Credits: 4 (3-0-2)
Prerequisites: M.Tech: Nil; B.Tech: Instructor’s permission
Description
Fundamentals of transportation planning. Components of transportation system and their interaction. Historical development and current status of techniques used in travel demand forecasting; Economic Theory of travel demand forecasting; trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, traffic assignment models. Integration of landuse transport models. Comparison and evaluation of various models. Simultaneous travel demand models: Parameter Estimation and Validation. Travel Data collection and use of surveys. The role of transportation planning in the overall regional system. Methodology and models for regional transportation system, planning, implementation framework and case studies. Applications to passenger and freight movement in urban area. Implications for policy formulations and analysis.