Unit 1 Introduction

4 lecture hours

• problems in transportation
• urban transportation system planning process

Unit 2 Urban Mass Transportation Systems

6 lecture hours

• private and para-transit systems
• their capacities and suitability
• need of coordination

Unit 3 Travel Demand Modeling

18 lecture hours

• Land use planning
• traffic analysis zones
• types of trips
• Trip generation analysis: Home interview and road side interview survey
• regression and category analysis Trip distribution analysis: O-D matrix
• Growth factor methods
• Gravity model
• opportunity model Modal split analysis: Trip-end type and trip-interchange type models
• RP and SP survey
• Probit and Logit models Trip assignment analysis: route choice behavior
• diversion curves
• shortest path algorithms
• All-Or-Nothing assignment
• capacity restraint models
• static and dynamic models

Unit 4 Introduction to routing and scheduling

5 lecture hours

• Problems in routing and scheduling of urban mass transit systems
• transit system’s performance parameters

Unit 6 Procedure in urban mass transit infrastructure planning, construction and

• impact analysis and economic evaluation. 5 12 Course Learning Outcomes: After learning the course the students should be able to:  To understand urbanization and its problems  To understand different urban mass transportation systems  To carry out travel demand modeling analysis  To understand routing and scheduling of urban mass transportation systems  To understand transportation system management techniques and urban goods movement  To understand procedure in urban mass transit infrastructure planning
• construction and maintenance