Introduction to

Transportation
Systems

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SUMMARY
NOTE TO INSTRUCTORS: These slides
cover major ideas from the course, and
should be supplemented with other materials
presented by the instructor.

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 SO WHERE HAVE WE BEEN
IN 1.221?
u Concepts
u CLIOS
u 30 Key Points
u Freight Transportation
u Total Logistics Costs (TLC)
u LOS for freight modes
u Operating issues
u Traveler Transportation
u Automobiles
u Urban Form and Transportation
u ITS
u Urban Public Transportation
u Megacities
u Intercity Traveler Transportation--Air, Amtrak, e.g.

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 SOME EMPHASIZED POINTS

u The Triplet of
Technology/Systems/Institutions
u Level-of-Service (LOS)--freight and travelers-
-the importance of the customer
u The Cost/LOS trade-off
u Supply/Demand/Equilibrium
u The Vehicle-cycle
u Transportation as a component of a larger
social-political-economic system--a force for
good and otherwise
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 “REAL WORLD”

ABSTRACTION

MODELS FRAMEWORKS

ANALYSIS

RESULTS/
DESIGN

PROFESSIONAL “COMMON
JUDGMENT SENSE”

PRACTICAL
SOLUTION
POLITICAL
REALITIES
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TRANSITIONS IN THE
WORLD OF
TRANSPORTATION:
A SYSTEMS VIEW
Joseph M. Sussman
Transportation Quarterly
Vol. 56, No. 1, Winter 2002
Eno Transportation Foundation
Washington, DC, 2002

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SUMMARY OF TRANSITIONS
From To

1. Capital Management
Planning and Operations
Focus

2. Long Real-time
Timeframes Control

3. Urban Scale Regional Scale

Planning Planning
and Operations and Operations

4. Emphasis on Emphasis on
Mobility Accessibility
(the Tr ansportation/
Land-Use
Connection

5. Customer
“One Size Orientation
Fits All” Quality
Service Pricing for
Service
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(CONTINUED)
F ROM TO

6. ALLOCATE ALLOCATE
C APACITY C APACITY
BY Q UEUING BY P RICING

7. AGGREGATE D ISAGGREGATE
M ETHODS FOR M ETHODS FOR
D EMAND P REDICTION D EMAND P REDICTION

8. E PISODIC D ATA D YNAMIC D ATA

FOR FOR
I NVESTMENT P LANNING I NVESTMENT P LANNING
( AND O PERATIONS )

9. P RIVATE AND P UBLIC /

P RIVATE P ARTNERSHIPS
P UBLIC F INANCING FOR F INANCING
FOR OF I NFRASTRUCTURE
I NFRASTRUCTURE AND O PERATIONS
AND O PERATIONS U SING H YBRID R ETURN
ON I NVESTMENT
M EASURES

10. I NFRASTRUCTURE N EW H IGH -

C ONSTRUCTION AND T ECHNOLOGY
M AINTENANCE P ROVIDERS P LAYERS
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(CONTINUED)
F ROM TO

11. S TATIC D YNAMIC

O RGANIZATIONS O RGANIZATIONS
AND I NSTITUTIONAL AND I NSTITUTIONAL
R ELATIONSHIPS R ELATIONSHIPS

12. P ROFESSIONAL
P ROFESSIONAL E MPHASIS ON
E MPHASIS ON T RANSPORTATION
D ESIGN OF P HYSICAL AS A C OMPLEX ,
I NFRASTRUCTURE L ARGE -SCALE ,
I NTEGRATED , O PEN
S YSTEM (CLIOS)

13. E CONOMIC S USTAINABLE

D EVELOPMENT D EVELOPMENT

14. C OMPUTERS ARE U BIQUITOUS

“J UST A T OOL ” C OMPUTING

15. F ROM TO AND O N T O

S UPPLY -SIDE S UPPLY /D EMAND S YSTEMS THAT
P ERSPECTIVE E QUILIBRIUM N EVER R EACH
F RAMEWORK E QUILIBRIUM
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(CONTINUED)
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16. I NDEPENDENT L INKED ADVANCED

C ONVENTIONAL I NFRASTRUCTURE
I NFRASTRUCTURE P ROJECTS R EQUIRING
P ROJECTS A S YSTEM
ARCHITECTURE

17. V EHICLES AND V EHICLES AND

I NFRASTRUCTURE I NFRASTRUCTURE AS
AS I NDEPENDENT E LECTRONICALLY
L INKED

18. R EDUCING
C ONSEQUENCES C RASH AVOIDANCE
OF C RASHES

19. F ROM TO AND O N T O

M ODAL I NTERMODAL S UPPLY C HAIN
P ERSPECTIVE P ERSPECTIVE M ANAGEMENT

20. N ARROW T HE N EW
T RANSPORTATION T RANSPORTATION
S PECIALISTS P ROFESSIONAL