RS4019 Geomatics for Transportation Planning and Management Syllabus:
RS4019 Geomatics for Transportation Planning and Management Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
To understand various highway geometric elements and surveys carried out for highway alignment
To understand the factors involved urban transportation planning
To expose the potential applications of remote sensing in transportation
To expose the potential applications of GIS in transportation
To impart knowledge on latest developments in transportation planning
UNIT I ENGINEERING SURVEYS AND GEOMETRIC DESIGN
Road ways and railways – development – necessity for planning – classification of roads and railways –Alignment surveys and investigations using conventional and remote sensing techniques (preliminary, reconnaissance and final location surveys) – Design principles of highway geometric elements
UNIT II URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND PLANNING
Urban transportation: policy alternatives – Transportation and the environment -Urban transport planning processes – Socio-demographic data and travel surveys – Transportation modeling – Traffic congestion – Plan evaluation and implementation – Planning and financing –Critiques of transportation modeling and forecasting- multi modal transport system
UNIT III REMOTE SENSING IN TRANSPORTATION
Study of geographic pattern of urban development using remote sensing data products – urban sprawl – parking studies using aerial photos – traffic analysis – accident analysis – site suitability analysis for transport infrastructure – population distribution studies – improvisation of rural road network – iRAD- regional road network connectivity – vehicle tracking – incident identification and management.
UNIT IV GIS AND TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS
Transportation analysis in GIS: Introduction – network flows – shortest path algorithms – transportation databases: creation and maintenance – facility location – vehicle routing – highway and railway alignment –highway maintenance
UNIT V TRANSPORT INTERACTION MODELS AND ITS
Land use transport interaction models – Transport environment interaction models – intelligent transportation systems (ITS)- development – architecture – Mobile Mapping–integration with GIS – applications –- case studies.
OUTCOMES:
On completion of the course, the student is expected to be able to
CO1 Understand various highway geometric elements and surveys carried out for highway alignment
CO2 Understand the factors involved urban transportation planning
CO3 Apply remote sensing technique for transportation problems
CO4 Apply GIS for transportation analysis
CO5 Gain knowledge on latest developments in transportation planning
REFERENCES:
1. Harvey J. Miller, Shih-Lung Shah, Geographic Information Systems for Transportation – Principles and Applications, Oxford University Press, 2001, 1st edition .
2. John Stillwell, Graham Clarke, Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2003, 1st edition.
3. C.S. Papacostas, P.D. Prevedouros, Transportation Engineering and Planning, Prentice-Hall India, 2012, 3rd 3dition .
4. L.R.Kadiyali, Transportation Engineering, Khanna Book publishing Co (P) Ltd, New Delhi, 2016
5. C.Jotin Khisty and B.Kent Lall, Transportation Engineering-An Introduction, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, 2002
6. Igor Ivan, Itzhak Benenson, Bin Jiang, Jiri Horak and James Haworth, Geoinformatics for Intelligent transportation System, Springer International Publishing AG, 2014
7. Barry Boots, Atsuyuki Okabe and Richard Thomas, Modelling Geographical Systems – Statistical and computational applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2014.