TRANSPORTATION MIDYEAR

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Is the application of scientific principles to the planning, design, operation and management of transportation systems.

COMPONENTS OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM:

PHYSICAL FACILITIES

FLEETS

OPERATING BASED AND FACILITIES

ORGANIZATIONS - Facility oriented organizations & operating organizations

OPERATING STRATEGIES

PHYSICAL FACILITIES

It includes STREETS, ROADS & HIGHWAYS: railroads, airports, sea and river ports, pipelines & canals

FLEETS

It includes vehicles, vessels and aircraft.

OPERATING BASED AND FACILITIES

It includes vehicle maintenance facilities and office space.

ORGANIZATIONS

FACILITY-ORIENTED ORGANIZATIONS - are primarily involved in planning, designing, constructing, maintaining and operating fixed facilities.

OPERATING ORGANIZATIONS- knowns as carriers , are primarily concerned with operating fleets to provide transportation services.

OPERATING STRATEGIES

It includes vehicle routing, scheduling and traffic control.

TRADITIONAL MOTIVATIONS FOR PUBLIC & PRIVATE INVESTMENT

MILITARY

POLITICAL

ECONOMIC

MILITARY

Road networks built by Romans and Napoleon and the German autobahns built by Hitler in the 1930s.

TRADITIONAL MOTIVATION FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT:

POLITICAL

ECONOMIC

Physical transfer of persons or goods from one location to another.

MODES

In general, it means a “KIND” of transportation. The modes are distinguished in terms of their physical characteristics for highway, railway, airports and water transportation.

EFFECTIVENESS IS DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF:

ACCESSIBILITY

MOBILITY

PRODUCTIVITY

ACCESSIBILITY

Refers to the cost of getting to and from mode in question, depending on primarily on geographical extensiveness.

MOBILITY

Is described in terms of speed or travel time.

PRODUCTIVITY

Refers to some measure of the total amount of transportation provided per unit time.

COST ARE DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF :

CAPITAL COSTS & OPERATING COSTS

CAPITAL COSTS

Are those of MAJOR ITEMS that must be purchased before an enterprise can function.

OPERATING COSTS

Are DAY-TO-DAY EXPENDITURES involved in carrying out the enterprises and are usually thought of as including the costs of labor, fuel, tired, batteries.

MARKETS ARE DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF:

PASSENGER MARKETS

FREIGHT MARKETS

PASSENGER MARKETS classified as:

URBAN TRAVEL- within a single urban area.

INTERCITY TRAVEL - between urban areas.

INTERCITY MARKETS - trips are short less than 160km, medium 160 to 800km long, greater than 800km.

FREIGHT MARKETS

BULK FREIGHT - materials usually of low value per unit weight or volume that can be scooped or poured such as coal, grain or petroleum.

GENERAL CARGO - includes most manufactured goods.

HIGHWAYS

Is used by truck lines and bus lines.

Its major markets are urban passenger, goods distribution, intercity passenger transportation & intercity freight.

URBAN TRANSIT

It includes traditional mass transit modes such as buses, street cars and light rail, jeepneys and tricycle

The market served by urban transit is urban passenger transportation

RAIL

The primarily market of rail is intercity freight.

Most of passenger rail trips are of short to intermediate length.

the rail system provides moderate speeds and levels of accessibility.

AIR TRANSPORTATION

Airport transportation system includes commercial airlines, airfreight carriers and general aviation.

The major markets are urban is intercity passenger, some intercity freight is shipped by air.

The primary service is its high line/haul speed.

WATER

Consists of coastwise ocean shipping and barge lines operating on inland waterways.

The market for water transportation is intercity freight.

Includes container ship, bulk cargo carriers and oil tankers.

PIPELINES

A highly specialized freight transportation system.

Their market is almost entirely crude oil, petroleum products and natural gas.

They provide very low-speed high capacity continuous flow transportation, involve large amount of working storage.