School of Engineering and Technology, (SET)
 
CE73.36 : Transportation Planning Methods and Analysis  3(3-0)
 
Course objectives:

There arevarious mathematical analysis methods, which are utilized in transportation studies. Transportation engineers must understand these methods, especially statistics and probability concepts in engineering.
 
Learning Outcomes:

In this class, the fundamental mathematics, statistics, and probability theory required for studying transportation planning will be taught. In addition, the rationales of transportation planning approaches also will be discussed. The newly introduced theories and approaches after early 90’s will be included briefly.

 
Pre-requisite(s):

None
 
Course Outline:
I.      Background and Introduction
1.      The objective of transportation planning
2.      The history of transportation service
3.      The development of transportation planning study
4.      Land use and network travel pattern
5.      Using models in transportation planning

II.     The overview of modeling travel choice
1.      How to model travel decision
2.      Backgrounds for travel demand analysis
3.      Economic consumer theory
4.      Prerequisite knowledge for understanding travel demand forecasting

III.    Fundamentals for transportation data analysis
1.      Background and introduction
2.      Basic techniques for summarizing sample survey data
3.      Introduction of probabilistic theory
4.      Probability of multiple random variables
5.      Data survey in transportation planning

IV.    Statistic analysis for random  sample
1.      Simple random sampling and analysis
2.      Hypothesis test
3.      Parametric test
4.      Nonparametric statistical test
5.      Transportation planning with advanced data collecting technologies
 
 
Learning Resources:

Textbook:
Lecture notes provided by the instructor
 
Reference Books:
 Modelling transport (1990) written by Juan de Dios Ortuzar and Luis G. Willumsen
 Transportation demand analysis (1983) written by Adib Kanafani
 Urban travel demand modeling (1994) written by Norbert Oppenheim
 Urban Transportation networks (1985) written by Yosef Sheffi
 Class note (2003) written by Will W. Recker in UCI
 Class note (2004) written by Stephen G. Ritchie in UCI
 Class notes (2003, 2004, 2005) written by R. Jayakrishnan in UCI
 Class notes (2004) written by Michael G. McNally in UCI
 
Journals and Magazines:
Regional Science and Urban Economics
 
Transportation Research Record, TRB
 
 
 
Evaluation Scheme:
Mid-Semester Examination      30%
Final Examination                       40%
Assignments                                30%
 
Closed book exams.
 
Instructor(s):
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