Tutorial Manual

2160608 - URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

SEMESTER: 6

CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE - DAHOD

Academic Year: 2019-20

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environmental issues.

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produce professional civil engineers, innovators and entrepreneurs for the
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1. To provide quality education to civil engineering undergraduates through

creative balance of academic, professional and extra-curricular activities.

2. To impart knowledge in the field of civil engineering for the development of

infrastructure facilities with environmental concern for betterment of the society.

3. To contribute in the nation's development through innovative ideas in the field

of civil engineering.
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1. Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering

fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering
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and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
12. Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in
independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
 :: PROGRAM SPECIFIC OUTCOMES (PSOs) ::

Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs) are what the graduates of a specific

undergraduate engineering program should be able to do at the time of graduation.

Civil Engineering Graduates shall have

PSO 1: Ability to analyze, design, construct, maintain and rehabilitate the

infrastructural projects, using the knowledge of subjects related to planning,
construction, structural analysis and design, surveying, geotechnical,
transportation, environment and water resource engineering as well as project
management.

PSO 2: Ability to employ advanced civil equipments, software, and techniques,

interact and work seamlessly in teams.

PSO 3: Ability to apply gained knowledge to choose from the innovative career
paths, to be an entrepreneur, and a zest for higher studies.

:: PROGRAMME EDUCATION OBJECTIVES (PEOs) ::

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accomplishments that programs are preparing graduates to attain within a few
years (3-5 years) of graduation.

Following are the PEOs of B.E Civil Engineering Program:

1. Establish themselves as civil engineering professionals in government, public

and private sectors
2. Manage infrastructural and sanitary facilities
3. Solve real world problems environmental concerns to serve society
4. Adapt to changing trends in analysis and design of civil engineering
structures.
5. To do testing, survey and planning of civil engineering structures using
modern tools
 :: COURSE OUTCOMES (COS) ::
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know, and be able to do at the end of each course. These relate to the skills, knowledge,
and behaviour that students acquire in their matriculation through the course.

PROGRAM NAME: B.E. CIVIL ENGINEERING

COURSE NAME: 2160608 URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

Weightage
SEMESTER: 6 A.Y 2019-20
%
2160608.1 Discuss features of Urban transportation, illustrate terminology used in Urban 10%
Transport, Transport System Planning and Modeling techniques.
2160608.2 Describe different urban mass-transportation systems, types of transit systems, 15%
their merits and demerits, and compare them.
2160608.3 Explain land use planning models and transportation interaction, illustrate study 20%
area and its related parameters.
2160608.4 Analyse and workout travel demand modeling and its stages/bifurcation based on 35%
given data and conditions, and apply the knowledge to real life problems.
2160608.5 Summarize mass transit systems, its routing and scheduling, identify its 20%
performance-parameters, prepare comprehensive plan.

DISTRIBUTION OF THEORY MARKS

R Level U Level A Level N Level E Level C Level
15% 15% 10% 20% 30% 10%
Legends: R: Remembrance; U: Understanding; A: Application; N: Analyze; E: Evaluate C: Create and above Levels (As
per revised Bloom’s Taxonomy)

:: TEACHING AND EXAMINATION SCHEME ::

Teaching Scheme Credits Examination Total

L T P C Theory Marks Marks Practical Marks
ESE PA (M) ESE (V) PA Marks
PA ALA ESE OEP
3 1 0 4 (E)
70 20 10 30 0 (I)
20 150

ESE - END SEMESTER EXAMINATION, PA - PROGRESS ASSESSMENT, ALA - ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS, OEP -
OPEN ENDED PROBLEM
 :: TUTORIAL PLANNING ::

COURSE NAME: 2160608 URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

Semester: 6 Division: A
Faculty Members: A1 Prof S M Damodariya (SMD) A2 Prof H D Golakiya (HDG)
A3 Prof D K Oza (DKO) A4 Prof V S Shah (VSS)

