Lecture

Traffic Management: Circulation Plan

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This lecture introduces the circulation plan as a tool to manage traffic flows across all modes of transportation, addressing issues such as road capacity, mobility demand, congestion levels, and the need for multimodal solutions. It covers the objectives of circulation planning, the hierarchy of road networks, administrative and functional hierarchies, traffic diagnosis, and constraints faced in urban planning. Using the example of Ga West's Circulation Plan in Accra, the lecture explores traffic structure, challenges, and the concept of a multimodal approach. The instructor emphasizes the importance of integrating transportation and urban planning to optimize infrastructure usage and enhance accessibility.

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Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility.

Traffic congestion

Traffic congestion is a condition in transport that is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing. Traffic congestion on urban road networks has increased substantially since the 1950s. When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction between vehicles slows the traffic stream, this results in congestion. While congestion is a possibility for any mode of transportation, this article will focus on automobile congestion on public roads.

Transportation demand management

Transportation demand management, traffic demand management or travel demand management (TDM) is the application of strategies and policies to reduce travel demand, or to redistribute this demand in space or in time. In transport, as in any network, managing demand can be a cost-effective alternative to increasing capacity. A demand management approach to transport also has the potential to deliver better environmental outcomes, improved public health, stronger communities, and more prosperous cities.

Congestion pricing

Congestion pricing or congestion charges is a system of surcharging users of public goods that are subject to congestion through excess demand, such as through higher peak charges for use of bus services, electricity, metros, railways, telephones, and road pricing to reduce traffic congestion; airlines and shipping companies may be charged higher fees for slots at airports and through canals at busy times. Advocates claim this pricing strategy regulates demand, making it possible to manage congestion without increasing supply.

Theories of urban planning

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