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Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering Civil Engineering: B.E. Soe and Syllabus 2014-15

This document provides information about the 8th semester Civil Engineering course "PE III: Urban Transportation Planning" at Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering. The course objectives are to understand planning, analysis and implementation of transportation systems, traffic forecasting and its environmental impacts, trip generation and distribution studies, and traffic regulation systems. The course is evaluated based on mid-semester exams, assignments, a teaching assistant evaluation, and an end-semester exam. The course covers topics like transportation planning processes, traffic forecasting methods, environmental impacts of traffic, trip generation and distribution modeling, modes of urban transportation, traffic regulation systems, and applications of intelligent transportation systems.

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Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering Civil Engineering: B.E. Soe and Syllabus 2014-15

This document provides information about the 8th semester Civil Engineering course "PE III: Urban Transportation Planning" at Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering. The course objectives are to understand planning, analysis and implementation of transportation systems, traffic forecasting and its environmental impacts, trip generation and distribution studies, and traffic regulation systems. The course is evaluated based on mid-semester exams, assignments, a teaching assistant evaluation, and an end-semester exam. The course covers topics like transportation planning processes, traffic forecasting methods, environmental impacts of traffic, trip generation and distribution modeling, modes of urban transportation, traffic regulation systems, and applications of intelligent transportation systems.

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YESHWANTRAO CHAVAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

B.E. SoE and Syllabus 2014-15


Civil Engineering
VIII SEMESTER
CV1451 PE III: Urban Transportation Planning L=3 T=0 P=0 CREDITS = 3
MSE-I MSE-II TA ESE Total ESE Duration
Evaluation Scheme
15 15 10 60 100 4 hours

COURSE OBJECTIVES COURSE OUTCOMES


Students Understood about: 1. Students understood about traffic forecasting and its
effects on environment.
1. Importance of Planning, analysis and implementation.
2. Students understood the necessity and importance of
2. Traffic forecasting and Environmental impacts.
Traffic regulations.
3. O &D Studies based on trip distribution and
3. Students understood the necessity and arrangement
generation.
of street lighting.
4. Various Modes and Model split analysis
4. Students understood about planning process and
5. Traffic Regulation, ITS in urban traffic and illumination
traffic problems.
system.
Mapped Program Outcomes: a, b, c, e, h, i, k
UNIT – 1 :
Importance of urban transport planning
Transport Planning Process: Scope, Independence of the land use and traffic, system approach to transport
planning, stages, survey and analysis, forecast analysis and future condition of plan synthesis, evolution, programme
adoption and implementation, continuing study, citizen participation, difficulties in transport planning process.
[07 Hrs.]
UNIT – 2 :
Traffic forecasting: Necessity, Limitations, Types of traffic, Methods of forecasting, Period of forecasting.
Traffic and environment: Introduction, Detrimental effects on environment, Noise, Air pollution, vibration, Visual
intrusion and degrading aesthetics, Severance and land consumption, evaluation procedure, environmental areas,
situation in India.
[06 Hrs.]
UNIT – 3 :
Trip Generation: introduc6tion and definition, trip purpose, factors governing trip generation and attraction rates.
Trip Distribution: Introduction, Methods: Uniform factor method, Average factor method. Farther method, Furness
Method, Criticism of Growth factor method, Tranner‟s Model, Gravity Model, Opportunity Model. Delay studies.
[06 Hrs.]
UNIT – 4 :
Model Split: General consideration, factors affecting, Model split in transport planning process, recent development.
Mode choice analysis. Introduction to Various modes of urban transportation: Local trains, Metro, Monorails, BRTS
and MRTS.
[07 Hrs.]
UNIT – 5 :
Regulation of traffic: Basic principles of regulation, scope of traffic regulation, traffic laws, regulation of speed,
vehicles, driver & traffic, parking & enforcement regulations, motor vehicle act.
[06 Hrs.]
UNIT – 6 :
Nature of traffic problems in cities: Growth of town & traffic, present difficulties in urban traffic condition, measures,
Application of ITS in urban traffic management, VMS, Signal coordination, parking management.
Urban Street Light systems: Need, laws of illumination, decrement by artificial lightening, appearance of lighted
pavement, types of surface, distribution of light, mounting height, spacing, lantern arrangement, types of lamps,
quantity of illumination, lamp installation of T-junction and cross roads, illumination of traffic rotaries, lighting at
bends, dual carriageway, roads, bridges, tunnels, maintenance of lightening installation.
[07 Hrs.]
Text books:
1. Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning, Kadiyali, L.R, Khanna Publishers
2. Principles & Practice of Highway Engineering, Chakroborty P Das, Khanna Publisher, 2000
3. Highway Engineering, Rangawala B.S, Charotar Publishing House, 2011
Reference books:
1. IRC Handbook and MOST Specifications, Indian Road Congress
2. Fundamentals of Transportation and traffic Operations. Pergamon, Elsevier science Inc
3. Institute of Transportation Engineers, „Manual of Transportation Engineering Studies‟, Prentice Hall

1.02 May 2017 Applicable for AY 2017-


Chairperson Dean (Acad. Matters) Version Date of Release 18 Onwards

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