcesWeek 1Mon Sep 20Introduction 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/2010/pdf/entire.pdf Trends in Personal Income and Travel miles: http://www.bts.gov/publications/bts_special_report/2007_10_03/pdf/entire.pdf http://www.bts.gov/publications/special_reports_and_issue_briefs/special_report/2009_09_30/html/entire.html#3Energy Flow Diagram: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pdf/pages/sec1_3.pdfv\ Energy Outlook: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/pdf/0383(2010).pdf http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.htmlWorld 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/33550165National Transportation Statistics: http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/2009/pdf/entire.pdf Recent Traffic Volume Trends Highway Statistics Publication ArchiveWed Sep 22Evolution of Urban transportation Technology: From the Omnibus to PRT Homework 1: The Last Drop ; Due Mon Sep 27Class Notes: Week 1 & History Slides & ApteraElectriccarFri Sep 24Special Seminar: Personal Rapid Transit, “Past, Present and Future” J. Edward Anderson Prof. Em. U of MinnesotaReadings: History of PRT ; PRT@LHR; Reference: J. E. Anderson Transit System Theory Lexington Books, 1978 ISBN: 0-669-01902Week 2Mon Sep 27Historical evolution of National Transportation Policy leading to current National Transportation Policy, Highway taxes; Stateline.org_ArticleReadings: Brief History of US DOT Wed Sep 29Big Picture view of Transportation in the next 20-25 years (be prepared to discuss this link!) Personal Rapid Transit, “Transport System of the Future???” History of PRT. A Look at “Radical” Transit Alternatives: Supply Role of Automation in Public Transportation Systems; Recent Developments inAutomated People Movers and Personal Rapid Transit Systems. Study of the Newark Airport and Anderson’s Taxi 2000Readings: NJ PRT Legislative Study; NJ PRT Legislative Exec Presentation, NJ PRT Academic Look, Jerry Schneider’s Source Page, Skyweb Express (aka Taxi2000), More Links on PRT: Uppsala Conference; Daventry Conference, Vectus PRT , PRT for Sodertalje; PRT@LHR10ConfClass Notes (PodcarPaper) Fri Oct 1Organization of Term Assignment: New Jersey State-wide PRT Network Design: Assignment v1, Teams Reference: NJPRT04, NJPRT05, NJPRT07, NJPRT08, NJPRT09Part 2. Planning and Analysis Tools of Transportation Demand and InvestmentWeek 3Mon Oct 4Modeling Transportation Systems; Development of a Formal Urban Transportation Planning (UTP) Process & Decision Making: The Central Jersey Transit Study ; Alternatives Analysis: Goals, Objectives,Metropolitan Planning ProcessesRef.: Cascetta, Ch. 1 Class Notes Planning Charts LincolnTravelDemandModel Background reference: NCHRP Synthesis 406 Advanced Practices in Travel ForecastingEd Weiner, Urban Transportation Planning In the United States: An Historical Overview: Fifth Editionespecially Ch 3 3-C Urban Travel Forecasting Process, Ch 5 Continuing Transportation Planning ; Ch 13,especially: Met and Statewide Planning Regs , Transportation Management Systems, Homework #2a,b My City Examples: MyCityEx1, MyCityEx2, CityOfEden, CofEReport Due: Fri. Oct 15 & Fri Oct 22. Wed Oct 6 Urban Travel & Transportation System Characteristics: Planning Studies and Methods: Travel Demand Surveys, Data Sources, Intro to Sequential Demand Forecasting Modeling ApproachesRef.: Cascetta, Ch. 4.1- 4.4 Background & Data Reference: TCRP B-15 Characteristics of Urban Travel see especially: Overall Trip Rates Week 4 Mon Oct 11Relating the Travel Demand with Land Use: Trip generation; Activity-based demand modelsRef.: 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 MoreMyCity LincolnTripGenWed Oct 13Relating the Travel Demand with Land Use: Trip DistributionRef.: Class Notes: Notes Trip distributionRef.: The Gravity Model, Example of Trip Distribution ModelFri Oct 15Oral Presentations of Land Use and Trip Generation of MyCity Week 5Mon Oct 18 & Wed Oct 20Random Utility Theory and the modeling of Mode ChoiceRef.: Class Notes Cascetta, Ch. 3 Class Notes, LincolnModeChoice Homework #3 Final Report for My CityMonday Oct 25 Precept 7:30pm 109 Friend (no precept Friday Oct 22)Oral Presentations of Land Use and Trip Distribuion of MyCity Week 6 Mon Oct 25Traffic Assignment and paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest PathsReadings: Cascetta, Ch. http://www.princeton.edu/~alaink/Orf467F10/LincolnTrafficAssignment.pdf5.1-5.3, Magnanti, Ch2, Ch4 (to be distributed) Ref.: Class Notes LincolnTrafficAssignmentWed Oct 27More on: Paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest PathsLabel Setting Dijkstra’s Algorithm Readings: DykstraApplet Ref.: Magnanti Ch 4, especially 4.5 through 4.9 Class Notes c ; Comparisons of Orf467F10 My CitiesTerm Break Oct 28- Nov 7 Week 7 Wed Nov 10Presentations of MyCity“Value Pricing”, other pricing policies in transportation. Readings: Fehlig, M, Kornhauser, A. “Marketable Permits for Peak Hour Congestion on Rt 1” RPA Congestion Charging & Technology, 2007Zupan, J and A. Perrotta “An Exploration of Motor Vehicle Congestion Pricing in NY” Regional plan Assoc. , 2003; London Congestion Zone New Toll Proposal for East River Bridges: Ravitch and NYTRef.: Class NotesAssignment: 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. Do them with your partners; turn in one solution set per two person pair.), Due in class Monday, Nov 22.Week 8 Mon Nov 15, 17More on Networks: Dial and Radix Heap Implementations of Dijksta’s; Label Correcting; real world networks and


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