Introduction to Transportation Systems

SUMMARYNOTE TO INSTRUCTORS: These slides cover major ideas from the course, and should be supplemented with other materials presented by the instructor.

SO WHERE HAVE WE BEEN IN 1.221?

Concepts CLIOS 30 Key Points

Freight Transportation Total Logistics Costs (TLC) LOS for freight modes Operating issues

Traveler Transportation Automobiles Urban Form and Transportation ITS Urban Public Transportation Megacities Intercity Traveler Transportation--Air, Amtrak, e.g.

SOME EMPHASIZED POINTS

The Triplet of Technology/Systems/Institutions Level-of-Service (LOS)--freight and travelers- -the importance of the customer The Cost/LOS trade-off Supply/Demand/Equilibrium The Vehicle-cycle Transportation as a component of a larger social-political-economic system--a force for good and otherwise

“REAL WORLD”

ABSTRACTION

MODELS FRAMEWORKS

ANALYSIS

PRACTICAL

SOLUTION

RESULTS/ DESIGN

PROFESSIONAL “COMMON

JUDGMENT SENSE”

POLITICAL

REALITIES

TRANSITIONS IN THE WORLD OF TRANSPORTATION: A SYSTEMS VIEW

Joseph M. Sussman Transportation Quarterly Vol. 5

6, No. 1, Winter 2002

Eno Transportation Foundation

Washington, DC, 2002

SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONSFrom To

1.

Capital Management

Planning and Operations

Focus2.

Long Real-time

Timeframes Control

3.

Urban Scale Regional Scale Planning Planning and Operations and Operations

4.

Emphasis on Emphasis on Mobility Accessibility

(the Tr ansportation/ Land-Use Connection

5.

Customer “One Size Orientation Fits All” Quality Service Pricing for

Service

SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONS(CONTINUED) F ROM T O

6. ALLOCATE

ALLOCATE

CAPACIT CAPACITY

BY QUEUING BY

PRICING 7. AGGREGATE DISAGGREGATE

METHODS FOR METHODS FOR

D EMAND PREDICTION DEMAND PREDICTION

8. EPISODIC D ATA DYNAMIC DATA

FOR FOR

I NVESTMENT P LANNING NVESTMENT P LANNING (AND O PERATIONS

9. PRIVATE AND PUBLIC / PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

FOR FINANCING

FOR OF I NFRASTRUCTURE

I NFRASTRUCTURE AND O PERATIONS

AND O PERATIONS USING HYBRID RETURN

ON I NVESTMENT

MEASURES10. I NFRASTRUCTURE N EW H IGH – CONSTRUCTION AND T

ECHNOLOGY MAINTENANCE PROVIDER

PLAYERS

P UBLIC FINANCING

SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONS(CONTINUED)

F ROM T O

11. S TATIC

ORGANIZATIONS

AND INSTITUTIONAL

RELATIONSHIPS

DYNAMIC

ORGANIZATIONS

AND INSTITUTIONAL

RELATIONSHIPS

12.PROFESSIONAL

EMPHASIS ON

PROFESSIONAL

EMPHASIS ON

TRANSPORTATION

DESIGN OF PHYSICAL

INFRASTRUCTURE

AS A COMPLEX , LARGE -SCALE ,

INTEGRATED , OPEN

SYSTEM (CLIOS)

13. ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT

14. COMPUTERS ARE “ JUST A TOOL ”

UBIQUITOUS

COMPUTING

15. F ROM T O AND O N T O SUPPLY –SIDE SUPPLY /D EMAND SYSTEMS THAT

PERSPECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM NEVER REACH

FRAMEWORK EQUILIBRIUM

SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONS(CONTINUED)

F ROM T O

16. INDEPENDENT LINKED ADVANCED

CONVENTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE

I NFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

REQUIRING

PROJECTS A SYSTEM

ARCHITECTURE

17. V EHICLES AND V EHICLES AND

INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE

AS AS

INDEPENDENT ELECTRONICAL

LY

LINKED18. R EDUCING

C ONSEQUENCES CRASH

AVOIDANCE

OF CRASHES

19. F ROM T O AND O N T O

MODAL INTERMODAL SUPPLY

C HAIN PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIV

E MANAGEMENT

20. N ARROW THE N EW

TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION

SPECIALISTS PROFESSIONAL