CE 573 Transportation Planning1 Transportation Planning Context CE 573 Transportation Planning Lecture 7

CE 573 Transportation Planning2 Issues for Today Transportation planning and decision making Multimodal transportation planning Travel behavior and population characteristics Sustainable transportation Assignment for next class

CE 573 Transportation Planning3 Transportation system –Mobility of people and goods –Influences patterns of growth and economic activity

CE 573 Transportation Planning4 Changes to system to achieve following objectives –Improved air quality –Enhanced viability of economic centers –Increased mobility –Promote sustainable community development

CE 573 Transportation Planning5 Product of planning is… –Understanding problems –Identifying alternatives –Selecting best alternative –Developing implementation strategies

CE 573 Transportation Planning6 Planning inputs decision making process –Outline of investments necessary to correct system deficiencies –Operations improvements to existing network –Technological improvements to existing network

CE 573 Transportation Planning7 Communication should be such that: –Limited technical/analytical aptitude of decision makers –Desired information is available –Needed information is available

CE 573 Transportation Planning8 Decision makers –Elected officials –Transportation agency managers –Private sector shipping managers –Corporate officials concerned with employee transportation

CE 573 Transportation Planning9 A transportation plan –View of future system characteristics –Provides context for subarea project studies –Anticipate future development –Influence where future development occurs

CE 573 Transportation Planning10 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

CE 573 Transportation Planning11 Multimodal transportation system

CE 573 Transportation Planning12 Moscow, Idaho Case –Pedestrian network –Bike network –Roads network –Bus network –Rail network –Intermodal connector

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CE 573 Transportation Planning14 Multimodal transportation planning

CE 573 Transportation Planning15 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