In the first part of the course, it deals with introduction of urban transportation planning system such as data collection, trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice and trip assignment. In the second part, it familiarizes the students with important issues of public transport system such as system, technology and quality of service. Various kinds of public transportation system like bus, bus rapid transit, light rapid transit, railway rapid transit will be discussed.

CILO-1: To recognize the importance of transportation planning and it applications in urban planning. [POs: a,e] CILO-2: To develop the Skill for collecting data about travel behaviour and analyzing the data for use in transport planning. [POs: b] CILO-3: To recognize the four step sequential planning method and compute the problems about trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice and trip assigments. [POs: a,e] CILO-4: To recognize different areas and their characteristics of public transport systems. [POs: a,e] CILO-5: To recognize and carry out the analysis about service quality of public transport stysems. [POs: a,e] CILO-6: To recognize the carry out the analysis about capacity concept of public transport system. [POs: a,e] CILO-7: To work in team and communicate with others effectively for transport related topics. [POs: d,g]