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Issues for Today
• Transportation planning and decision making
• Multimodal transportation planning
• Travel behavior and population characteristics
• Sustainable transportation
• Assignment for next class
Transportation system
– Mobility of people and goods– Influences patterns of growth and economic
activity
Changes to system to achieve following objectives
– Improved air quality– Enhanced viability of economic centers– Increased mobility – Promote sustainable community
development
Product of planning is…
– Understanding problems
– Identifying alternatives
– Selecting best alternative
– Developing implementation strategies
Planning inputs decision making process
– Outline of investments necessary to correct system deficiencies
– Operations improvements to existing network
– Technological improvements to existing network
Communication should be such that:
– Limited technical/analytical aptitude of decision makers
– Desired information is available– Needed information is available
Decision makers
– Elected officials– Transportation agency managers– Private sector shipping managers– Corporate officials concerned with employee
transportation
A transportation plan
– View of future system characteristics– Provides context for subarea project studies– Anticipate future development– Influence where future development occurs
Decision-oriented transportation planning
– First: understand how the decisions will be made
– Second: determine the information requirements for those decisions
– Third: identify data and analyses needed to produce required information
Moscow, Idaho Case
– Pedestrian network– Bike network– Roads network– Bus network– Rail network– Intermodal connector
Becoming a Less Auto Dependent City
– Supply management:
– Demand management: actions taken to influence demand intensity, timing, spatial distribution
– Land use management: trip making patterns, volumes, and model distributions are function of spatial distribution of land use
Travel Behavior and Travel Pattern Factors
– population characteristics– economy– societal concerns– transportation legislation– technology of planning
Population Characteristics Influencing Travel Behavior
– Trips per capita– Population distribution– Employment– Telecommuting**– Occupation**– Bus fees**
Sustainable transportation
• Cleaner fuel• Change transportation pricing to reflect true
societal costs
Assignments
• Reading 2: “Todd Litman sustainable transportation measures.pdf”
– Due 8/26
• Reading 3: http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm67.htm
– Due 8/26
• Homework 1: Due Friday 8/26
• Homework 2: Due Monday 8/29