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Week/ Date |
Mondays 8-9am |
Tuesdays (lab) 10am-12N |
Wednesdays 8-9am |
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1: 8/24 |
1-1 Intro to Class and Transportation Planning · Introductions · Class policies · Syllabus · Questions |
Lab 1: Introduction to Travel
Forecasting/Modeling · FHWA CD In Class Demo:
Introduction to Travel Demand Forecasting (ITDF or, the “Amarillo” CD). You may
make your own copy of this CD ROM or burn a disk from the ISO CD Image file
located here · assignment: complete the rest of the ITDF certificate track. For instructions, click
here Note: individual lab – everyone turn in a certificate. |
1-2 Introduction to Travel Forecasting/Modeling
(cont). · QUIZ 1
due · QUIZ 2
due |
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2: 8/31 |
2-1 Networks · NHI
Session 3: Networks (lecture) · NHI
Session 3: Networks (notes) · NHI
Session 3: Networks (workshop) -
Due as homework#1, on
Tuesday, Sept. 8 -
Print out pages 3-42
only and fill out by hand · QUIZ 3
due · QUIZ 4
due |
Lab 2:
FHWA/NHI Travel Demand Forecasting Workshop Note: do
not meet in 134. Must work on an XP
computer that you can load software on. · Work in teams: see teams
list · Program Download instructions (click
here) · Lab Instructions: Click
Here (note: it is helpful to view these instructions on a neighboring
computer or laptop, or print them out) – see the lab report requirement
below, before beginning. · Important: before beginning, see errata Click
Here · See
Lab
report requirement · TransCAD
manuals not needed for this lab · QUIZ 5 due · QUIZ 6 due |
2-2
Networks (continued) · NHI
Session 3: Networks (lecture, continued) · brainstorming exercise
on livability measures · QUIZ 7
due ·
QUIZ 8 due (note, no quiz – just let me know that you have read
it) |
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3: 9/07 |
Labor Day
Holiday |
Lab
3: Introducing TransCAD and Quick
Start Tutorial · Work in teams: see teams
list (note: each week one team of
3 will have a missing member due to a drop) · Read Manual A (GIS
user’s guide) Chapter 1; · Read and complete the
exercises in Manual A, Chapter 2. · Read Manual B (Travel
Demand Modeling with TransCAD 5.0 user’s guide) Chapter 1; |
3-2 Matrix
Estimation Based TransCAD model for Massa, Italy - Guest Lecture, Professor
Antonio Pratelli, University of Pisa · QUIZ 9 due · QUIZ 10 due |
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4: 9/14 |
4-1 Trip Generation · NHI
Session 5: Trip Generation (lecture) · NHI
Session 5: Trip Generation (notes) · NHI
Session 5: Trip Generation (workshop) - Answer
Sheet (print out answer pages only and fill out by hand) - Also complete this problem: click
here - Due as homework #2, on Wednesday, Sept 23 (note … new
date) · QUIZ 11 due · QUIZ 12 due |
Lab
4: GIS Tutorials (Manual A) · Work in teams: see teams
list (note: modified from original list) ·
Read the
sections and complete the “60 second tutorials” in Manual A (Manual B not
needed for this lab). For
instructions, click here. |
4-2 Trip
Generation, Continued · Read Manual A: Chapter 19 (before lab 5 begins) · QUIZ 13
due · QUIZ 14
due |
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5: 9/21 |
5-1 Trip Generation Lab (begin early) – sit in
teams for Lab 5 · QUIZ 15
due · QUIZ 16
due |
Lab 5: Trip Generation · Work in teams: see teams
list · Both TransCAD manuals needed for this lab · Refer to Manual A, Chapter 19 (especially focus on
summary statistics, correlation matrices and model estimation and
evaluation). · Data
set #1 (right click, save as) · Data
set #2 (right click, save as) · After lab and before the exam, read: Consultant Trip Generation Report. |
5-2 Trip Distribution · NHI
Session 6: Trip Distribution
(lecture) · NHI
Session 6: Trip Distribution (notes) · NHI
Session 6: Trip Distribution (workshop) - Due as homework #3, October 5 - Answer
sheet (print out answer pages only and fill in by hand only) · QUIZ 17
due · QUIZ 18
due |
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6: 9/28 |
6-1 Trip Distribution, continued · NHI
Session 6: Trip Distribution
(lecture continued) · Supplemental
Lecture Notes (explains attraction adjustment) Review for Exam 1 |
Lab
6: Trip Distribution · Work in teams: see teams
list ·
Files |
Exam
#1 covering
Weeks 1-5 |
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7: 10/05 |
6-2 External Analysis · NHI
Session 8a: “External Trips” portion Also go over exam 2, trip distribution
homework (gravity model iterations) and calibrating gravity model (friction
