Traffic Transportation PL
Traffic Transportation PL
Traffic Transportation PL
Design speed of major road min. visibility distance along a major road
In K.P.H
100 220
80 180
65 145
50 110
3. Industrial premises
5. Restaurants
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1. Traffic regulations deals with control of vehicles, drivers and road users.
2. Control of vehicles deals with registration, weight, size, design,
construction, and maintenance.
3. Driver regulations deal with licensing, operation of vehicles.
4. Road user regulations deal with rules of pedestrians, cyclists, motor
cyclists.
5. Speed limits in urban areas – Indian conditions
Chapter I – preliminary
Chapter II – licensing of drivers of motor vehicles
Chapter III – licensing of conductors of stage carriages
Chapter IV – control of transport vehicles
Chapter V – construction, equipment and maintenance of motor vehicles.
Chapter VI – control of traffic
Chapter VII – motor vehicles temporary leaving or visiting India
Chapter VIII – insurance f motor vehicles against third party riska
Chapter IX – offences, penalties and procedures.
Chapter X – miscellaneous
Principles of traffic engineering and transportation planning
1. Traffic engineering
Deals with the planning and geometric design of streets, highways
and abutting lands, and with traffic operation thereon, as their use is related to
the safe, convenient and economic transportation of persons and goods.
2. functions of traffic engineering
a. collection, analysis, and interpretation of data pertaining to
traffic
i. OD survey
ii. Volume counts
iii. Speed, delay and travel time measurements
iv. Accident statistics
v. Parking characteristics
vi. Pedestrian behavior and use of streets
vii. Capacity studies
viii. Economic loss caused by inferior traffic facilities
b. Traffic and transportation planning
i. To ensure a safe, orderly and fully integrated transport
system.
ii. Related to land use
iii. Selection and implementation of alternative solutions
c. Traffic design
i. Geometric design of high ways and streets
ii. Intersection design
iii. Schemes for grade separated interchanges
iv. Design of off street and on street parking
v. Design of terminals
d. Measures for operation of traffic
i. Legislation and enforcement measures – drivers , road users
ii. Management measures – one way streets, turnings at
junctions, tidal flow,
iii. Measures for parking
iv. Traffic control devices
e. Administration
i. Programs intended to safe and efficient traffic
ii. Education, legislation and enforcement measures
3. transportation planning
To under stand the nature of the problems of traffic and formulate
proposals for the safe and efficient movement of goods and people from one
place to another.
4. stages of transport planning
a. survey and analysis of existing conditions
b. forecast, analysis of future conditions and plan synthesis
c. evaluation
d. program adaptation and implementation
e. continuing study
Journey speed is known as over all travel speed including all delays incurred en-
route.
Journey speed = distance
Total journey time (including delays)
Survey methods
a) Home interview survey
i. Full interview technique
ii. Home questionnaire technique
b) Road side interview survey
c) Post card questionnaire survey
d) Registration number plate survey
e) Tags on vehicles.
Parking surveys
Parking is one of the serious problems that confront the urban planner and
the traffic engineer. Before any measure for the betterment of the conditions can
be formulated, basic data pertaining to the availability of parking space, extent of
its usage and parking demand are essential.
Parking accumulation: the total number of vehicles parked in an area at specified
moment.
Parking volume: the number of vehicles parked in a particular area over a given
period of time.
Parking load: the area under the parking accumulation curve during a specified
period.
Parking duration: the length of time spent in a parking space.
Parking index: percentage of the theoretically available number of parking bays
actually occupied by parked vehicles.
Parking index = no of bays occupied x 100
Theoretical number of bays available
1. transport modes
a. railways
surface
underground
elevated
b. road transport
c. air transport
d. water transport
coastal shipping
international shipping
inland water transport
e. pipe lines
f. rope ways
2. speed
3. safety
4. Adequacy