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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