factors, using TLFD) |
Lab
7: External Analysis · Work in teams: see teams
list · Read NCHRP Chapter 5 – Click
here for text |
7-2 Traffic Assignment - first, go over
PA to OD conversion ·
NHI
Session 10: Assignment (notes) |
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8: 10/12 |
8-1 Traffic Assignment
(cont.) Homework
#4, due next Monday, 10/19: see last page of lecture – choose a partner |
Lab
8: Traffic Assignment · Work in teams: see teams
list |
8-2 Transit/Mode Split · NHI
Session 7: Mode Split (notes) · NHI
Session 7: Mode Split (workshop) -
Due as homework #5,
Monday, Oct. 26 (turn in last 2 pages only) |
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9: 10/19 |
9-1 Guest instructor, Prof. Edward Kannel Traffic
shift assignment method for Corridors -
Due as homework #6,
Wednesday, Oct. 28 (see page 20 of power point) Time-of-Day
and Directional Factoring / Peak Hour Models (if time) ·
NHI
Session 9: Time of Day (notes) |
Lab 9:
Running a TransCAD Model: Ames Guest Instructor, Adam Shell, Iowa DOT · Work in teams: see teams
list · Files |
9-2 Rail Planning – Guest lecture by Tammy
Nicholson, Iowa DOT |
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10: 10/26 |
10-1 Calibration, Adjustment and Validation, Part 1 References:
· Calibration
and Adjustment of System Planning Models · BA’s
Model Validation and Reasonableness Checking Manual · Minimum Travel Demand Model
Calibration and Validation Guidelines for the State of TN · Virginia
Travel Demand Modeling Policies and Procedures Manual |
Lab 10: Creating and Running a
TransCAD Model: Maquoketa · Work in teams: see teams list · Moquoketa.doc
(model documentation) ·
Files |
10-2 Calibration, Adjustment and Validation,
Part 2 |
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11: 11/2 |
11-1
review for Exam 2 |
Lab
11: Visioning exercise, Room 316 Town |
11-2 Exam #2 covering
Weeks 6-10 |
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12: 11/9 |
12-1 Calibration, Adjustment and Validation,
Part 3 |
Lab
12: Des Moines Model · Work in teams: see teams list ·
Files |
Model Post
Processing |
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13:11/16 |
13-1 Freight Planning Mr. Adam Shell and Mr. Craig O’Riley, Iowa DOT Office of Systems Planning ·
video · Freight
planning (new lecture) · Freight
planning (archived lecture, 2007) · Freight
planning (notes) |
Lab
13: · Work in teams: see teams list Completed spreadsheets due Friday Dec
4. |
13-2 Safety in Planning · Transportation
Planner’s Safety Desk Reference ·
PLANSAF |
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11/23 |
FALL BREAK |
THANKSGIVING |
THANKSGIVING |
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14: 11/30 |
13-2 Statewide Planning and Modeling Phil Mescher, Iowa DOT (to be invited) |
Lab
14: Calibration and Adjustment,
Validation and Reasonableness Checks · Work in teams: see teams list due at beginning of Final exam · Instructions
(2 week lab) References:
· What’s
“new” in the BA report · FHWA Model
Certification Checklist ·
See also
lectures 10-1 (and its references), 10-2 and 12-1 CTPP for Story County Note: Story
County FIPS code is 169. For table descriptions, see: click
here For variable
levels, see: click
here |
12-2 The value of Data - Mr. Ed Christopher, FHWA Olympia Fields,
CTPP |
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15: 12/07 |
15-1 Transportation and Society, Looking
Back/Looking Forward |
Lab
15: continue with lab 14 – due at beginning of
Final exam
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15-2
Instructions for Final Exam · Roadmap to Gridlock: The
Failure of Long-Range Metropolitan Transportation Planning · Inside the Blackbox, Making Transportation Models Work for Livable
Communities · A Critical
Review of the Trip-Based, Four-Step Procedure of Urban Passenger Demand
Forecasting |
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Final Exam: 12/15 (Tues) 7:30 AM |
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Possible lectures: |
Planner
Expectations: Iowa DOT District Planners/Planning Job Opportunities Guest Lecture – Phil Mescher, Principal
Transportation Planner, Iowa DOT – for power point, click
here Checklist of topics of interest to
district planners: click
here 14-1 MPO
Plans and Documents Tom Kane, Director, Des Moines Area MPO
(to be invited) ·
Lecture
Slides (may be revised) TBA
(tentative: Ed Christopher, FHWA Olympia Fields, CTPP, NHTS and the future of
data) |
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