Transportation planning plays a key role as a lifeline for any society. It comprises applications of science and art, where a great deal of judgment coupled with its technical elements is required to arrive at a meaningful decision in order to develop transportation infrastructure facilities for the community. It, thereby, helps in achieving a safer, faster, comfortable, convenient, economical, sustainable and environment-friendly movement of people and goods traffic.
In this context, the book has been written, and now updated in the second edition dealing with the basic principles and fundamentals of transportation planning. It also keeps abreast of the current techniques practices and policies conducted in transportation planning.
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, the book is of immense benefit to the students opting a course on Mater of Planning conducted in various institutes.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BOOK
Systematically organised concepts well-supported with ample illustrations
Prodigious illustrative figures and tables
Chapter-end summary helps in grasping the quirk concepts
State-of-the-art data garnered in the book presents an updated version
Chapter-end review questions help students to prepare for the examination
NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION
Provides Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Neural Network and Neuro Fuzzy Model techniques (Chapter 4)
Incorporates the formation of travel demand model with soft computing techniques including trip generation model (Chapter 5)
Provides a practical approach of calibrating Origin Destination Matrix (Chapter 6)
Incorporates the concept of mode choice models with a number of worked-out examples (Chapter 7)
Provides a case study on mobility plan of Gandhinagar, Gujarat, demonstrating the development of all stages of transport modelling (Chapter 11)
Includes a new appendix on “Applications of Soft Computing in Trip Distribution and Traffic Assignment”.
About the Author
PRADIP KUMAR SARKAR, Ph.D., is Professor and Head, Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Also, he is the Vice-President of the Institute of Urban Transport, India. He is presently engaged in teaching, research and consulting work in the area of Transport Planning. He is an active member of various technical committees of the national importance. Besides this, he has written two books on Transport Economics and Sustainable Transport System and contributed more than 110 papers published at national and international levels. |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 a member of various technical committees. He has also contributed about 50 research and technical papers to the publications in referred journals, national and international conferences/seminars/workshops.|G.J. JOSHI, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, SVNIT, Surat. He has contributed around 60 papers to national and international conferences/seminars/journals. His research interests include urban transportation planning, urban and regional travel demand forecasting, traffic flow modelling, traffic regulation and control, and non-conventional materials for highway pavements.
