SYLLABUS Orf 467 Transportation Systems Planning and Analysis v1.2 Fall 2008/2009 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 15 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: 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.pdf Energy Flow Diagram: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pdf/pages/sec1_3.pdf NJ Energy Overview: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=NJ#overview National Transportation Statistics: http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/2007/pdf/entire.pdf Wed Sep 17 Historical evolution of National Transportation Policy Readings: Brief History of US DOT http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/history.htm Homework 1: The Last Drop ; Due Mon Sep 22 Class Notes: Week 1 Week 2 Mon Sep 22 Current 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 18.5 percent of the bill’s overall funding. Summary of Highway provisions Wed Sep 24 Big 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 serviceprovides 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 Investment Week 3 Mon Sep 29 Development of a Formal Urban Transportation Planning (UTP) Process & Decision Making: The Central Jersey Transit Study ; Alternatives Analysis: Goals, Objectives, Metropolitan Planning Processes Ref.: Class Notes Planning Charts Background 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 1 Urban Travel & Transportation System Characteristics: Planning Studies and Methods: Travel Demand Surveys, Data Sources, Intro to Sequential Demand Forecasting Modeling Approaches Background & Data Reference: TCRP B-15 Characteristics of Urban Travel see especially: Overall Trip Rates Homework #3 My City Examples: MyCityEx1, MyCityEx2 Due: Before class on: Wed. Oct 8 & Wed Oct 15. Week 4 Mon Oct 6 Relating the demand for transportation with Land Use: Trip generation Ref.: 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 8 Relating the demand for transportation with Land Use: Trip distribution Ref.: Assignment: Ref.: The Gravity Model, Example of Trip Distribution Model Week 5 Mon Oct 13: Modeling Trip Distribution and Mode Split for State-wide transit system Assignment: 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 Paths Readings: Magnanti, Ch2, Ch4 (to be distributed)Week 6 Mon Oct 20 More on: Paths through networks; Network Analysis: Shortest Paths: Label Setting and Label Correcting, Shortest paths in Real Networks and Essentially Shortest Paths Readings: Magnanti: Ch. 2 & 4. Homework #4 Final Report for My City Ref.: Class Notes Wed Oct 22 More on Networks: Label Setting Dijkstra’s Algorithm Readings: DykstraApplet Ref.: Magnanti Ch 4, especially 4.5 through 4.9 Class Notes c Term 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 c Additional 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 10. Part 3 The Role of High Technology in Transportation Wed Nov 5 Intelligent 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 ATIS Assignment: Next Steps in “Advanced Traveler Information Systems” Week 8 Mon Nov 10 & Wed Nov 12 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 Research Record No. 1993, 2007, pp. 51-58, Class Notes More Links on PRT: Uppsala Conference; Daventry Conference, Vectus PRT Class Notes (PodcarPaper) Assignment: New Jersey State-wide PRT Network Design: Assignment v1, Teams Week 9 Mon Nov 17 and