transportation planning vs. transportation engineering
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Transportation Planning vs. Transportation Engineering A transportation engineers’ perspective to Transportation Planning
or VS.
A collaboration between: Rafael Villarreal P.Eng., MCIP, RPP
Ahmed Idris, PhD, P.Eng.
Stephen Sargeant, P.Eng., PTOE
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What is Transportation Planning?
It’s a matter of perspective
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What is Transportation Planning?
Stereo-typical Engineer
Numbers, designs, standards, operations. “I do it all, I know it all, just stay out of my way !!”
Consultation Complete streets Urban design Development approvals
Stereo-typical Planner
Source: Parks & Recreation
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What is Transportation Engineering?
Technical
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What is Transportation Engineering?
Stereo-typical Engineer
Numbers, designs, standards, operations. “I do it all, I know it all, just stay out of my way !!”
Consultation Complete streets Urban design Development approvals
Stereo-typical Planner
Source: Parks & Recreation
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Even within Transportation professionals, there are different perspectives
Three different perspectives
The confused, planner or engineer? The academic, in theory… The hired gun, also known as the engineering consultant
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Perspective 1 - the confused
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Transportation demand is derived
By activities
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“The best Transportation plan is…
a land use plan”
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Definition (Wikipedia)
“As practiced today, it is a collaborative process that incorporates the input of many stakeholders including various government agencies, the public and private businesses. Transportation planners apply a multi-modal and/or comprehensive approach to analyzing the wide range of alternatives and impacts on the transportation system to influence beneficial outcomes”
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Traditionally Transportation Planning is..
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In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning)
Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Lan use? really?
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant Icons the noun project (thenounproject.com): Small Town Collection - Olesya Kozlova, Smoothline Building Collection - Pham Thi Dieu Linh, Briefcase - Pham Thi Dieu Linh, Family Relationship Collection - Gerald Wildmoser
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In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning)
Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Lan use? really?
Link Volumes
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning)
Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Lan use? really?
Link Volumes
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning)
Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Lan use? really?
Link Volumes
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Transportation and Traffic Operations
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Lan use? really?
Link Volumes
In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning and Engineering)
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Transportation and Traffic Operations
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Detailed designs
Construction and Operations
Lan use? really?
In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning and Engineering)
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Transportation and Traffic Operations
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Detailed designs
Construction and Operations
Lan use? really?
In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning and Engineering)
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning and Engineering)
Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Transportation and Traffic Operations
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Detailed designs
Construction and Operations
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Oh, Yes, right, the community…
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning and Engineering)
Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Transportation and Traffic Operations
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Detailed designs
Construction and Operations
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning)
Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Transportation and Traffic Operations
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Detailed designs
Construction and Operations
Public Engagement
Public Engagement
Engagement and consultation
Engagement and consultation
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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In a nutshell (Traditional approach to Transportation Planning)
Region/Metropolitan Strategic Transportation Planning (area wide)
Transportation and Traffic Operations
Corridor Planning, Conceptual/Functional Design (Engineering)
Detailed designs
Construction and Operations
Ahmed (Transportation Planner/Engineer)
Stephen (Transportation Engineer)
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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That’s it…
No, there is more
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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New paradigm
Facilitate the connection between community and mobility options
Information technology
Moving people instead of moving vehicles
Moving data instead of people
The entire trip, not just that portion of the trip on one mode or another
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Transportation Planning is Very complex: Multidimensional & Holistic approach
• Land use planning (real)
• Energy efficiency
• Emissions
• Traffic management
• Human behaviours (beyond models)
• Economics
• Finance
• Public policy
• Governance
• Health
• Safety
• Gender
• Disability
• Affordability
• Technology
How to relate all these?
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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How do we respond?
We will discuss after we hear Ahmed and Stephen’s perspective,
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
but the reality is that we need to start thinking transportation outside of the traditional box and traditional professions
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Perspective 2 – the academic
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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“Hard” (Physical) Sciences: deal with geometric design, structural design,
etc.
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Transportation Engineering
Transportation Engineering
“Soft” Sciences: deal with behaviour, welfare, urban
planning, network modelling, etc.
