1. Transportation Planning
CE 573
Lecture 2

2. Topics Multimodal Transportation Planning
Define sustainable transportation
Measure sustainable transportation

3. Multimodal Transportation Planning

4. Sustainable Transportation
What is it?
Capacity for continuance
Right to better life for everyone
What is the problem?
Social progress
Economic growth
Resource depletion
Environmental
Impacts

5. The Problem in Transportation
Environmental Impacts
Economic Impacts
Social Impacts
Resources
What outcome does the community want?

6. Conventional vs Comprehensive Transportation Planning
Accessibility
Mobility
Broader goal
set
Narrow goal set
Information

7. Sustainability Principles
Comprehensive analysis
Integrated/strategic planning
Goals focused (environmental, social, and economic)
Market principles
Transparency, accountability, and public involvement

8. Sustainability Indicators for Transportation
pages 7 to 9 Reading 3
page 28 Reading 2
Selection example
Identify goals
Select indicators

9. Choosing Indicator Sets
See page 6 Reading 2
Use more than 1
Should reflect goals
Perspectives and limitation are understood
Data are available
Generalized across time and jurisdiction
Useful for decisions

10. Campus Transportation Goals
What should the goals be?

11. Campus Transportation Indicators
How should we measure our progress?

12. Assignments
No reading
No homework