TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT

COURSE NO: LGUD-422

NO. OF CREDIT -04
Details of lecture plan

SL No NAME OF THE TOPICS

TRANSPORT PLANNING PROCESS
Interdependence of the Land Use and Traffic
Role of Transportation in National Development

1 Levels in Transport Planning

System approach to transport planning

Stages in Transport Planning

TRAFFIC SURVEYS & GEOMETRIC DESIGN

Speed, Journey Time and Delay Studies
Use of Speed, Journey Time and Delay Studies
Methods of Measuring Spot Speeds
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Methods for Measurement of Running Speed and Journey Speed

Advantages of the method

Vehicle Volume Counts
3 Types of Counts
Method Available for Traffic Counts
Origin -Destination Survey
4 Need for Origin -Destination Survey
Method Available for Origin -Destination Survey
Parking Surveys
Need for Parking Surveys
Types of Parking Surveys
5  Parking space inventory
 Parking usage survey by patrol.
 Questionnaire type parking usage survey.
 Cordon count
Geometric Design
Highway Classification
Cross-sectional Elements
Typical cross-sections
Principles considered in a Intersections design
6
At-grade and grade separated junctions
Basic forms of at-grade intersections
Channelization, Features of Channelizing Islands
T-Intersection
Rotary intersection (round about)

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Guidelines for selecting a rotary type of intersection
Types of grade-separated intersections
Parking
Traffic and Parking Problems
Zoning and Parking Space Requirement Standards
7
Design Standards for On-street Parking Facilities
Off-street Parking Facilities
Bus-bays
Highway Capacity
Passenger Car Units (PCUs)
8
Level of Service Concept in the HCM Manual
Factors Affecting Capacity and Level of Service
TRANSPORT PLANNING
Value of travel time savings
Classes of transport users enjoying travel time saving
9 Economic concept of evaluation of travel time saving
Certain issues connected with evaluation of time savings enjoyed by
passengers
Methodology for monetary evaluation of passengers’ travel time
Method of economic evaluation of transportation plans
What is economic evaluation
Objectives of economic evaluation
Cost benefit analysis of transport project
Benefit cost ratio method
10
First year rate of return method
Net present value method
Internal rate of return
Problem solving
Comparison of the various methods of economic evaluation
Accident cost
Relevance of accident costing for a developing country
11
Review of alternative methodologies for accident costing
Certain issues connected with accident costing
Road accident data analysis
The global burden of road traffic injuries
Road traffic injury pyramid Bangladesh
Key governmental agencies
12
Collection of accident data
Nature of collision
Typical collision, Condition diagram at a junction
Collision diagrams ‘before’ and ‘after’ reconstruction

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Statistical methods for analysis of accident data
Road and its effect on accident
Road factors
Weather and its effect on accidents
13 Skidding
Factors determining skid resistance
Road construction practices for obtaining skid resistance
Safety measures
Pedestrian safety
The road and its influence on the pedestrian accidents
Pedestrian crossing design
14 Safe system countermeasures for pedestrian safety
Transportation System Management
Travel Demand Management
Weil-known traffic management measures
Urban transport policy
Urban characteristics in Bangladesh
Objectives of National land transport policy
15
Main features and policies of STP for Dhaka
Exploitation of para-transit and NMVS
Steps taken for Dhaka to improve sustainable transport
Public Transport (BRT, MRT)
Importance of mass transit
Attributes of a well-organized MTS
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
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Difference among metro, light rail, BRT
Introducing BRTS in Dhaka
BRT example Curitiba, Bogota
The mass rapid transit (MRT)

Sourav Das
Assistant Professor ,
Department of urban and regional planning
Chittagong university of engineering and technology (CUET)
E-mail: souravurp09@cuet.ac.bd
Mob: 01717010156