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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Course Overview

The online certification course on Urban Transportation Systems Planning by Swayam will be covering the challenges need for efficient and effective planning of urban transport that is required in the modern-day. The online program will further be addressing the- growing travel demand and will be helping to formulate strategies to maintain sustainable development in a more affordable and sustainable way. 

The Urban Transportation Systems Planning training has been divided and subdivided into nine modules that will be held for a period of twelve weeks. The session will further help in capacity building amongst policymakers, master students, and practitioners.  

The Urban Transportation Systems Planning certification syllabus includes- Probit analysis, Logit model, Nested logit model, Two-stage modal split models, Multinomial logit model, Estimation of logit models. The course will be helping the students to make decisions and transport planning to make the urban transport more efficient and effective.

The Highlights

  • The course is imparted by Swayam 
  • 12 weeks course duration
  • The program provided by Swayam 
  • Certificate of completion by IIT Kharagpur and NPTEL

Programme Offerings

  • case study
  • Lectures
  • videos
  • Self-assessments
  • online learning
  • Quiz
  • test
  • Books
  • references
  • Reading Material

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIIT Kharagpur
  • The Urban Transportation Systems Planning fee for registration is free. 
  • The students need to deposit Rs.1,000/- as examination fees

Urban Transportation Systems Planning fees details

Particulars

Amount

Registration fee

Free

Examination fee

Rs.1,000/-


Eligibility Criteria

Certification Qualification Details

To issue the Urban Transportation Systems Planning certification, the students have to get registered for the final examination. The candidates are required to get 75% marks in the end-term exam. They should also get an average of 25% in 8 out of 12 assignments.

What you will learn

Knowledge of Urban Planning

In the Urban Transportation Systems Planning online course, the applied candidates will deal with-

  • Students will be learning about the difficulties faced by the urban traffic systems.
  • The basic concepts with regard to planning and managing traffic will be given.
  • The facilities that are required for good terminal connectivity will also be covered.
  • Candidates will be studying the urban goods movement.
  • In the Urban Transportation Systems Planning certification syllabus, the link cost function is included
  • The general cost link function and its application is also included.
  • The advantages of disaggregate over the aggregate models are also incorporated in the course syllabus.
  • Students in the program schedule will be studying the multinomial logit model.
  • They will be working on the two-stage modal split models.
  • The binary logit model will also be studied by the enrolled students.

Who it is for

The Urban Transportation Systems Planning program is for-

  • Students who are pursuing their M.E. or M.Tech. degree from the domain of transportation engineering or equivalent course can apply for this course.

Application Details

The following steps are to be followed by the candidates to secure their seat in the Urban Transportation Systems Planning online course

Step 1: The following link has to follow by the candidates- https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc22_ce34/preview

Note- Since the program is being hosted therefore an application for the course is not available now.

The Syllabus

Introduction to Urban Transportation Planning
  • Urbanization
  • Urban Transportation: Impacts, Behavioral Changes, Urban Transportation problems & Externalities- Congestion, Safety, Emissions, etc.
  • Introduction to Transport planning
  • Transport Planning Morphology: Problem definition, Solution generation, solution analysis
  • Evaluation and choice
  • Implementation Hierarchical levels of Urban Transport Planning: Conceptual Plan, Outline plan, Master plans, statutory or advisory plans, detailed development plans

Overview of 4-Stage Urban Transportation Planning Process
  • Overview of traditional four-step travel demand forecasting process: urban activity forecasts, trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, traffic assignment specification, calibration, validation, and forecasting
  • Information needs for travel demand forecasting: study area, urban activities, zoning, urban activities, transportation system, travel information, types of movements data collection techniques (home-interview survey, commercial vehicle survey, innovative commercial vehicle tracking methods, intermediate public transport survey, cordon-line survey, post-card questionnaire survey, registration – number survey, license plate follow-up survey technique, tag-on- vehicle survey)

Trip Generation
  • Introduction
  • Basic considerations in trip generation - amount of urban activity, character of urban activity, other considerations, special generators
  • Trip classification
  • Factors affecting trip generation Methods of trip Generation- Regression analysis, trip rate analysis, cross classification analysis
  • Multiple Linear Regression- Regression analysis concept
  • The step wise approach with examples

