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Transportation Analysis And Planning

Course Code:

GEO8010

Semester:

8th Semester

Specialization Category:

S.B.

Course Hours:

4

ECTS:

5


Course Tutors

Pavlou Dimosthenis

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After the successful completions of the course, students will be able to:

  • Know the basic concepts and principles of Transportation
  • Understand the Transport Planning Process
  • Apply the different stages of the 4-step model (trip generation, trip distribution, modal split, route assignment)
  • Evaluate the transport demand / supply analysis
  • Develop Logit polynomial / binary models

 

General Competences

After the successful completions of the course, students acquire the following knowledge and skills:

  • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
  • Team Work
  • Work in an interdisciplinary environment
  • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

 

SYLLABUS

Theoretical part of the Course

  1. Basic concepts and principles of Transportation
  2. Transport Planning Process
  3. Basic principles of systems standardization
  4. Transport systems standardization approach – The 4-step model
  5. Trip Generation
    • Growth rate models
    • Category Analysis Models
    • Regression Analysis Models
    • Dispersion diagrams
    • Procedure for predicting future trips
  6. Trip Distribution
  7. Modal Split
  8. Route assignment
  9. Transport Demand / Supply Analysis
    • Features of Demand for movement
    • Analysis of transport demand curve
    • Interaction of supply and demand
    • Elasticity analysis
    • Utility function
    • Indifference curves
  10. Discrete Options Analysis
  11. Statistics concepts
    • Data collection methods
    • Zoning system
  12. Logit polynomial model, Binary Logit Model

 

Lab Part of the Course
Preparation of a group exercise (groups of 4) to investigate the trips from / to UNIWA Campus

 

STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Language of evaluation: Greek
Theoretical part of the Course
• Written exam (70%)
Lab Part of the Course
• Partial and Overall Presentation of a semester topic (30%)

 

ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. I. Frantzeskakis, J. Giannopoulos, “Design of Transportation Systems and Traffic Engineering”, Vol. 1, Paratiritis, 1986
2. K. Αμπακούμκιν, “Design of Transportation Systems”, NTUA, 1986
3. P. Stopher, A. Mayburg, “Urban Transportation and Planning”, Lexington, 1975
4. G. Aberle, “Transportwirtschaft”, Oldenbourg, 1997