Bachelor's of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

General Data

Code: 58V362
Type of credits: ECTS
Number of credits: 5.00
Engagement hours: 150.00
ISCED-F: Transport services
Status: Elective
Academic Year: 2º
Term: 1º
Modality: Presential
Languages: English
Available for Mobility Students: Yes
Restricted to alliance: No

Coordination

Description

Students should understand the transportation planning process, be familiar with methods and techniques of transportation data collecting and analysis, with assessments and evaluations of developed measures, and know the stages of the transportation planning model.

Subject area

Transportation Planning – Traffic Modelling, Travel Demand, Modal Split, Route Assignment, Transport Policy

Requirements

No prerequisites required.

Instructors

viš. pred. mag. BENO MESAREC

Contents

  1. Transportation planning process overview
  2. Groups of measures: land use planning, traffic-organisational, logistical, technical, regulatory, pricing, behavioural, infrastructural
  3. Development of measures, scenarios and variants
  4. Assessment of planned measures; prognosis methods: trend, model and quasi-prognosis
  5. Evaluation: multi-criteria, cost-benefit, weighted indicators
  6. Transportation analysis – traffic and mobility data collection; cordon and corridor analysis, tracking methods
  7. Transportation modelling – traditional four-stage model overview
  8. Trip generation: production and attraction, purposes of travel, cross-classification method
  9. Trip distribution: empirical and gravitational approaches, origin-destination matrix
  10. Generalised costs; mode choice and modal split; logit approach
  11. Route choice and network assignment: Wardrop equilibrium, incremental methods
  12. Use of transportation planning tools (PTV-Vision, TransCAD)

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Prepare traffic studies and organise the traffic planning process
  • Capture traffic data using different methods
  • Develop traffic solutions in variants with qualitative/quantitative forecasts
  • Create a four-stage traffic model
  • Determine trip generation, create travel matrices, calculate modal split, carry out traffic assignment
  • Apply methodology of planning: goals, analysis, development of measures

Transferable/key skills:

Use results of transportation planning as entry data for infrastructure design. Use of transportation planning software.

Recommended Readings and Tools

Readings:

  • Lep, M., & Mesarec, B. (2015). Planiranje prometa (243 pp.). Fakulteta za gradbeništvo.
  • Transportation Planning Handbook (4th ed.). (2016). John Wiley & Sons.
  • PTV-Vision or TransCAD Users Manual.
  • Trip Generation Manual (ITE); Parking Demand Manual (ITE).

Planned Activities

Lectures, fieldwork, and computer work.

Course structure:

  • Lectures: 30 hours
  • Tutorial: 30 hours
  • Individual work: 90 hours
  • Total: 150 hours

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Assessment weights:

  • Written examination: 50%
  • Seminar paper: 30%
  • Oral examination: 20%

Additional information:

A student can replace the written examination with two midterms.