Welcome to CVL746: Public Transportation Systems
Pramesh Kumar
IIT Delhi
July 23, 2024
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Course information
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Student learning expectations
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Course information
▶ Meeting time: Slot D (TWF 9-10 A.M.) (Please come to the class
on-time!)
▶ My office: 322, Block-IV
▶ Office hours: TBD
▶ Email: pkk@[Link]. Include ”CVL746” in the subject line.
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What is this course about?
Introduction to transit planning and operations, which includes
▶ Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
▶ Quality of service and capacity analysis
▶ Transit data
▶ Transit assignment
▶ Network design
▶ Scheduling
▶ New developments
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Outline
Course information
Prerequisites
Course logistics
Student learning expectations
Books
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Prerequisites
▶ Calculus
▶ Computer programming
▶ Linear algebra
▶ Basics of transportation planning
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Outline
Course information
Prerequisites
Course logistics
Student learning expectations
Books
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Grading
1. In-class exercises (20%)
2. Homework assignments (25%)
3. Minor exam (25%)
4. Major exam1 (25%)
1 Major exam will be cumulative
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In-class exercises
▶ I’ll ask you to work on some in-class exercises.
▶ You are encouraged to discuss these with your peers.
▶ Please submit your exercise sheet right after the class ends.
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Homework assignments
▶ Submit them through Moodle.
▶ Late submission of assignment will be allowed up to two days after
the deadline. For each day, there will be a penalty of 25% deduction
in points.
▶ You may discuss it with your peers but you should submit your
solutions individually.
▶ I take copying and plagiarism very seriously. So please don’t do it!
Please refer to the syllabus and honor code available in Courses of
Study for more details.
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Attendance
▶ You need to attend at least 75% of classes
▶ Otherwise you will be awarded one grade less than the actual grade
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Auditing the course
To get an NP grade
▶ You need to attend at least 75% of classes
▶ You need to earn at least 30% (aggregated) of total marks.
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Outline
Course information
Prerequisites
Course logistics
Student learning expectations
Books
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Student learning expectations
▶ Understanding transit oriented development
▶ Performing quality of service and capacity analysis
▶ Understanding various ways of collecting passenger behavior data
▶ Modeling transit network
▶ Understanding transit assignment models
▶ Using optimization solvers to solve various transit planning problems
▶ Learning about the recent advances in transit service
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Course information
Prerequisites
Course logistics
Student learning expectations
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Reference books
There is no required textbook for this course. The following are the
references:
▶ Ceder, Avishai. Public transit planning and operation: Modeling,
practice and behavior. CRC press, 2016.
▶ Vuchic, Vukan R. Urban transit: operations, planning, and
economics. John Wiley & Sons, 2017. [Free PDF]
▶ Gkiotsalitis, Konstantinos. Public transport optimization. Springer,
2022.
▶ Daganzo, Carlos F., and Yanfeng Ouyang. Public transportation
systems: Principles of system design, operations planning and
real-time control. 2019.
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Thank you!
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