PLAN203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Environmental Impact Assessment, Transportation Planning, Unimodality
6 Jun 2016
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Week 2: transportation and land use connection; transportation and urban form transportation and urban liveability. What is transportation planning: typically focus on the plan yet transportation planning today is a continuous process, effective transportation planning is an integral and ongoing part of the decision making process in our communities. Integration between transportation plan and land use plan, usually at odds with each other. Environmental impact assessment driving the need of a transportation plan. Considers : efficient movement of people, goods, where efficiency = least cost, time, resources (energy, measures of effectiveness system performance, sustainability indicators, considers the different modes (not unimodal) Intermodal; a unit people transferred from truck to boat to plane etc: multimodal; more than one way of transportation. Important because people take many different forms of transportation. People can choose; they have options: thinks forward to performance in the future. Quantity, quality of transportation infrastructure and services: changing needs/demand; e. g. self driving cars.
