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URP-805 Urban & Regional Transportation Systems
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Campus
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SCEE (NIT)
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Programs
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PG
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Session
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Fall Semester 2016
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Course Title
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Urban & Regional Transportation Systems
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Course Code
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URP-805
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Credit Hours
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3
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Pre-Requisutes
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Course Objectives
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Course Objectives: The purpose of the course is to provide knowledge on the dimensions of urban transportation systems, and to develop understanding of the data needed for planning urban transportation systems, ability to develop, analyze and apply standard transportation planning models, to evaluate alternative transportation technologies and to apply the methods of transportation planning to a specific real-world projects.
Course Outcomes: After the course the student should have a firm, all round knowledge on urban & regional transportation planning.
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Detail Content
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- Overview of urban transportation planning
- Overview of regional transportation planning
- Transportation planning data needs and collection techniques
- Travel demand modeling based on trip generation, trip distribution, modal choice and trip assignment.
- Urban transportation technology.
- Transportation systems evaluation.
- Case studies
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Text/Ref Books
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- Meyer, Michael D. and Miller, Eric J., 1984, Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-Oriented Approach, McGraw Hill.
- Harvey, G. and Deakin, E., Manual of Regional Transportation Modeling Practice, National Assocation of Regional Councils, Washington, D.C., July 1993.
- C.S.Papa Costa, P.D.Prevedovouros, Transportation Engineering and Planning, Third edition.
- Nustadin G. Goulias, Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications.
Reference books (Authors, title, publisher & publication year):
- Kurt W. Bauer,(2010), City Planning for civil engineers, and surveyors, CRC Press
- Transportation, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam -Printed in The Netherlands 2 (1973) 431-447
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Time Schedule
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Fall Semester 2015
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Faculty/Resource Person
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TVF Imran Ali
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