Course Info
8 video lessons (55 Mins)
Published
2019Trending
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Browse Course Chapters
- 1. Introduction (4 mins)
- 2. Travel Demand: Overcoming Spatial Distance (4 mins)
- 3. Basic Facts About Urban Travel Behavior (2 mins)
- 4. Introduction to Four-Step Transportation Models (19 mins)
- 5. Critique of Four-Step Models (8 mins)
- 6. Innovations in Modeling: Disaggregated Activity Models (5 mins)
- 7. Contemporary Transportation Challenges (6 mins)
- 8. Wrap-Up (4 mins)
What You Will Learn
- Understand the basis for travel demand and the utility-maximizing assumptions in models.
- Learn about basic facts in urban travel behavior – trip purposes, travel modes, trip distance, trip origins and destinations.
- Introduce trip generation, trip distribution, mode split, and trip assignment used in zone-based transportation models.
- Critique the four-step modelling process for the types of questions addressed in contemporary transportation planning.
- Understand innovations in modeling, such as disaggregated activity and trip tour-based models.
- Be able to conceptualize how transportation models can address contemporary problems in transportation planning such as transit-oriented development.
Course Description
Transportation planning has traditionally relied on economic theories in which travelers maximize their utility by choosing among travel opportunities according to travel time, cost, and convenience. A class of models, called four-step models, was developed based on these theories and found wide practice in transportation agencies. The course explains and critiques the four-step model as a way of introducing this way of thinking and then addresses other approaches, such as cognitive theories, ecological models of behavior, or prospect theory, as alternative models.
Learn these skills
- Economics
- Environmental Planning
- Land Use
- Law and Policy
- Modeling & Simulation
- Parking
- Pedestrian Planning
- Transportation
- Urban Design
- Walkability
AICP CM
This course is approved for 1 AICP CM credit.
CNU-A
This course is approved for 1 CNU-A credit.
SACPLAN CPD
This course is approved for 1 SACPLAN CPD point.