Advanced Transportation Planning/Engineering E (winter, 2006)
Course Number: 713-044
Time: Friday 14:45-16:25
Venue: Lecture room # 16, Engineering Building No.1
Lecturers: Hitoshi IEDA, Tetsuo SHIMIZU and Hironori KATO
Office: Room # 338, Engineering Building No.1
Telephone: 03-5841-7451 (KATO)
E-mail: kato@civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course covers a variety of themes, all related to transport planning and engineering. It deals both theories and examples for many kinds of transport modes and policies. One part of this course presents the methodologies of travel demand/network analysis, whereas the other part discusses current policies and management schemes. They are important for transport practitioners and urban planners and that are not dealt in the other courses. Many of the topics introduced in this course will be presented at the intermediate level. The course is provided in English.
SCHEDULE
The course mainly consists of three sessions, provided by Kato, Shimizu and Ieda, respectively. We will partly invite two speakers from the outside of our university for special lectures. The detail of the class schedule is as follows:
SESSION 1: October 13 to November 10 by Kato
October 13: Discrete choice modeling (1)
October 20: Discrete choice modeling (2)
October 27: Discrete choice modeling (3)
November 10: Discrete choice modeling (4)
SESSION 2: November 17 to December 15 by Shimizu
November 17: Transport policy (1)
November 24: Transport policy (2)
December 8: Transport policy (3)
December 15: Transport policy (4)
December 22: SPECIAL LECTURE 1 by Ryo Ejiri (Central Japan Railway Co.)
January 12: SPECIAL LECTURE 2 by Dr. Surya Raj Acharya (Institute of Transport Policy Studies)
Title: Urban Transport Policy in Developing Countries: Issues and Prospects
SESSION
3: January 19 to February 9 by Ieda
January 19: Transportation Network Analysis (1)
January 26: Transportation Network Analysis (2)
February 2: Transportation Network Analysis (3)
February 9: Transportation Network Analysis (4)
Course Requirement
In Session 1, all classes are done in lecture-style. The lecturer will request all students to participate discussions on the topics provided by the lecturer. A submission of final report is a requirement of Session 1.
Session 2 will request the following
procedures. The lecturer will give more information on October 27.
(1) Grouping: All students will be divided into groups with 3 or
4 students.
(2) Preparation for presentation: Several preparation works will be
given a few weeks before the sessions start to all groups according to the
topic.
(3) Presentations, discussion and comments: In the first part of
the session, all groups will have to make a presentation about the topic given
by lecturer. All students will be requested to attend the discussion
positively. Lecturer will give comprehensive
and detailed comments on the presentation given by all groups.
(4) Follow-up lecture: In the second part of the session,
lecturer will have a lecture closely related to the topics.
(5) Report: All students should submit a final report.
The requirement of Session 3 will be provided soon after the
course start.
GRADING
Grading will be determined as
follows:
Attendance: 10%
Session Score: 60% (20%
per session. The criteria vary among sessions.)
Report: 30% (10% per
session)