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SYLLABUSOrf 467Transportation Systems Planning and Analysis v1.2Fall 2007/2008 Course DescriptionPart 1. Perspective on the Transportation Sector of the Economy: Its Function, Its Players, ItsTechnologies, Its Policies, Its Information SourcesWeek 1Mon Sep17Introduction and Survey of CourseElements of the transportation sector of the economy, the player, the technologies, the information sourcesReading: http://www.bts.gov/publications/pocket_guide_to_transportation/2007/pdf/entire.pdf (Basic background on Transportation in the US) http://www.bts.gov/publications/bts_special_report/2007_09_10/pdf/entire.pdf (Transportation Service Index http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transportation_and_statistics/volume_06_number_23/html/paper_01/index.html)The Changing Face of Transportation USDOT National Transport Statistics (Continuously updated) Wed Sep 19Historical evolution of National Transportation PolicyReadings: Coyle Ch. 1-4, pp. 2-129 (passed out); Brief History of US DOT http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/history.htm Homework 1: The Last Drop Class Notes: Week 1Week 2Mon Sep 24Current National Transportation Policy and the FY07Budget Proposal for Transportation; Highway taxes;Central Jersey Rapid Transit Project Homework 2: The Value of a Life, Due Sun. Sep 30.Reading: FY2008 Federal Budget ; FY2008 Federal Transportation Budget; The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 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 18.5 percent of the bill’s overall funding. Summary of Highway provisionsWed Sep 26Big 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 provides Background 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 Oct 1Development of a Formal Urban Transportation Planning (UTP) Process & Decision Making: The CentralJersey Transit Study ; Alternatives Analysis: Goals, Objectives, Metropolitan Planning ProcessesRef.: Class Notes also: CNJ US1 BRT Planning ChartsBackground reference: M&M, Ch 2 Planning & Decision MakingWed Oct 3Urban Travel & Transportation System Characteristics: Planning Studies and Methods: Travel Demand Surveys, Data Sources, Intro to Sequential Demand Forecasting Modeling ApproachesBackground reference: M&M, Ch 3 Urban Travel Characteristics, Ch 4 Data Management & Use in Decision MakingHomework #3 My City. Examples: MyCityEx1, MyCityEx2 Due: Wed. Oct 10 & Wed Oct 24. Week 4 Mon Oct 8Relating the demand for transportation with Land Use: Trip generationBackground reference: M&M , Ch. 5.0 – 5.3 News: Wed Oct 10Relating the demand for transportation with Land Use: Trip distributionRef.: Puget Sound Study, Broad, New York Met Area Study, North Carolina Study , Travel modeling Urban Goods Movement Model UGMM ; Class Notes Background reference: M&M , Ch. 5.0 – 5.3 Handout of ITE Trip Generation chapter, Ch. 5.4.1 Ref.: Trip Distribution Notes Week 5Mon Oct 15: Modeling Trip Distribution and Mode Split for State-wide transit systemAssignment: Ref.: Class Notes, Background reference: M&M , Ch. 5.4.2Ref.:Wed Oct 17 Traffic Assignment and paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest PathsReadings: Ch. 5.4.3-6, Magnanti, Ch4, Ch5; Week 6 Mon Oct 22More on: Paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest PathsReadings: Ch. 5.4. Ref.: Class NotesWed Oct 24 More on Networks: Label Setting Dijkstra’s Algorithm Readings: DykstraApplet Ref.: Magnanti Ch 4 Class Notes cTerm Break Oct 28- Nov 3 Part 3 The Role of High Technology in TransportationWeek 7 Mon Nov 5 More on Networks: Dial and Radix Heap Implementations of Dijksta’s; Label Correcting; real world networks and stochastic issues 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 class Monday Nov 12.Wed Nov 9Intelligent 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 12 Wed Nov 14Personal 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 in Automated 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), History of PRTMore Links on PRT: Uppsala Conference; Daventry Conference, Vectus PRTAssignment: New Jersey State-wide PRT Network Design: Assignment v1, Teams Wed Nov 14 Toward 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 NotesPart 4 Current


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