1. Regional & Urban Planning 09/05/2010 Dr. Ahmad BinTouq E-mail: abintouq@uaeu.ac.ae URL: http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouqhttp://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouq GEO438 Regional & Urban Planning 15:30-16:45 FJC01 0034

2. Overview: Contemporary Urban Planning: Part 3 (Fields of Planning): 1)Chapter 12: Transportation Planning 2)Poster outlines and research examples 3)The Geography of the Aerotropolis Model: A Case Study of United Arab Emirates Airports

3. Important of transportation Transportation is very important for us as a planner, because it is connecting with the other policy such as land decisions, zoning, housing….etc. What’s the definition of transportation?

4. Paying for transportation:- where is the money coming from? The USA federal government put policies for enhance transportation. Public transportation (Mass transportation).

5. 2) Land use and Transportation planning Transportation and land use related to each other, when the land use change the net of transportation also changed. For example, when the land changed from residential to commercial, the transportation net must be improve to make people transportation very easy.

6. Exercise * Discuss the land-use and transportation in the UAE and how it’s related to urban design and planning at the emirates level?