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Transportation Planning Context
CE 573 Transportation Planning
Lecture 7
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Issues for Today
• Transportation planning and decision making
• Multimodal transportation planning
• Travel behavior and population characteristics
• Sustainable transportation
• Assignment for next class
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Transportation system
– Mobility of people and goods– Influences patterns of growth and economic
activity
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Changes to system to achieve following objectives
– Improved air quality– Enhanced viability of economic centers– Increased mobility – Promote sustainable community
development
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Product of planning is…
– Understanding problems
– Identifying alternatives
– Selecting best alternative
– Developing implementation strategies
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Planning inputs decision making process
– Outline of investments necessary to correct system deficiencies
– Operations improvements to existing network
– Technological improvements to existing network
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Communication should be such that:
– Limited technical/analytical aptitude of decision makers
– Desired information is available– Needed information is available
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Decision makers
– Elected officials– Transportation agency managers– Private sector shipping managers– Corporate officials concerned with employee
transportation
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A transportation plan
– View of future system characteristics– Provides context for subarea project studies– Anticipate future development– Influence where future development occurs
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Decision-oriented transportation planning
– First: understand how the decisions will be made
– Second: determine the information requirements for those decisions
– Third: identify data and analyses needed to produce required information
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Multimodal transportation system
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Moscow, Idaho Case
– Pedestrian network– Bike network– Roads network– Bus network– Rail network– Intermodal connector
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Intermodal facility
Bike
Rail
Bus 1
Rus 2
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Multimodal transportation planning
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Becoming a Less Auto Dependent City
– Supply management:
– Demand management: actions taken to influence demand intensity, timing, spatial distribution
– Land use management: trip making patterns, volumes, and model distributions are function of spatial distribution of land use
