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Week 1 |
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Lecture theme:
Course Overview. The Planning Method
Required:
- One-page email on who you are and your primary interests on transportation, together with a digital photo of yourself
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Week 2 |
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Lecture theme:
Thumbnail history of Boston transportation & analysis of historical developments: interstate system, aviation, rail and transit
Discuss methods of traffic analysis, how to count traffic, discuss quantitative methods.
Assignment 1: Gateway Project
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Week 3 |
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Lecture theme:
Highway Revolt. Resurgence of transit. Was the revolt a rebellion or a revolution?
Discussion of emerging transportation issues & strategic planning model to "map" different approaches
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Week 4 |
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Lecture theme:
Class discussion on modes and characteristics & speed, capacity, LOS, external impacts
Assignment I Due
Presentation and Discussion of Assignment I
Assignment II: Millenium Database
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Week 5
TBD: Walking tour of nearby highway and transit sites |
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Lecture theme:
Quantitative methods: GIS, 4-step model, traffic models, NEPA
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Week 6
OPTIONAL Skill session: mind-mapping, GIS, modeling
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Lecture theme:
Transportation and Land Use -
Chicken and Egg
The Transit Challenge
Assignment II Due
Discussion of Assignment II
Assignment III: Central Square
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Week 7 |
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Lecture Theme:
Project Selection; cost-effectiveness, prioritization, institutional roles; MPOs and modal agencies.
FTA cost-effectiveness; FHWA system completion method
Transportation planning as urban design
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Week 8 |
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Lecture theme:
Spending other people's money-what are the rules? Economic evaluation. Financial evaluation, Programming, Fiscal constraint, Job generation, industrial policy, Constituencies, Jack Sprat, and organization choices
Assignment IV: South Boston Project - Transportation and the Local Economy
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Week 9
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Lecture theme:
Environmental concerns-air quality, energy consumption, global warming, NEPA Infrastructure sufficiency analysis
Assignment III Due - Discussion with Cambridge officials
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Week 10 |
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Lecture theme:
Legislation as cause of process. Legislation as reflection of public sentiment Legislation and delayed implementation by institutions
Assignment IV due
Assignment V: Final Project: Alewife, Suburban Transit Oriented Development
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Week 11 |
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Lecture theme:
Intelligent Transport Systems
Modeling and Policy
Discuss Assignment IV
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Week 12 |
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Modeling exercises
Congestion pricing
Parking Policy. Employment policies.
Housing Finance. Tax Code
Transportation and industrial policy
Assignment V due
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Week 13
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Discussion of Alewife Project |
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Week 14
See note on IAP modeling workshop
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Lecture theme:
Infrastructure reconstruction
Operations & maintenance
Airport access and international access
New Surface Transportation and New Aviation Legislation
Privatization
Final Assignment Due
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