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Course Description

CE 314. Transportation And Traffic Engineering

Text Book
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Traffic and Highway Engineering 4th Edition by N. J. Garber

and L.A. Hoel

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Highway Engineering, 7Th Edition By Paul H Wright ,

Karen Dixon

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Outcome Assessment
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Exams

y Two Midterm Exams

y Home Work
y Project
y Final Exam

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Lecture 6

y First Midterm
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Lecture 12

y Second Midterm
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All Lecture

y Final
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Transportation & Traffic Engineering

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Definition: Transportation engineering is the application of

technology and scientific principles to the planning,
functional design, operation, and management of facilities for
any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe,
rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and
environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.

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Traffic engineering is the uses of engineering techniques

to achieve safe, efficient, and economic movement of
people or vehicles or goods on a facility...

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Transportation System
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Definition of Transportation Modes

A transportation system is an infrastructure that serves to
move people and goods efficiently.
Efficient = safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical,
environmentally compatible.

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Land transportation

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oil, gas, other

Pipelines

Transportation System

Rail
Water transportation

inland, coastal, ocean

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Heavy Rail

Light Rail

Express Bus Transit

Local Bus Transit

Taxi/For-Hire Vehicles

Automobile

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Transportation System

Ferry

Urban People Transportation Systems

Intercity People-Transportation Systems

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Urban and Intercity Freight Transportation

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Road
Air transportation

Air
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Transportation System
Urban People Transportation Systems
Intercity People-Transportation Systems
Automobile
Intercity Bus
Railroad

Air
Water

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Urban and Intercity Freight Transportation

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Transportation System
Urban People Transportation Systems
Intercity People-Transportation Systems

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Urban and Intercity Freight Transportation

Long-Haul Trucks
Local Trucks

Railroad
Water
Air Freight
Pipelines

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Mode

Origin

DESTINAT

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(Cars, Planes, Trains, etc.)

Vehicle / Service

(Time Schedule,
arrivals/departures
intervals,.etc.)

Operation
n Plans

COMPONENTS OF ANY TRANSPORT SYSTEM

(People & Goods)

Users / Freight

Infrastructure

Path (Roads, Airlines,Railroads,Pipelines)

Purpose

Time

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Trip

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Terminals (Airports, Railway Stations,.etc.)

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Origin A

DESTINAT

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Transportation is every thing involved in the moving

people or goods from origin to a destination

The process of moving passengers or goods from origin to a destination

with in certain time for certain purpose with a certain mode of
transportation.

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Trip
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Trip Generation models determine the mathematical

relationship between the number of trips produced in a zone
and the land use and the socio-economic characteristics.

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Trip Distribution models connect the trip-ends predicted by

the trip generation models between any set of two zones.
Trip Assignment is the procedure by which the route
chosen by a traveler is determined.

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Modal Split determines the mode of travel chosen by the

traveler.
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Definitions
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Trip Generation models determine the mathematical

relationship between the number of trips produced in a zone
and the land use and the socio-economic characteristics.

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Definitions
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Trip Distribution models connect the trip-ends predicted by

the trip generation models between any set of two zones.

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Definitions
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Modal Split determines the mode of travel chosen by the

traveler.

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Trip Assignment is the procedure by which the route chosen

by a traveler is determined.

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Transportation Related Problems

Congestion

Lack of safety

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Degeneration of the environment

(Air Pollution, Noise, Oil Spells)
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Transportation and Land Use

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Transportation is a function of the land

use and vice versa. (Mitchell and Rapkin1954)
Some Land Use Types:
Residential
Industrial
Recreational
Open spaces
Educational
Commercial

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Transportation and Land Use

Measures of Land Use

Socio-Economic Parameters:

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Population
Population Characteristics
Housing Statistics
No. of Families
No. of Households
Employment/Unemployment
Income
Vehicle ownership

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Transportation and Land Use

Measures of Land Use

Socio-Economic Parameters:

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Population
Population Characteristics
Housing Statistics
No. of Families
No. of Households
Employment/Unemployment
Income
Vehicle ownership

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Highway Functional Classification

Functional classification
groups streets and highways
according to the character of
service they are intended
to provide.
Local Streets

Collectors

Arterials

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Urban and Rural Areas

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Urban Areas are those places having a population of

5,000 or more.

Urban Areas are further subdivided into:

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Urbanized areas (population of 50,000 and over)

Small urban areas (population between 5,000 and 50,000).

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Rural Areas: areas outside urban areas.

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Structure of Road Networks

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An arterial road, is a high-capacity urban/rural road.

The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic
from collectors to freeways, and between urban centers at
the highest level of service possible.

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Arterials are either principal or minor.

A collector road is a low-to-moderate-capacity road which
serves to move traffic from local streets to arterial roads.

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Transportation Planning
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The science that seeks to study the problems that arise in

providing transportation facilities in an urban, regional or
national setting and to prepare a systematic basis for
planning such facilities.

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