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 4290 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

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

None

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 Modal split, factors influencing modal split, characteristics of trip, passenger and transportation system
11 Modal split (cont.), probit model, logit model, binary logit model, multinomial logit model
12 Traffic assignment, Wardrop's theory, all or nothing method, capacity constrained method, user equilibrium method
13 Traffic assignment (cont.), user equilibrium method, stochastic methods
14 Homework presentation, general evaluation

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, presentations, 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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

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

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Class attendance will be taken into account in the evaluation. Term paper topics will be distributed to students during the semester.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa ÖZUYSAL: mustafa.ozuysal@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 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 123

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15544
LO.24454
LO.35554
LO.44444
LO.5544

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