COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRAFFIC PLANNING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 2218 TRAFFIC PLANNING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HILMI EVREN ERDIN

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course aims to providing basic principles to city planners about development of traffic order in cities highway network at short term and midterm. Therefore methods and standard as a part of traffic engineering studies s are involved in this course content. In this subject, information is conveyed that planners will be able to need in preparing process of development plans.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Will be able to define the elements, components and standards which constitute traffic
2   Will be able to explain the relationship of human, vehicle and road with all the dimensions
3   Will be able to discuss the importance of traffic and traffic planning within the planning efforts
4   Will be able to question traffic order within the up to date applications and experiences
5   Will be able to use the basic traffic principles in the sound restructuring of urban environments and preparing development plans

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: Definitions and concepts. Traffic and transportation problems in cities
2 Spatial-sectoral formations. Generel features, elements and functions of traffic planning studies
3 Urban road network and its features
4 Highway and urban macroform relationship
5 Highways road hierarchy and relationships between transport / traffic and land use
6 Order of informativity and other essential prestudy and research studies in designing and implementing highway
7 Route selection and design principles This week homework subjects will be given to the students.
8 Road cross sections, types and characteristics
9 Midterm Examination
10 Crossroads, types and design principles
11 Parkings, types and design principles. Submission of homework
12 Pedestrian, bike and bus preffered solutions, facilities and design principles
13 Traffic Calming Streets- Network facilities, signalization, markings, surface arrangements and greening
14 Traffic practice - Examples of some applications in World and Turkiye

Recomended or Required Reading

PIGNATARO, L. J., Traffic Engineering: Theory and Practice, Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey, 1973.
TUNÇ, A., Trafik Mühendisliği ve Uygulamaları, Asıl Yayın, Dağıtım, Ankara, 2003.
KILINÇASLAN, T., Kentsel Ulaşım, Ninova Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 2012.
GARBER, N.J., Traffic and Highway Engineering, Pacific Grove, CA : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., 2002.
SLINN, M., MATTHEWS, P. & GUEST, P., Traffic Engineering Design Principles and Practice, Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.
VARLIOPRAK, Ç., TANYEL, S., Yol I, DEÜ Mühendislik Fakültesi Yayını, Izmir, 2000.
YAYLA, N., Karayolu Mühendisliği, Birsen Yayınevi, Istanbul, 2006.
ERSOY, M., Kentsel planlamada arazi kullanım standartları, TMMOB Şehir Plancıları Odası Yayını, Ankara, 2009.
ORAL, M. Yıldırım, Izmir de Ulaşım ve Trafik Sorunları Çözüm Önerileri, Ege Mimarlık Sayı 1999/2 - Sayfa 10, Izmir, 1999.
ALEXANDER, C., A City is not a Tree, Design, Council of Industrial Design, London, 1966

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures and the students will learn by attending and listening the lectures. Besides the midterm examination, students will be asked to prepare homeworks assignment.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + FINS * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining and explaining will be measured by Midterm Examination.
Discussing, questioning and using will be measured by
Homework Assignments and Final Examination.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures and discussions over sample cases.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

evren.erdin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday: 13.00-14.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 5 2 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparing assignments 2 8 16
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 66

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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