1. Transportation Planning CE 573 Lecture 2

2. Issues for Today Transportation planning and decision making Multimodal transportation planning Travel behavior and population characteristics Sustainable transportation Assignment for next class

3. Transportation system –Mobility of people and goods –Influences patterns of growth and economic activity

4. Changes to system to achieve following objectives –Improved air quality –Enhanced viability of economic centers –Increased mobility –Promote sustainable community development

5. Product of planning is… –Understanding problems –Identifying alternatives –Selecting best alternative –Developing implementation strategies

6. Planning inputs decision making process –Outline of investments necessary to correct system deficiencies –Operations improvements to existing network –Technological improvements to existing network

7. Communication should be such that: –Limited technical/analytical aptitude of decision makers –Desired information is available –Needed information is available

8. Decision makers –Elected officials –Transportation agency managers –Private sector shipping managers –Corporate officials concerned with employee transportation

9. A transportation plan –View of future system characteristics –Provides context for subarea project studies –Anticipate future development –Influence where future development occurs

10. Decision-oriented transportation planning –First: understand how the decisions will be made –Second: determine the information requirements for those decisions –Third: identify data and analyses needed to produce required information

11. Multimodal transportation system

12. Moscow, Idaho Case –Pedestrian network –Bike network –Roads network –Bus network –Rail network –Intermodal connector

14. Multimodal transportation planning

15. Becoming a Less Auto Dependent City –Supply management: –Demand management: actions taken to influence demand intensity, timing, spatial distribution –Land use management: trip making patterns, volumes, and model distributions are function of spatial distribution of land use

16. Travel Behavior and Travel Pattern Factors –population characteristics –economy –societal concerns –transportation legislation –technology of planning

17. Population Characteristics Influencing Travel Behavior –Trips per capita –Population distribution –Employment –Telecommuting** –Occupation** –Bus fees**

19. Demographic variables and travel behavior –Income –Age –Automobile ownership –Household

20. Population characteristics vs travel behavior –explain current behavior –predict future behavior

21. Sustainable transportation Cleaner fuel Change transportation pricing to reflect true societal costs

22. Assignments Reading 2: “Todd Litman sustainable transportation measures.pdf” –Due 8/26 Reading 3: http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm67.htmhttp://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm67.htm –Due 8/26 Homework 1: Due Friday 8/26 Homework 2: Due Monday 8/29