TRANSPORTATION PLANNING : PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES AND POLICIES

Transportation planning plays a useful role as a lifeline for any society. It comprises applications of science and art, where a great deal of judgement coupled with its technical elements is required to arrive at a meaningful decision in order to develop transportation infrastructure facilities for the community. Transportation planning, thereby, helps in achieving a safer, faster, comfortable, convenient, economical and environment-friendly movement of people and goods traffic.
In this context, an attempt has been made to write a comprehensive book on this subject, which not only deals with the basic principles and fundamentals of transportation planning but also keeps abreast of the current practices and policies conducted in transportation planning.

Divided into 23 chapters, the book felicitously proffers the fundamental techniques of transportation planning and travel demand modelling, urban form and urban structure and their relation with transport pattern, land use-transport model, accessibility and mobility consideration in transport modelling, graph theory and road network planning, cost benefit analysis, mass transport planning, applications of intelligent transport system, applications of software in transport planning, and transport policies.

Exploiting a systematic approach avoiding prolixity, this book will prove to be a vade mecum for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of civil engineering and transportation engineering. Besides, this book is of immense benefit to the students opting a course on Master of Planning conducted in various institutes.

•   Systematically organised concepts well-supported with ample illustrations
•   Prodigious illustrative figures and tables
•   Incorporates chapter-end summary to help in grasping the quirk concepts
•   Presents state-of-the-art data
•   Includes chapter-end review questions to help students prepare for examination

Preface.
1. Introduction to Transportation Planning. 2. Study Area. 3. Transportation Planning Surveys. 4. Travel Demand Forecasting Techniques. 5. Trip Generation Model. 6. Trip Distribution Models. 7. Modal Split. 8. Mode Choice Modelling through Stated Preference (SP) and Revealed Preference (RP) Data. 9. Traffic Assignment. 10. Freight Movement Study. 11. Long-term Transport Planning. 12. Regional Transportation Planning. 13. Accessibility and Mobility Considerations in Transport Planning. 14. The Lowry Land Use-transport Model. 15. Transport Supply. 16. Graph Theory: Approach to Road Network Planning. 17. Intermodal Integration. 18. Urban Form, Urban Structure and Relationship with Transport Pattern. 19. Cost Benefit Analysis. 20. Transit Planning, Design and Scheduling. 21. Applications of Intelligent Transport System. 22. Applications of Software in Transport Planning. 23. Transport Policies.

Annexures. Index.

Pradip Kumar Sarkar, Ph.D. in Planning, is Professor and Head, Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He is presently engaged in teaching, research and various consultancy projects work in the areas of transport planning, urban planning, environment planning and highway design study, feasibility studies and road safety auditing. He is an active member of Highway Standards and Specifications Committee, IMRA Committee, Urban Roads and Policy Committee, HRB Committee, Pilot Study Committee of the Indian Road Congress. Earlier, he worked as a Scientist in the Central Road Research Institute, India for about 14 years, including a short stint with Rail India Technical Economic Services (RITES). Also, he is a member of Technical Expert Committee of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation and is the reviewer of Indian Road Congress. He has been Honorary Secretary of Institute of Urban Transport.
The author of two books, Dr. Sarkar, has contributed more than 90 research and technical papers to the national and international conferences/seminars/workshops and revered journals in India and abroad. He has received a number of awards including Indira Gandhi Achiever Award, Rashtriya Gaurav Award and Best Citizen Award for his outstanding contribution in the profession. Television and print media interacts with him very frequently to take his views and advices for the current issues on transportation system of the country, in general, and Delhi, in particular.
Vinay Maitri, Ph.D., is Professor of Programming and Head of the Centre for Analysis and System Studies, GIS and Remote Sensing, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He is member of Intelligent Transport Systems, TED 28 and 11.2, BIS, GoI, technical committee for ITS related implementations work in Delhi Traffic Police, Technical Advisory Committee for Implementing ITS for Hyderabad Metropolitan Area and on Outer Ring Road (ORR) of Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited and Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority. His fields of interest are system analysis and design, system testing, EDP auditing, ISO 9000, TQM, project monitoring and control, resource estimation, requirement analysis, market research, quantitative techniques and transport economics. Dr. Maitri has also contributed about 50 research and technical papers to the publications in revered journals, national and international conferences/seminars/workshops.
G.J. Joshi, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, is Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, SVNIT, Surat. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research and consultancy assignments and has guided a number of dissertations and projects at postgraduate level. His research interests include travel demand modelling, traffic (vehicular and pedestrian) flow modelling and public transport planning. He is leading the team at SVNIT for collaborative research projects with Indian Roads Congress and CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi and is resource person for World Bank aided Capacity Building Programme for Sustainable Urban Transport Project of MoUD, GoI. He is coordinator of the State Technical Agency, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana for the Gujarat state. He has been involved in the revision of codes of practice of IRC as member secretary of IRC Technical Committee and is also associated with the activities of Transportation Research Group of India.

He is recipient of Gold Medal (Gujarat University) and the ISTE award for guiding best M.Tech thesis in Civil Engineering (2008) and has published more than 60 research papers in national and international conferences and journals.