Tutorial (Urban Transportation Planning Process)

1. Consider a zone with 500HH. Consider 250 HH have car and rest have no car. Take 6 trips per day per HH
having their own car and 2.5 trips per HH having no car. Calculate the total present day trips.

2. Develop the trip production equation for the following data.

Average HH size 2 3 4 5 6
Average total trips per day 5 7 8 10 10
What will be the total trips per day using the obtained equation for HH size=6

3. A land use planner observe that in 5 zone of the city the no. of petro pump (Y) in relation with population
(X) in 1000 was as follows:
Y 2 7 3 5 8
X 1 5 3 2 4
If the no of petrol pump planned for a zone is 6 what is the population of that zone.

4. A neighborhood has 205 retail employee and 700 HH that can be categorized with each type having
characteristics as follows:
Type HH Size Annual income ('000) No. of worker
1 2 40 1
2 3 50 2
3 3 55 1
4 4 40 3
There are 100 type 1, 200 type 2, 350 type 3 and 50 type 4 Households (HH). Assuming that shopping,
social/recreational and work based trips all occurs at same time i.e. at peak hour, determine the total no. of
trips.
Shopping trips(Y) = 0.12+ 0.099*HH+0.011*Income-0.15*employment in neighborhood (in 100)
Social/ recreational trips (Y) = 0.04+0.018*HH+0.009*Income+0.16*No. of worker

5. The base year trip matrix (O-D matrix) is given in adjacent table.
Destination
If the future trip generated in zone 1, 2 and 3 are 360, 1260 and Origin
3120 respectively. Calculate design year O-D matrix using: 1 2 3
(a)Uniform Growth factor method 1 60 100 200
(b) Average growth factor method
2 100 20 300
Compare the results.
3 200 300 20
6. Distribute 602 work based trips from zone 3 to other zone, including intra-zonal trips too using following
information. Use gravity model

Zone Work trip travel time

Frictional factor
From To Attraction (min)
1 1080 20 6
2 531 7 26
3 3 76 5 45
4 47 10 18
5 82 25 4

7. Trips production and attraction in three zone city are as follows:

Zones 1 2 3 Total
Trips produced 700 200 0 900
Trips attracted 0 400 500 900
 The impedance and corresponding frictional factors have been calibrated as follows
Impedance (travel time in minute) 2 4 6 8
Frictional factors 10 7 6 5

origin Destination
Distribute trips between the zones assuming 1 2 3
socio-economics factor as 1. 1 2 4 6
Perform only two iterations. 2 4 2 8
3 6 8 2

8. A four zone city has two residential zones A & B generating 725 & 575 trips respectively. These trips go to
two employment zones C & D attracting 875 and 425 trips respectively. The travel time in minutes between
zones in minute is A-C = 8, B-C 10, B-D= 13 & A-D=15. The frictional factor corresponding to these
travel times are 90, 60, 50 & 10 respectively. The socioeconomic factor is 1. Distribute the trips.

9. A market segment consists of 700 individuals. A multinomial logit mode choice model is calibrated for this
segment, resulting with following utility function.
U = B – 0.35*C – 0.015*T
Where, C= out of pocket cost (NRs)
T= Travel time (min)
B= 0 (Bus transit), -0.6 (Rail), -1.8(Auto)
C = 2.8 (Auto), 2 (Rail), 1.5 (Bus)
T = 10 (auto), 15 (Rail), 25 (Bus)

Predict no. of trips from this market segment that use each mode.

10. A calibrated cost function for travel in a medium sized city by auto, bus and rail is
C = A + 0.002*X + 0.05*Y
Where X= travel cost (cent) & Y = Travel time (minute)
Mode A X Y
Auto 0.3 130 25
Bus 0.35 75 35
Rail 0.4 90 40
Calculate modal split for the given values.

If a parking fee of $1 (100 cent) is imposed, what would be the split on other two modes?

11. A mode choice model for a city includes following modes: Autos(A), Light rail (L), buses (B) & Rapid rail
(R) with the utility function (U) as shown in tables.
Function: Cost (C) Time (T)
U(A)=3.2-0.3*C-0.04*T 5 30
U(L)= 1-0.3*C-0.04*T 3 25
U(B)= 0-0.1*C-0.01*T 2.5 40
U(R)= 1.5-0.3*C-0.05*T 6 20
where C is cost in dollars and T is time in minute.
(a) Based on estimate that 12,000 workers will head for downtown each morning, how many workers will
choose to take a particular mode?
(b) If government subsides light rail by 30%, buses by 20%, and rail rapid by 10% and the same time increases
automobile cost by 15%, what will be the new modal distribution?