Transportation Engineering-I
Engineering I
HIGHWAY PLANNING
HIGHWAY?
A major roadway capable of accommodating
heavy traffic
Modern highway systems started developing in
the last century
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MOTORWAY
A highway with controlled or restricted access
For free-flowing high speed traffic
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Evaluation
Action Plan
Goals and
Objectives
Devise
Strategies
HIGHWAY PLANNING
Activities that:
1 Collect information on required performance
1.
2. Identify existing and forecast future system
performance levels
3. Identify solutions
Focus: meet existing and forecasted travel
demands
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HIGHWAY PLANNING
Highway transportation system plays an
important role in the lives of the community
The transportation problem touches almost
every phase of modern life i.e.
Industry
Agriculture
Goods
Movement
HIGHWAY PLANNING
Highway planners must continually be aware of
the heavy responsibilities they bear
Thus in preparing schemes for a single highway
or complicated highway network, care must
always be taken to ensure that;
Project
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HIGHWAY PLANNING
Entire planning process should be regarded as
a definite step in the advancement of
environmental progress and not just as a
concrete attempt to relieve congested traffic
conditions
It is important because of:
The
HIGHWAY PLANNING
Highway
planners
must
give
special
consideration to the role of the vehicles in the
urban areas
Following factors must be considered:
Increase
in population
Growth of number of vehicles
I
iin use off vehicles
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Increase
Density of growth in different areas
Existing state of highway systems
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TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
The process by which new transportation facilities
(and improvements to the old facilities) are
systematically designed, adequately tested, and
their future construction is properly programmed
Comprehensive transportation planning considers
all modes (mass transit, automobile, air, rail, etc.)
off transportation
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t ti and
d treats
t t them
th
allll as a single
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system.
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Solution
Land-use
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transport demands
Large metropolitan areas
Solution
Bus
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ASSIGNMENT
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