TRAN625

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The course provides the basic introduction to the field of public transportation operations, technology, and analysis. Approaches provided in this course will be applicable to different types of public transportation system problems. The approaches will corporate concepts from economics, engineering, operations research, and theoretical analysis. Enough numerical examples will be provided to build understanding of the concepts and to indicate how they can be applied in practice to various modes and problems.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

1. Vukan R. Vuchic, Urban Transit Systems and Technology, John Wiley, Sons, Inc., 2007

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE:

1. Public Transportation System Overview
2. Public Transportation Research Topics
3. Vehicle Characteristics and Motion
4. Highway Transit Modes
5. Rail Transit Modes
6. Transportation System Performance
7. Capacity, Productivity, Efficiency, and Utilization
8. Simulation of Bus Operations
9. Midterm Exam
10. Vehicle Stopping Regimes and Spacings
11. Time Dependent Shortest Path Topic:
12. Minimum Path in a Transit System with Fixed Schedule
13. Vehicle Scheduling and Routing
14. New Concepts and Proposed Modes
15. Project Presentation
16. Final Exam