Sr. Content Topic Name Planned Actual Total

No. Date Date Hours
1 Tutorial – 1 URBANIZATION AND URBAN TRANSPORT PLANNING
2 Tutorial – 2 URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
3 Tutorial – 3 INTRODUCTION TO LANDUSE PLANNING &
TRANSPORTATION SURVEYS
4 Tutorial – 4 TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING
5 Tutorial – 5 MASS TRANSIT DESIGN, TRANSPORT CORRIDOR,
URBAN FORMS, URBAN GOODS MOVEMENT &
PLAN PREPARATION

COURSE NAME: 2160608 URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

Semester: 6 Division: B
Faculty Member: B1 Prof H D Golakiya (HDG) B2 Prof S M Damodariya (SMD)
B3 Prof N B Kagra (NBK) B4 Prof J N Bhojawala (JNB)

Sr. Content Topic Name Planned Actual Total

No. Date Date Hours
1 Tutorial – 1 URBANIZATION AND URBAN TRANSPORT PLANNING
2 Tutorial – 2 URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
3 Tutorial – 3 INTRODUCTION TO LANDUSE PLANNING &
TRANSPORTATION SURVEYS
4 Tutorial – 4 TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING
5 Tutorial – 5 MASS TRANSIT DESIGN, TRANSPORT CORRIDOR,
URBAN FORMS, URBAN GOODS MOVEMENT & PLAN
PREPARATION

:: REFERENCE BOOKS ::
1. Kadiyali L.R., Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning, Khanna Publishers
2. S.C. Saxena, Traffic Planning and Design, Dhanpat Rai Pub., New Delhi.
3. Partho Chakraborty and Animesh Das, Principles of Transportation Engineering, PHI.
4. J.Ortuzer and L.G. Willumsen, Modelling Transport, Johan Wiley and Sons
Chincester,1994
 :: INDEX ::
Sign of
Sr. Page CO
Date Title Marks Faculty
No. No. attained
with Date
URBANIZATION AND URBAN
1 TRANSPORT PLANNING CO1
URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION
2 SYSTEMS
CO2

INTRODUCTION TO LANDUSE
PLANNING & TRANSPORTATION CO3
3
SURVEYS
TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING
4 CO4
MASS TRANSIT DESIGN, TRANSPORT
CORRIDOR, URBAN FORMS, URBAN
5 GOODS MOVEMENT & PLAN
CO5

PREPARATION
 CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT,
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE – DAHOD

TUTORIAL - ASSIGNMENTS - ELECTIVE – URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2160608)

Academic Year: 2019-20

TUTORIAL -1: URBANIZATION AND URBAN TRANSPORT PLANNING

1. What is Urbanization? State the reasons of Urbanization. Discuss merits and

demerits of urbanization.
2. Define the terms: - (i) Trip (ii) mobility (iii) Accessibility (iv) Horizon year (v) Base year
3. Critically discuss the trend of urban population in the country and worldwide and
explain the challenges for a transportation planner thereafter. Use official data.
4. Explain the problems in the urban transportation in the present scenario of high
vehicle ownership.
5. List out the different drawbacks of transportation. Explain in brief.
6. Define Urban area. What are the trends in urbanization? Write about urban class
groups.

7. Explain different levels of urban Transportation Planning stages of with sketch.

8. Explain with flowchart stages involved in “Urban Transportation System Planning
Process” – Systems approach.

9. What are the goals and objectives of urban transportation planning? Describe in
detail.
10. What is modelling technique in transportation planning? What is model validation?
 TUTORIAL 2 : URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

1. Discuss the concept of travel demand. Enlist and explain the factors affecting travel
demand.
2. What is urban mass transit system? Why is important for an urban area? Explain
briefly.
3. Enlist and explain various urban mass transportation systems with their
capacities and suitability.
4. Explain private travel and Para transit.
5. Write short notes on: Metro Rail Transit System and Bus Rapid Transit System
6. Explain by giving formula for transit line capacity.
7. What is BRTS system? Write advantage and disadvantage of it?
8. What is coordination with respect to transportation engineering?
9. Explain different types of coordination of transport modes.
10. On an urban corridor regular bus transit is operated with headway of 15
minutes during peak hour. The reliability of transit arrival at a stop is observed 90%. If
the seating capacity of a bus is 60 and load factor 1.5, calculate the vehicle capacity of
transit if 50% schedule is operated.

