Courses

Transportation Planning

General

  • Code: ΣΥΓ008
  • Semester:
  • Study Level: Undergraduate
  • Course type:
  • Teaching and exams language: Ελληνικά
  • Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Lectures (4)
  • ECTS Units: 5
  • Exams Schedule:

Course Contents

Course lecture content:
• Transportation system. Procedures and stakeholders. Types and subjects of studies in the field of
transport.
• Transport planning concepts. Principles and relations of traffic flow, speed and density and other
parameters.
• Sampling.
• Data collection and processing methodology.
• Models in transport planning and their statistical evaluation.
• Trip Generation
• Trip Distribution
• Modal split
• Disaggregated behavioral models.
• Network trip assignment

Educational Goals

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
• assess the traffic impacts expected to arise from the implementation of transportation projects and
the implementation of transport policies.
• take into account the above elements in the design of transportation systems, within the
framework of decision-making processes.

General Skills

The course contributes in the acquisition of the following skills:
• Investigation, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of appropriate
technologies
• Adaptation to new conditions
• Decision making
• Project planning and management
• Natural environment preservation

Teaching Methods

Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Lectures Presentation using laptop and video
projector or remotely, e-lecture if required.
• Learning process support through the electronic elearning platform.
• Distance meetings between teacher and students
for collaboration outside of class (via a digital platform, e.g.
ZOOM, Skype).
• Posting announcements on the Department’s
website and on the online page of the course within the
electronic e-learning platform.
• Teacher and student communication via email.
• Student evaluation

Teaching Organization

ActivitySemester workload
Lectures52
Individual study78
Total130

Students Evaluation

Final written exam including:
• Theory questions
• Exercises solving
The evaluation criteria are communicated to the students in
the first lecture of the course. Also, each student is given the
opportunity to check their writing and have their mistakes
analyzed.

Recommended Bibliography

  • Σταθόπουλος Α.Γ., Καρλαύτης Μ., (2016). Σχεδιασμός Μεταφορικών Συστημάτων. Α.
    ΠΑΠΑΣΩΤΗΡΙΟΥ & ΣΙΑ Ι.Κ.Ε., ISBN: 978-960-491-101-1.
  • Φραντζεσκάκης, Ι.Μ., Γιαννόπουλος, Γ.Α. (2005). Σχεδιασμός των Μεταφορών και
    Κυκλοφορική Τεχνική. Εκδόσεις Επίκεντρο Α.Ε., ISBN: 978-960-6647-20-8.
  • ITE (2016). Traffic Engineering Handbook. HEAL-Link Wiley ebooks, ISBN: 9781119174738.
  • Γιαννόπουλος Γ.Α. (2005). Σχεδιασμός των Μεταφορών. Εκδόσεις Επίκεντρο Α.Ε., ISBN:
    9789608868106
  • _Stathopoulos A.G., Karlaftis M., (2016). Transportation Systems Planning. Ed. PAPASOTIRIOU, ISBN: 978-
    960-491-101-1 [In Greek].
    _Frantseskakis, I.M., Giannopoulos, G.A. (2005). Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering.
    Epikentro Publications SA, ISBN: 978-960-6647-20-8 [In Greek].