Biology:Outline of transportation planning

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to transportation planning.

Transportation planning – process of defining future policies, goals, investments, and spatial planning designs to prepare for future needs to move people and goods to destinations.

Context

• Built environment
• Urban planning
• Land-use

Tools and inputs

• 3D city model
• Accessibility (transport)
• Benefit-cost ratio
• City-building game
• Generalised cost
• Hierarchy of roads
• Isochrone map
• Land-use forecasting
• Local transport plan
• New Approach to Appraisal
• Permeability (spatial and transport planning)
• SmartCode
• Traffic simulation
• Transport economics
• Transport engineering
• Transport forecasting
• Travel behavior
• Trip generation
• Trip distribution
• Mode choice
• Route assignment

Purpose and implementation

• Automobile dependency
• Bicycle poverty reduction
• Bus lane
• Curb extension
• Cycling advocacy
• Home zone / Play Street
• Journey to work
• Modal shift
• Shared space
• Street hierarchy
• Student transport
• Traffic flow
• Urban resilience

Theories

• Braess's paradox
• Lewis-Mogridge position

Sustainable transport

• Complete streets
• Freeway removal
• Green transport hierarchy
• Road diet
• Road expansion
• Highway revolt
• Transit-oriented development
• Transit mall
• Living street
• Low emission zone
  • Clean Air Zone
  • Ultra Low Emission Zone
  • Zero-emission zone
• Zürich model

Cycling infrastructure

• Cycling infrastructure
  • Bike freeway
  • Cycle lane

Outcomes and impacts

• Gridlock
• Induced demand
• Traffic congestion
• Transit desert
• Transport divide
• Travel blending
• Travel plan

Social

• Active mobility
• Health impact of light rail systems
• Obesity and walking

Measurements of planning outcomes

• Available seat miles
• Crush load
• Cycling mobility
• Passenger load factor
• Passengers per hour per direction
• Patronage (transportation)
• Public transport accessibility level
• Route capacity
• Units of transportation measurement
• Walkability

Notable publications and government reports

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Roads for Prosperity
• Sustainable Development Goal 11
• Traffic in Towns
• A New Deal for Transport: Better for everyone

People

• Siân Berry
• Ernest Marples
• Robert Moses
• Sam Schwartz
• Jarrett Walker
• John Whitelegg
• Christian Wolmar

Organizations

• Automobile association
• Motor club
• Pedestrian's Association
• Sustrans
• Transport planning professional (UK)

See also

• Outline of transport