11. Find maximum capacity per hour of BRT and METRO for the frequency of 120
trips per hour.
 TUTORIAL 3: INTRODUCTION TO LANDUSE PLANNING & TRANSPORTATION SURVEYS

1. What is land use? Discuss the transportation as the function of the same. Use neat
figures.
2. Define the following:
i. Land use ii. Study area iii. CBD
iv. Screen Line v. Cordon line vi. Zones
vii. Home based and Non home based trips
3. Explain – Environment-Land use and Transportation (ELT) with sketch of urban system.
4. What is Zoning? Discuss the points to be kept in mind while doing zoning.
5. Explain the various methods of origin and destination surveys with their
advantages and disadvantages.
6. State the symbols and values for standard normal variable, for confidence levels 80 %,
90 %, 95 %, 98 % and 99 %.
7. In a transportation survey desired to obtain the speed with the average speed within
03 km / h, with the probability of 95 %, considering the standard deviation of speed
as 10 km / h, determine the size of the sample.

8. What do you understand by sampling? Discuss the various types of sampling. Also
discuss about the various survey data checks.

9. Explain by drawing curve accuracy is checked by screen line analysis of O & D studies
data.
10. Enlist the types of transportation surveys and explain two in detail.
11. Which are the methods of O-D Survey? Describe in detail any one method.
which provides detailed information.
 TUTORIAL 4: TRAVEL DEMAND MODELING

1. Briefly explain sequential travel demand analysis procedure with a flow chart.
2. What is Trip Generation? Explain in detail the factors governing trip
generation & attraction rates.
3. Enlist the methods of trip generation analysis. Explain zonal regression analysis in detail.

4. Explain with example category analysis for trip generation analysis.

5. Explain Gravity Model. Derive the equation for the trip distribution by Gravity model.
6. Compare pre-distribution modal split (trip end modal split) and post-
distribution modal split (trip interchange modal split).

7. What do you understand by route TUTORIAL? Explain various traffic TUTORIAL techniques
briefly.
8. Enlist the different methods of trip distribution methods explain in detail
average growth factor method.
9. What are the factors influencing on individual choice of travel mode? Explain Trips end
model and Trip interchange model with formula.

10. Enlist the factors affecting the Route choice. Explain TRC trip assignment model.
11. What are the general principles of Traffic assignment?
12. Briefly explain the Moore’s algorithm of route assignment analysis
13. The following data was collected for a small town.

Zone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Population in zone (000) All batches 25 19 29 24 17 19 22 27

Total trips Generated (00) Batch 1 13 12 18 10 16 14 10 13
Total trips Generated (00) Batch 2 14 12 16 13 11 12 9 15
Total trips Generated (00) Batch 3 15 14 17 14 9 11 13 12
Total trips Generated (00) Batch 4 16 14 16 13 8 12 13 14

Develop a linear regression model for trips generated from a zone. If the population in a
particular zone increases to 36500, predict the expected trip generations from that zone.
14. The following data of trips per day was collected for a city area for various family income
groups. Develop the linear regression model for the trips generated for this data. Also, find
out the no. of trips generated if income reaches to Rs. 75000/-.

Income in ‘000 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50 50-55 55-60 60-65 65-70

Trips Batch 1 5 6 7 9 12 15 19 23

Trips Batch 2 6 7 9 12 15 19 23 25

Trips Batch 3 7 9 12 15 19 23 25 28

Trips Batch 4 7 9 12 15 19 23 25 30

15.
16.

17.
Zone 1 2 3 4

GF - Batch 1 2.5 1.5 3 No growth

GF - Batch 2 2.2 1.6 3.5 No growth

GF - Batch 3 2.8 1.8 2.5 No growth

GF - Batch 4 3 2 3 No growth

Trip Interchanges 1-2 1-3 1-4 2-1 2-3 2-4 3-1 3-2 3-4 4-1 4-2 4-3
in base year
600 800 0 600 500 0 300 500 0 0 0 0

For four selected zones the above data were collected.

Calculate only First iteration of all zonal interchanges by Average Growth factor
method.