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Planning as Part of Transportation Engineering
Transportation engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation, and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods (ITE, 1987).
From my perspective, Planning is part of Engineering!
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Traditional Transportation System Cycle
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Traditional Transportation Planner
Traditional Transportation Planner/Engineer
Traditional Transportation Engineer
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Interdisciplinary Nature of Transportation Engineering Transportation engineering is an interdisciplinary field drawing on more established
disciplines to provide its basic framework
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Transportation Planning
The purpose of planning is to provide decision-makers with the information they need to make informed decisions
What is a model?
Simplification and abstraction of real-world phenomena that attempt to capture key elements of real-world behaviour
What for (in the context of transportation planning)?
Ask “what if” questions about system performance under various scenarios
Evaluate the impacts of infrastructure investments (e.g. LRT/BRT, HOV, TDM, etc.)
Policy analysis (e.g. congestion pricing, transit fare, GHG emission, etc.)
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Representing Space and Activities
Trips: are the basic unit of most travel demand analyses
Zones: represent the urban area where people and activities are located
Links: represent major streets, transit lines, etc.
Nodes: generally correspond to intersections, transit stops/stations, etc.
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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The Urban Transportation Modelling System (UTMS)
Understanding/predicting travel demand is the first step of all transportation planning practice
The UTMS
A standard modelling framework
Developed over the past 50 years
Also called the “four-step” model
Criticized world-wide by academics as well!
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Four Stages of Travel Demand Modelling
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Approaches to Urban Transportation Planning Transportation Planning is an indispensable component of Transportation Engineering! Historically, transportation planning was automobile oriented, infrastructure oriented,
and in some cases discriminatory!
Recent transportation planning trends are more concerned with multimodal transportation aiming at limiting automobile use and reducing emissions
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Perspective 3 – the hired gun (the consultant)
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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In our infancy as a field. Growing up.
• Transportation Engineers didn’t exist • Traffic Engineers – Signals, Operations • Civil Engineers – Structural, Pavement,
Maintenance • Transportation Planners didn’t exist
Confusing enough without bringing in the architects
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Land Use and Transportation
• Historically looked at cars as a result of the land use design.
Land Use: Suburbs Transportation: Drive Land Use: Parking at Work
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The result is…
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Land Use and Transportation
• Decades of experience, study and review
• Land use connection to transportation design and operations
• Reality is a circular relationship where the result is the next cause.
Transportation Land Use
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Can’t stay isolated
• Engineers rarely can work in a silo and ignore the planning consequences
• Within the workplace and throughout projects
• Conducting more studies on usage impacts caused by design elements
• Be cognisant that reports and results are going to be read, interpreted and acted upon by non-engineers
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Move forward or get left behind
• Base philosophies for good transportation systems:
• Old: build roads
• Old results: +lanes, +pollutants, +maintenance, -health, =congestion
• Current: support communities
• Current efforts: multimodal, +transit, +walk, +bike, -parking
Source: http://catherinemckenney.ca/
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Distinct Jobs Now Overlapping
• Engineers are not planners but they can do planning
• Planners are not engineers and cannot do engineering
• Nothing personal, it is a legal distinction
• …the noise engineer for the wind
developer is being sued.
• Wet roads have cost DOT millions in
claims, lawsuits
• City alleges negligence in lawsuit over
bridge engineering
• After fatal crash, changes coming to San
Francisco’s Twin Peaks
• Woman serves city with $9-million lawsuit
notice
• Judge says lawsuit against Everett in fatal
accident can proceed
• Motor vehicle accidents: top tips on suing
for damages
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Distinct Jobs Now In Need of Communication
• Engineers and Planners are all delving into the middle ground of Transportation Planning
• Requires some education as to the legal dividing lines to protect the public and the planners
• More engineers at PIBC and more planners at ITE
• Not - Transportation Planning VERSUS Transportation Engineering
• Instead - Transportation Planning with Planners and Engineers
https://www.cite7.org/
Planner or Engineer Engineering Academic Engineering Consultant
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Let’s now hear from you!
Let’s think