Urban Transportation Planning
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The official GTU curriculum for Urban Transportation Planning (subject code ME02065051) as prescribed for CE · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 64 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME02065051)Unit 1 URBANISATION & URBAN TRANSPORT PLANNING PROCESS
- Scope and functions of transportation
- traffic problem
- functions of traffic engineering
- Transport planning and its scope
- components of comprehensive planning
- urban transport system planning
- land use forecast
- travel forecast
- systems approach to transportation planning
- levels of urban transport planning
- Urbanization cycle
- Urban forms and structures
- NUTP - Urban transportation problems
- Sustainable Development Goals & Transport
- System’s Approach
- Conventional and Sustainable Urban Transport Planning process
Unit 2 LANDUSE AND TRANSPORTATION SURVEYS
- Land use transport planning
- land use and transportation interaction
- land use planning models
- Lawry model
- Grain-Lawry model
- Study Area Delineation
- types of surveys and data collection for urban land use and transportation planning models
- survey data checks
Unit 3 TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING
- TRIP GENERATION ANALYSIS Trip Productions & Attractions
- Influencing factors
- methods of trip generation
- expansion factor methods
- regression analysis method
- category analysis- Simple & Multiple linear regression models
- Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Civil Engineering Subject Code: ME02065051 Subject Name: Urban Transportation Planning
Unit 4 TRIP DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS
- Trip distribution matrix
- methods of trip distribution
- Growth factor methods
- Detroit method
- frater method
- Furness method
- Synthetic methods: Gravity
- Opportunity Models
- Calibration of Gravity model
Unit 5 MODAL SPLIT ANALYSIS
- Choice of travel mode
- basic approaches for modal split analysis
- Influential factors
- trip end models
- trip interchange models
- two stage modal split models
- logit models for mode choice
- Diversion curves & surfaces-Discrete choice models
Unit 6 ROUTE ASSIGNMENT ANALYSIS
- Choice of routes
- factors affecting route choice
- methods of route assignment
- Trip Assignment procedure
- Diversion curves
- All or Nothing assignment
- Multipath assignment-Capacity restraint assignment
- User equilibrium and system equilibrium approach- Stochastic assignment approach
- URBAN MASS TRANSORTATION SYSTEMS Urban transit problems
- travel demand
- types of transit system
- para-transit transport
- mass and rapid transit systems
- metro rails
- comparison of systems
- types of coordination