TRANSPORT PLANNING AND TERMINAL DESIGN

Transport

Transport system connect the parts of the cities and help shape them, and enable movement throughout the city.

They include road, bicycle, rail, and pedestrian networks, and together form the total movement system of a city.

o Transport systems Composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer.

Brief History of transport (video)

Modes of transportation

Rail transportation

Pipeline

Water transportation

Air transportation

Terminal

Terminals may be points of interchange within the same modal system and which insure a continuity of the flows.

Transportation terminal

A terminal may be defined as any facility where freight and passengers are assembled or dispersed. They may be points of interchange involving the same mode of transport.

Principles and theories

Elements

o Nodes These are reflected in the centrality of urban activities, which can be related to the spatial accumulation of economic activities or to the accessibility to the transport system. (Terminals, etc.)

o LinkagesThese are the infrastructures supporting flows from, to and between nodes.

Categories

o Collective transportation (public transit)The purpose of collective transportation is to provide publicly accessible mobility over specific parts of a city.

o Individual transportationIncludes any mode where mobility is the outcome of a personal choice and means such as the automobile, walking, cycling and the motorcycle.

o Freight transportation These movements are mostly characterized by delivery trucks moving between industries, distribution centres, warehouses and retail activities as well as from major terminal such as ports, rail yards, distribution centres and airports.

Componentso Pedestrian areaso Roads and parkingo Cycling areaso Transit systemso Transport terminals

Physical constraintso Topography o Hydrographyo Climate

Absolute Barrierso Are geographical features that entirely prevent a movement. They must either

be bypassed or be overcome by specific infrastructures. o For instance, a river is considered as an absolute barrier for land transportation

and can only be overcome if a tunnel or a bridge is constructed.

Relative Barriers

o Are geographical features that force a degree of friction on a movement. In turn, this friction is likely to influence the path (route) selected to link two locations.

Conclusion

Transport/Terminal planning must consider main issues confronting transportation today and which are likely to have an even greater impact in the future.

Congestiono Demand for mobility exceeds the capacity to support it.o Random events bring about a temporary disruption to service (accident, flooding, etc.)

Environmento Energyo Atmospheric pollutiono Water qualityo Land take

Future transport developmentsthe way that an understanding of spatial relationships can contribute

to better management of the system.