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Transportation (20/10/2009). Dr. Ahmad BinTouq E-mail: abintouq@uaeu.ac.ae URL: http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouq GEO 440: GIS for Urban & Regional Planning. Overview. Comprehensive survey of various areas of Transportation-planning and traffic engineering applications
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Transportation (20/10/2009) Dr. Ahmad BinTouq E-mail: abintouq@uaeu.ac.ae URL: http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouq GEO 440: GIS for Urban & Regional Planning
Overview • Comprehensive survey of various areas of Transportation-planning and traffic engineering applications • Main task: management of roads and motorways • Examples such as: • Metros • Traffic flow on major highways • Transit line for public buses
GIS for Transportation • Data sources (floating cars) • Zones and population centers used for traffic modeling
Exercise • How to integrate GIS for transportation-planning using live data and base maps?