Republic of the Philippines

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao

PHILIPPINE ENGINEERING AND AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE, INC.
Marawi City

ModuleNo.1:
Module No.1:Introduction
Planning intoTransportation Engineering
Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis

TIME FRAME: 1 Week Lecture

General Overview

 Planning – defined as the activity or process that examines the potentials of future actions to
guide a situation or a system toward a desired direction, for example towards the attainment of
positive goals, the avoidance of problems or both. It is conceptual and premeditative process the
precedes decision. It is oriented to the future, concerned with actions to be taken at various times
in the future.

 Specific focus of Planning: Concentrated in particular areas, subjects or system.

Important notes in Planning

 It is often said that everything is related to everything else, therefore, any event or human action
affects everything else ultimately in ways beyond the limits of human comprehension. As a
matter of practicality, planning is not a search for ultimate answers but only a means to specific
ends that is based on the proposition that better conditions would result from premeditatative
rather than impulsive actions.

 Planning is influenced largely by: technological innovations, private interests, politics and
government policies.

TRANSPORTATION

 Transportation helps shape an area’s economic health and quality of life. Not only does the
transportation system provide for the mobility of people and goods, it also influences patterns of
growth and economic activity by providing access to land. The performance of the system affects
public policy concerns like air quality, environmental resource consumption, social equity, land
use, urban growth, economic development, safety, and security. Transportation planning
recognizes the critical links between transportation and other societal goals. The planning process
is more than merely listing highway and transit capital projects. It requires developing strategies
for operating, managing, maintaining, and financing the area’s transportation system in such a
way as to advance the area’s long-term goals.

TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
  The purpose of transportation is to provide efficient access to various activities that satisfy human
needs

 Therefore the general role of transportation planning is to accommodate this need for mobility.
Within the specific contexts, however, whose mobility, for what purpose, by what means, at what
cost, and, whom and who should do the planning.

Transportation planning includes a number of steps:

 Monitoring existing conditions;

 Forecasting future population and employment growth, including assessing projected land uses in
the region and identifying major growth corridors;

 Identifying current and projected future transportation problems and needs and analyzing, through
detailed planning studies, various transportation improvement strategies to address those needs;

 Developing long-range plans and short-range programs of alternative capital improvement and
operational strategies for moving people and goods;

 Estimating the impact of recommended future improvements to the transportation system on

environmental features, including air quality; and

 Developing a financial plan for securing sufficient revenues to cover the costs of implementing
strategies

THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS