a. Introduction, Roles: land use and
socio-economic activities, modes , Traffic
b. Elements: Line Hauls - Networks -
Regional Systems
c. Concepts: Load/Capacity; Demand/Supply;
Market/Service
d. Models: Quantitative Description
of concepts vs time
e. Practice: Use of codes, norms, means, limits, and standards
f. Assumptions: transportation, steady state, variability,
and uncertainty
g. Future DEMAND: trends,
projections, and forecasts
h. Objectives: decision, economy,
environment, and others
2. Traffic Analysis, Quantitative
MODELS and MODELING:
a. Static, Steady State, and Variability of Capacity and Load; interaction.
b. Cross section, time series,
stochastic, simultaneity
c. Discrete Flow, Probability and queuing applications
d. Monte Carlo Simulation applied
to modeling variability
e. Transportation MODEL;
activities, circulation, feedback
f. Accounting: General Principles
3. VEHICLE MOTION and KINEMATICS:
a. Three dimensional motion - general requirements for:
steady state, acceleration and deceleration, time - space relationships.
b. Land based systems: Road and Rail, design speeds, track geometrics.
c. Power and energy requirements
for cruse, acceleration and deceleration.
d. Details and Dynamics of: power-trains
and braking.
e. Vehicle operators, Car drivers,
Human Factors.
4. TRAFFIC FLOW and ROUTE - TRACK
LOCATION, GEOMETRY, LIMITATIONS, and MODELS:
a. Vehicle characteristics and
their effects.
b. Track structural requirements.
c. Vehicle track interface characteristics and
limitations.
d. Track environment limitations.
e. Track/speed/space profiles.
f. Vehicle flow, capacity, density,
speed, headways.
g. Traditional P-, L-Line, Profile,
Cross section, surface shape conventions.
h. Digital terrain model, earthwork,
material and haul quantities.
5. STANDARDS, NORMS, CONVENTIONAL PRACTICE, TECHNOLOGY LIMITS, and HORIZONS.
6. VALUATION and DECISION METHODS:
b. Estimation of Construction Costs.
c. Estimation of Operations and Maintenance Costs
d. Estimation of Cash and Economic Revenues.
e. System Cost and Revenue
Models.
f. Efficiency, Effectiveness and Optimization.
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