COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
INŞ 4090 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Civil Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MUSTAFA ÖZUYSAL

Offered to

Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

It is aimed to give information on the estimation of future demands for movement; the design of a series of alternative transportation plans according with community aims and objectives and evaluation of alternative transportation plans, in both economic and social aspects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to associate the transportation demand and land use characteristics
2   To be able to compare the different transportation modes
3   To be able to estimate the effects of passenger behaviours on mode choice
4   To be able to analyze the consequences of the regulations related to the travel demand and transport policies
5   To be able report and present the findings about the transportation system

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

INŞ 3025 - TRANSPORTION ENGINEERING I

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to transportation planning, organization and administration, transportation planning process
2 Collection of basic data, traffic zones, travel pattern data, household surveys
3 Collection of basic data (cont.), inventory of existing transportation facilities, planning and economic data
4 Trip generation, influencing factors: physical, social and economic
5 Trip generation (cont.), prediction methods, category analysis
6 Trip distribution, uniform factor method, average factor method, growth factor method
7 Trip distribution by growth factor (cont.), Fratar method, Detroit method
8 Trip distribution by synthetic methods, gravity model and numeric examples
9 Trip distribution by synthetic methods (cont.), multiple linear regression method and numeric examples
10 MID-TERM EXAM
11 Modal split, factors influencing modal split, characteristics of trip, passenger and transportation system
12 Modal split (cont.), probit model, logit model, binary logit model, multinomial logit model
13 Traffic assignment, Wardrop's theory, all or nothing method, capacity constrained method, user equilibrium method
14 Traffic assignment (cont.), user equilibrium method, stochastic methods

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):

Modelling Transport, Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Luis G. Willumsen, Wiley & Sons, ISBN:0471861103, Ingiltere, 2002.

Materials:

Presentations, course notes.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Applications, presentation, homework.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-5: it is evaluated by mid-term and final exams.
LO 1, LO 2, LO 4 and LO 6: it is evaluated by homework and presentation.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Serhan TANYEL: serhan.tanyel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced after the course schedule is determined.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 78

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.143
LO.2445
LO.3445
LO.4434
LO.545

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