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Lesson 3.transportation As A System

Transportation engineering involves planning, designing, operating, and managing various transportation modes to safely and efficiently move people and goods. It aims to provide rapid, comfortable, and environmentally friendly transportation. Key aspects of transportation systems include links between locations, vehicles, terminals, and management of these components. Advanced technologies now help optimize traffic flow and provide travelers with real-time transportation information.

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Lesson 3.transportation As A System

Transportation engineering involves planning, designing, operating, and managing various transportation modes to safely and efficiently move people and goods. It aims to provide rapid, comfortable, and environmentally friendly transportation. Key aspects of transportation systems include links between locations, vehicles, terminals, and management of these components. Advanced technologies now help optimize traffic flow and provide travelers with real-time transportation information.

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Transportation as a

System

Compiled by:
Engr. Carmela R. Mirandilla, CE
What is TRANSPORTATION
ENGINEERING?
⚫ Transportation Engineering is the
application of technology and scientific
principles to the planning, functional
design, operation and management of
facilities for any mode of transportation
in order to provide for the safe, rapid,
comfortable, convenient, economical
and environmentally compatible
movement of people and goods.
Highway Engineering is an art and
science of planning, designing and
constructing of roads and the
maintenance and rehabilitation of
finished roads.
Why is transportation important
in world development?
⚫ It links residences to employment
⚫ It links producers of goods with their
users
⚫ It gives access to health, education and
other amenities.
→the desires of people to move and their
need for goods create the demand for
transportation.
The physical plant of most
transportation systems consists of
four basic elements:
1. Links: the roadways or tracks connecting
two or more points.
2. Vehicles: the means of moving people and
goods from one node to another along a link.
3. Terminals: the nodes where travel and
shipment begins or ends.
4. Management and labor: the people who
construct, operate, manage and maintain the
links, vehicles and terminals.
Nine Categories of Human Behaviour
that are affected by Tansportation
1. Locomotion (passengers, pedestrians)
2. Activities (vehicle control, maintenance,
community life)
3. Feelings (comfort, convenience, enjoyment,
stress, likes, dislikes)
4. Manipulation (modal choice, route selection,
vehicle purchase)
5. Health and safety (accidents, disabilities, fatigue)
6. Social interaction (privacy, territoriality, conflict,
imitation)
7. Motivation (positive or aversive consequences)
8. Learning (operator training, driver education)
9. Perception (images, mapping)
Transportation systems can be
evaluated in terms of three basic
attributes:

1. Ubiquity: the amount of accessibility of the


system, directness of routing between access
points, and the system’s flexibilty to handle a
variety of traffic conditions.
2. Mobility: the quantity of travel that can be
handled.
3. Efficiency: the relationship between the cost
of transportation and the productivity of the
system.
Advanced Traffic Management
System (ITS – Intelligent
Transportation Systems)

Nine components of ITS:


1. Smart Traffic signal control systems
sense heavy traffic flows at road
intersections and adjust the timing of
signals automatically to accommodate
the flows.
2. Freeway management systems meter
vehicles entering freeways with signals
on on-ramps.
3. Transit management systems help
managers to control and monitor the
movements of transit vehicles and
adjust schedules accordingly.
4. Incident Management systems (IMS)
detect and manage nonrecurrent traffic
congestion caused by random
unpredictable incidents, such as traffic
accidents, lane blockages, and
hazardous material spills resulting in
major traffic congestion for
considerable time periods.
5. Electronic toll collection on bridges and
roads
6. Electronic fare payment systems
7. Emergency response allows
emergency vehicles to control traffic
lights at intersections. The emergency
vehicle driver can hold the green phase
until the intersection is cleared.
8. Travel information systems provide
traffic information to users so that they
can adjust their travel plans based on
what they learn.
9. Route guidance system are based on
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Technology. It assists the motorists with
distance and direction information to
selected destinations.
SUMMARY
⚫ Transportation engineering is a very diverse
field. It embraces planning, functional design,
operation, and the management of facilities for
different modes of transportation.

⚫ Good transportation provides for the safe,


rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical,
and environmentally compatible movement of
people and goods.
⚫ Transporation engineering is practiced by
policymakers, managers, planners and
engineers, operating and maintenance
specialists, and evaluators.

⚫ At least three basic attributes of transportation


systems can be used for purposes of
evaluation: ubiquity or accesibility, mobility
and efficiency.

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