PUBLIC TRANSIT PLANNING COURSE
Two-Day Short Course: Public Transit Planning
June 23-24, 2008
303-35 St. George Street, Galbraith Building
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
This course aims to provide participants with tools for the analysis,
modelling and evaluation of public transit systems, at both the route and
network levels. It will enhance the participants’ knowledge of the key
operational and demand characteristics of public transit and of emerging ITS
innovations.
The course will be taught by two leading transit planning researchers from
Canada and Australia Prof Amer Shalaby and Prof Graham Currie.
Course Topics
• Strategic perspectives
• Transit demand characteristics and trends
• Transit network design
• Fundamentals of line analysis and scheduling
• Route demand forecasting
• Transit ITS and a TSP case study
• Economic evaluation of transit projects
• Transit assignment methods
More details at:
http://www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/infoabout/research/transport/subpages/public.htm
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