PREVIEW
SHARECourse Info
9 video lessons (47 Mins)
Published
2019
Preview Course
Browse Course Chapters
- 1. (1 min)
- 2. Introduction (3 mins)
- 3. Understanding Travel Behavior (8 mins)
- 4. Causality in Transportation (5 mins)
- 5. Key Concepts (6 mins)
- 6. Jurisdiction Context for Transportation (5 mins)
- 7. Goods Movement and Interregional Perspective (3 mins)
- 8. The Future as Evolution or Revolution (12 mins)
- 9. Wrap-Up (2 mins)
What You Will Learn
- Understand what transportation system do, at present and through history.
- Understand the nature of travel demand.
- Comprehend how transportation systems interact with society and the economy.
- Learn concepts in transportation planning.
- Understand goods movement functions from a regional and interregional perspective.
- Identify and explain how technological and culture changes will affect transportation planning processes in the future.
Course Description
Transportation is a key element of economic and social systems. This course defines and explains core concepts of transportation, such as the access and mobility functions of transportation, travel as a derived demand, induced travel and triple convergence, trip origin and destination, trip tours, the roles of travel modes, price elasticity, demand/capacity relationships, and transportation networks.
The course concludes with comments about how technology, such as autonomous vehicles, disrupts transportation systems and affects these understandings.
Learn these skills
- Economics
- Equity
- Land Use
- Law and Policy
- Parking
- Pedestrian Planning
- Transportation
- Urban Design
- Walkability
AICP CM
This course is approved for .75 AICP CM credit.
CNU-A
This course is approved for .75 CNU-A credit.
SACPLAN CPD
This course is approved for 1 SACPLAN CPD point.