18. An origin zone i with 20 base year trips going to zone j, k and l numbering 4, 6 and 10 trips
respectively, has growth factors of 2, 3, 4 and 5 for i, j, k and l respectively in 20 years.
Determine the future trips from I to j, k and l by Fratar method.
19. The overall growth factor of the area along with the growth factor of individual zones and
present trip distribution numbers are shown in figure below. Using Uniform, average and
Detroit method distribute the trips to the various zones.

20. A 4-zone city has two residential zones, A and B, generating 725 and 575 trips respectively.
These trips go to Two-employment zones C and D, attracting 875 and 425 trips respectively.
The travel time in minutes between zones is AC = 8, BC = 10, BD = 13 and AD=15. Friction
factor (Fij) corresponding to travel time are 90, 75, 60 and 45 respectively taken for Gravity
model. What is distribution of trips? Assume Kij = 1.

21. Calculate the interzonal interchanges by competing opportunity model due to 200
production at zone A, with 300 attraction at zone B, 200 attractions at zone C and 500
attractions at zone D. Assume that travel time between A-B is 10 minutes, A-C is 15 minute,
and A-D is 20 minutes.
22.

23. A mode choice model for a city includes Auto(A), Buses(B) and Rapid rail (R). The utility
functions are as under:
Function Cost (C) Time (T) in min
in Rs. Batch 1 Batch 2 Batch 3 Batch 4
U(A)= 4.2- 0.4C - 0.05T 10 40 42 43 44
U(B)= -0.3 C - 0.05T 4.5 50 48 49 52
U(R)= 2.5-0.4C- 0.06T 7 45 46 47 48
As per estimation 28000 workers will move each morning to work then how many
workers will choose to take a particular mode?
24. The design year total person trips between 4 zones distributed are shown in the table
below. The Modal Split analysis shows 30/70 (Batch1), 35/65 (Batch2), 40/60 (Batch3),
45/55(Batch4) for private cars vs. public transport, as an overall split. The peak period
car occupancy is 2.0 persons per car and 50 persons per bus.

D A B C D

O
A - 1800 600 2200
B 500 - 650 580
C 600 1400 - 1620
D 400 350 630 -

If the goods vehicles constitute @ 18 % of the person vehicle trips, calculate the
total vehicle trips.
25.
26. The total trip volumes from zone 1 to zone 2 are 3500. Find the volume on each route
connecting two zones for the following data by TRC trip assignment:
Route No. 1 2 3 4
Length (miles) 2.0 1.7 1.0 2.5
Speed (kmph) Batch 1 35 22 12 18
Speed (kmph) Batch 2 33 21 13 19
Speed (kmph) Batch 3 32 22 14 18
Speed (kmph) Batch 4 30 23 13 19

27. There are two routes, whose characteristics are given in the following table. The total trips
between two zones are 1200 trips per hour. Assign the traffic volumes on the routes.
Route Number Speed Length Critical Critical travel Ideal travel with
number of lanes limit (miles) volume time no volume
(mph) Vph/lane (min/mile) (min/mile)
Batch 1 1 One 30 3 600 3 2.5

2 One 50 4 1100 2 1.5

Batch 2 1 One 30 3 700 3 2.5

2 One 50 4 1200 2 1.5

Batch 3 1 One 30 3 650 3 2.5

2 One 50 4 1150 2 1.5

Batch 4 1 One 30 3 600 3 2.5

2 One 50 4 1050 2 1.5

28. From the following network, show the minimum path based upon travel time indicated on
the links and assign trips to minimum tree and find total volume on each link:
Trip Volumes
To node

From A B C D
Node
A - 50 75 35

B 28 - 105 48

C 65 187 - 95

D 125 35 205 -
 TUTORIAL -5 - MASS TRANSIT DESIGN, TRANSPORT
CORRIDOR, URBAN FORMS, URBAN GOODS MOVEMENT & PLAN PREPARATION

1. What is corridor? Explain by drawing sketch typical corridor components.

2. Write about characteristics of Rail transit. Also, write about capacity, fare structure
and route planning for rail transit in brief.
3. Show the various types of urban structures with the help of neat sketches.
4. Explain about point, segment, segment capacity and screen line with neat sketches.
5. Classify the various types of urban road patterns with the help of neat sketches.
6. Write short note on Urban goods movement.
7. Write short note on Transportation System Management and Planning.