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Introduction to Transportation

Introduction to Transportation Systems. SUMMARY NOTE TO INSTRUCTORS: These slides cover major ideas from the course, and should be supplemented with other materials presented by the instructor.

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Introduction to Transportation

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  1. Introduction to • Transportation • Systems

  2. SUMMARY NOTE TO INSTRUCTORS: These slides cover major ideas from the course, and should be supplemented with other materials presented by the instructor.

  3. SO WHERE HAVE WE BEEN IN 1.221? • Concepts • CLIOS • 30 Key Points Freight Transportation Total Logistics Costs (TLC) LOS for freight modes Operating issues •  Traveler Transportation •  Automobiles • Urban Form and Transportation •  ITS • Urban Public Transportation •  Megacities • Intercity Traveler Transportation--Air, Amtrak, e.g.

  4. SOME EMPHASIZED POINTS The Triplet of Technology/Systems/Institutions  Level-of-Service (LOS)--freight and travelers- -the importance of the customer  The Cost/LOS trade-off  Supply/Demand/Equilibrium  The Vehicle-cycle  Transportation as a component of a larger social-political-economic system--a force for good and otherwise

  5. “REAL WORLD” ABSTRACTION MODELS FRAMEWORKS ANALYSIS • RESULTS/ DESIGN PROFESSIONAL “COMMON JUDGMENT SENSE” PRACTICAL SOLUTION POLITICAL REALITIES

  6. TRANSITIONS IN THE WORLD OF TRANSPORTATION: A SYSTEMS VIEW • Joseph M. Sussman Transportation Quarterly Vol. 56, No. 1, Winter 2002 • Eno Transportation Foundation • Washington, DC, 2002

  7. SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONS From To 1. • Capital Management • Planning and Operations • Focus 2. • Long Real-time • Timeframes Control 3. • Urban Scale Regional Scale • Planning Planning and Operations and Operations 4. • Emphasis on Emphasis on • Mobility Accessibility • (the Tr ansportation/ • Land-Use • Connection 5. • Customer • “One Size Orientation • Fits All” Quality • Service Pricing for • Service

  8. SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONS (CONTINUED) F ROM T O • 6. ALLOCATE ALLOCATE • CAPACIT CAPACITY • BY QUEUING BY PRICING • 7. AGGREGATE DISAGGREGATE • METHODS FOR METHODS FOR • D EMAND PREDICTION DEMAND PREDICTION • EPISODIC D ATA DYNAMIC DATA • FOR FOR • I NVESTMENT P LANNING NVESTMENT P LANNING • (AND O PERATIONS 9. • PRIVATE AND PUBLIC / • PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS • FOR FINANCING P UBLIC FINANCING • FOR OF I NFRASTRUCTURE • I NFRASTRUCTURE AND O PERATIONS • AND O PERATIONS USING HYBRID RETURN • ON I NVESTMENT • MEASURES • I NFRASTRUCTURE N EW H IGH – • CONSTRUCTION AND T ECHNOLOGY MAINTENANCE PROVIDER PLAYERS

  9. SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONS (CONTINUED) F ROM T O • 11. S TATIC • ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL • RELATIONSHIPS • DYNAMIC • ORGANIZATIONS • AND INSTITUTIONAL • RELATIONSHIPS • PROFESSIONAL • EMPHASIS ON • TRANSPORTATION 12. PROFESSIONAL EMPHASIS ON DESIGN OF PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE • AS A COMPLEX , LARGE -SCALE , • INTEGRATED , OPEN • SYSTEM (CLIOS) • 13. ECONOMIC • DEVELOPMENT • SUSTAINABLE • DEVELOPMENT 14. COMPUTERS ARE “ JUST A TOOL ” UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING • 15. F ROM T OAND O N T O • SUPPLY –SIDE SUPPLY /D EMAND SYSTEMS THAT • PERSPECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM NEVER REACH • FRAMEWORK EQUILIBRIUM

  10. SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONS (CONTINUED) F ROM T O • 16. INDEPENDENT LINKED ADVANCED • CONVENTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE • I NFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS REQUIRING • PROJECTS A SYSTEM • ARCHITECTURE • 17. V EHICLES AND V EHICLES AND • INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE AS AS • INDEPENDENT ELECTRONICALLY • LINKED • 18. R EDUCING • C ONSEQUENCES CRASH AVOIDANCE • OF CRASHES • 19. F ROM T OAND O N T O • MODAL INTERMODAL SUPPLY C HAIN PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE MANAGEMENT • 20. N ARROW THE N EW • TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION • SPECIALISTS PROFESSIONAL

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