Trip Generation (Continued…)
  • Multiple Linear Regression- Considerations for zonal based multiple regression, Considerations for household based multiple regression, matching productions and attractions Category analysis- Basic approach, specifying trip generation model (trip production model structure, trip attraction model structure, Internal- External trip generation), Trip generation model calibration (developing trip production rates, developing trip attraction rates), advantages and disadvantages Stability of trip generation model- Temporal stability, geographical stability
  • Trip generation model application- Trip production model application, Trip attraction model application

Trip Distribution
  • Introduction
  • Basic considerations in Trip Distribution
  • P-A Matrix to O-D Matrix
  • Factors affecting trip distribution: Properties of transport network
  • Spatial separation between various zones Growth factor methods- Uniform factor method, Average factor method, Detroit Method, Fratar method
  • Furness method Synthetic methods -Introduction to Gravity Model

Trip Distribution (Continued…)
  • Gravity Model-  Calibration
  • BPR Approach of calibration Intervening opportunities model: concept, advantages, limitations, Illustrative example, competing opportunities model
  • Limitations doubly restrained model: concept, calibration
  • linear programming approach to trip distribution: concept, limitations

Modal split
  • Introduction
  • Influencing factors of mode choice
  • Types of modal split models- trip end type and trip interchange type
  • Types of modal split models - trip end type (southern Wisconsin model) and trip interchange type (diversion curve model), limitations, aggregate and disaggregate models, advantages of disaggregate over aggregate modeling
  • Elements of the choice decision process
  • Framework for the choice process of an individual disaggregate mode choice models- Introduction, utility theory, probabilistic choice theory

Modal Split (Continued…)
  • Binary choice models- Binary logit model, discriminant analysis, Probit analysis
  • Logit model
  • Multinomial Logit model
  • Nested logit model, Estimation of logit models, Two-stage modal split models

Traffic Assignment
  • General, link cost function, Person-trips and vehicle Trips, diurnal patterns of demand
  • Trip directions Network properties: Link, nodes, characteristics of link (capacity, free flow speed, travel time, etc.), link flows, inter-zonal flows, Network connectivity, Minimum spanning tree, shortest path, etc.
  • Network Algorithms: Kruskal, Prims, Dijkstra, Floyd

Traffic Assignment (Continued…)
  • Route Choice Behavior: User equilibrium, system equilibrium, stochastic equilibrium
  • Diversion Curves: California diversion curves, Detroit diversion curves, Bureau of Public roads diversion curves 
  • Deterministic traffic assignment techniques- All-or-nothing assignment, Multi-Path Traffic Assignment
  • Incremental assignment, capacity restraint assignment
  • Stochastic Traffic assignment techniques
  • Dynamic traffic assignment techniques: Basic Concepts and Approach

Land Use and Transportation
  • Introduction
  • Urban land use planning- land use and land cover, land use classification
  • Land use transportation interaction
  • Accessibility and mobility
  • Land use models 

Urban Goods Movement Introduction
  • Classification of urban goods movement
  • Factors affecting goods movement
  • Modelling Approaches Data collection
  • Strategy for goods transport facility planning
  • Facilities required in goods terminals
  • Time series techniques for forecasting truck traffic

Urban Goods Movement (Continued…)
  • Introduction
  • Classification of urban goods movement
  • Factors affecting goods movement
  • Modelling Approaches

Emerging Trends in Transportation planning
  • Activity based modelling
  • Spatial data infrastructure (SDI)
  • Big Data analytics

Instructors

IIT Kharagpur Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: Where is the form for application provided?

The application form for the Urban Transportation Systems Planning online course has been given on the website.

2: Is this course a paid program?

No, the program is a free course for students who are facing an economic crisis.

3: Can the course guides be downloaded?

The students can visit the website of the Urban Transportation Systems Planning certification course to get more details.

4: Which are the industries that are being supported?

The industries that are being supported are any industries that have applications of the concept of urban transportation in any form.

5: Is this an independent course?

No, the program is an integrated program under all IIT and NIT that has the course of transportation engineering.

6: Where can the fees be deposited?

The students can deposit Rs. 1000 Urban Transportation Systems Planning fee online.

7: What is the total course duration?

The course will take around 12 weeks of time. 

8: Is the scholarship given for the program?

No, for the Urban Transportation Systems Planning training there will be no scholarship given.

9: Does work experience is required for the program?

No, for the Urban Transportation Systems Planning program, it is not compulsory for candidates to have prior work experience.

10: Where will the lecture be held?

The lectures for the Urban Transportation Systems Planning training will be held in the digital medium.

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