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Urban Transportation Planning: Topic:Introduction

Urban transportation planning involves providing mobility for people and goods in cities. An efficient transportation system has economic, social and political benefits like expanded markets, access to opportunities, and national integration. Transportation goals include maximizing personal mobility, improving the urban environment, enhancing economic efficiency, conserving energy, and improving traffic safety. Transportation can be classified as private, public, or intermediate based on vehicle ownership. An urban transportation system consists of fixed infrastructure like roads and terminals, vehicles that use this infrastructure, and control systems to guide vehicle movement.

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Urban Transportation Planning: Topic:Introduction

Urban transportation planning involves providing mobility for people and goods in cities. An efficient transportation system has economic, social and political benefits like expanded markets, access to opportunities, and national integration. Transportation goals include maximizing personal mobility, improving the urban environment, enhancing economic efficiency, conserving energy, and improving traffic safety. Transportation can be classified as private, public, or intermediate based on vehicle ownership. An urban transportation system consists of fixed infrastructure like roads and terminals, vehicles that use this infrastructure, and control systems to guide vehicle movement.

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URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

TOPIC:INTRODUCTION

Lecturer: Dr. Albert Forde


Transportation Defined
•Transportation is defined as the movement of
people, goods, and services in a safe and efficient
manner.
•It contributes to the safety, security, and prosperity
of global economies and something that many
individuals often take for granted.
•Transportation is essential to how we live our lives,
it drives the economy in countless ways, and it often
only comes to the attention of society when it fails
to live up to its expectations.
IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPORTATION
Transportation is essential for providing mobility to
the people, and for movement of goods.
Transportation facilitates a broad spectrum of
opportunities for an individual for desired activities.
Though transport is not an end in itself, it is the
means to many ends.
Efficient transportation results in economic, social
and political advantages.
IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPORTATION
The economic advantages include:
Expanded market for goods; stabilization of prices in
different markets; and economy of scale by
concentration of activities in certain localities and
subsequent distribution.
The social benefits comprise: opportunities to travel
for intellectual pursuits and pleasure; access to
medical facilities; and choice of location for home and
work.
IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPORTATION
The political effects result from promotion of national
integration, uniform extension of government services
to various communities, and strengthening of security
of the country.
Thus transportation is important for the progress of
any nation. Government is associated with
transportation both as a provider of facilities and a
regulator of operations.
TRANSPORTATION GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Serial No. Goal Objectives

 Provide reliable, affordable and safe public


transport to all citizens, and particularly to the
Provide maximum urban poor, the aged, and the children.
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personal mobility
 Improve facilities to pedestrians and
cyclists.

 Reduce air pollution due to vehicles.

 Reduce noise and vibrations due to traffic.


Improve the urban
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environment
 Minimize disruption to community and
problems of rehabilitation due to new projects.

 Enhance esthetic qualities of the urban


environment.
TRANSPORTATION GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Serial No. Goal Objectives

 Increase the capacity of existing facilities


for goods and person movement;

 Reduce personal cost for urban travel;


Enhance the
economic  Reduce cost of urban transportation
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efficiency of systems;
transportation
 Reduce costs of urban goods movement;

 Maximize the positive impacts of urban


transportation
 Reduce consumption of electricity in urban
Conserve energy public transportation;
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resources
 Reduce fuel consumption for urban travel

 Reduce traffic accidents;

Improve traffic  Reduce injuries and deaths due to traffic


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safety accidents;

 Improve personal safety of road users.


CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSPORTATION
The scope of transportation may be broadly classified with
reference to the area of operation as urban transportation
and regional transportation.
Urban transportation concentrates on planning and
operation of transportation with emphasis on the spatial
requirements in an urban area.
The trips are essentially intra-city trips with short trip
lengths. For example, traveling between the Kissy and
Lumley in Freetown. Regional transportation deals with the
aspects relating to inter-city and long distance trips. For
example, traveling between Bo and Makeni.
CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSPORTATION
Transportation can also be classified into three categories
as private transportation, public transportation, and
intermediate public transportation. When the vehicles are
owned by the passengers and used for their exclusive
conveyance, the transportation is referred to as private
transportation, e.g., cars, motorized two-wheelers
(motorbikes/okada), and bicycles.
Public transportation involves the use of common carriers
not owned by the passengers, e.g., buses and trains.
Transportation, using hired vehicles such as taxi, auto-
rickshaw, and cycle rickshaw, is called Intermediate Public
Transportation (IPT)
THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
•A transportation system may be defined as consisting
of the fixed facilities, the flow entities, and the
control system that permit people and goods to
overcome the friction of geographical space
efficiently in order to participate in a timely manner
in some desired activity.
•Fixed Facilities: are the physical components of the
system that are fixed in space and constitute the
network of links (e.g., roadway segments, railway
track, pipes)
THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
and nodes (e.g., intersections, interchanges, transit
terminals, harbors, and airports) of the transportation
system.
•Their design, which has traditionally been within the
realm of civil engineering, includes soil and
foundation engineering, structural design, the design
of drainage systems, and geometric design, which is
concerned with the physical proportioning of the
elements of fixed facilities.
THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
•Although related, geometric design is different from
other aspects of design (e.g., structural design, which
is concerned with the strength of structure to
withstand efficiently the expected forces or loads).
•Flow Entities and Technology: Flow entities are the
unit that transverse the fixed facilities. They include
vehicles, container units, railroad cars(trains), etc.In
the case of the highway system, the fixed facilities are
expected to accommodate a wide variety of vehicle
types ranging from bicycle to large tractor-trailer
combinations.
THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
Control System:
•The control system consists of vehicular control and
flow control. Vehicular control refers to the
technological way in which individual vehicles are
guided on the fixed facilities. Such control can be
manual or automated.
•The proper geometric design of the fixed facilities must
incorporate, in addition to the characteristics of the
vehicle, the characteristics of the vehicular control
system.
THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
Control System:
In the case of highway facilities, where the vehicles are
manually controlled, these include driver characteristics
, such as the time a driver takes to perceive and react to
various stimuli

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