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Urban Transportation Planning

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    This course examines the planning, engineering, and policies of transportation systems in urban areas, with a special focus on Greater Cairo Region. It covers the principles of transportation systems planning and analysis, different methods of transportation demand modeling (sequential method, direct demand models, simultaneous models), calibration of trip generation models, gravity model calibration, direct demand models, discrete choice models, the use of some mathematical forms to formulate some problems in transportation planning, the use of some computer programs in transportation planning.
  • Arabic Description

    This course examines the planning, engineering, and policies of transportation systems in urban areas, with a special focus on Greater Cairo Region. It covers the principles of transportation systems planning and analysis, different methods of transportation demand modeling (sequential method, direct demand models, simultaneous models), calibration of trip generation models, gravity model calibration, direct demand models, discrete choice models, the use of some mathematical forms to formulate some problems in transportation planning, the use of some computer programs in transportation planning.
  • Department
    Public Works
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Major Assessment (30 = tr.Industry 5% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 12% , tr.Seminar 18% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4
  • - Modelling Transport, Juan de Dios Ortúzar, Luis G. Willumsen, Wiley, 4th Edition, 2011.