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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
INŞ 4090	TRANSPORTATION PLANNING	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	3

Offered By

Civil Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR SERHAN TANYEL

Offered to

Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering

Course Objective

It is aimed to give information on the estimation of future demands for movement; the design of a series of alternative transportation plans according with community aims and objectives and evaluation of alternative transportation plans, in both economic and social aspects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	To be able to associate the transportation demand and land use characteristics
2	To be able to compare the different transportation modes
3	To be able to estimate the effects of passenger behaviours on mode choice
4	To be able to evaluate the trip distributions on transportation system
5	To be able to analyze the consequences of the regulations related to the travel demand and transport policies
6	To be able report and present the findings about the transportation system

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

INŞ 3025 - TRANSPORTION ENGINEERING I

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Introduction to transportation planning, organization and administration, transportation planning process
2	Collection of basic data, traffic zones, travel pattern data, household surveys
3	Collection of basic data (cont.), inventory of existing transportation facilities, planning and economic data
4	Trip generation, influencing factors: physical, social and economic
5	Trip generation (cont.), prediction methods, category analysis
6	Trip distribution, uniform factor method, average factor method, growth factor method
7	Trip distribution by growth factor (cont.), Fratar method, Detroit method
8	Trip distribution by synthetic methods, gravity model and numeric examples
9	Trip distribution by synthetic methods (cont.), multiple linear regression method and numeric examples
10	MID-TERM EXAM
11	Modal split, factors influencing modal split, characteristics of trip, passenger and transportation system
12	Modal split (cont.), probit model, logit model, binary logit model, multinomial logit model
13	Traffic assignment, Wardrop's theory, all or nothing method, capacity constrained method, user equilibrium method
14	Traffic assignment (cont.), user equilibrium method, stochastic methods

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):

Modelling Transport, Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Luis G. Willumsen, Wiley & Sons, ISBN:0471861103, Ingiltere, 2002.

Materials:

Presentations, course notes.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Applications, presentation, homework.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
3	FIN	FINAL EXAM
4	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5	RST	RESIT
6	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-5: it is evaluated by mid-term and final exams.
LO 1, LO 2, LO 4 and LO 6: it is evaluated by homework and presentation.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Serhan TANYEL: serhan.tanyel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced after the course schedule is determined.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	13	3	39
Preparing assignments	1	5	5
Preparation for final exam	1	7	7
Preparing presentations	1	5	5
Preparation for midterm exam	1	5	5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	13	1	13
Final	1	2	2
Midterm	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			78

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.3	PO.4	PO.6	PO.7	PO.10	PO.11	PO.13
LO.1	4	3	3
LO.2			4
LO.3			4
LO.4		5	3
LO.5	5			5		5	5
LO.6					5

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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