Subject Code:         CE6L456 Subject Name  Public Transportation System L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit:03
Pre-requisite(s): None
Urban Passenger Transport Modes Classifications, Role of Mass Transportation System, Transit Modes and Characteristics, System Performance, Capacity, Quality of Service, efficiency and utilization,  trip makers’ perception analysis to various travel attributes, Willingness-to-pay estimation,  demand analysis and  user’s benefit  policy issue with reference to public transportation service improvement, optimal transport pricing policy, planning Issues, Route Determination, Network Design, Service Policy and Schedule development, Life Cycle cost in public transportation, Scheduling, Priority Measures and their Implementations, Issues and Challenges related to development of Mass Transportation System, Para-transits

Reference Books:
  1. Public Transit Planning and Operation: Theory, Modelling and Practice by Avishai Ceder
  2. Urban Transit Systems and Technology by Vukan R. Vuchik.
  3. Urban Transit: Operations, Planning and Economics by Vukan R. Vuchik
  4. Studies in the economics of transportation by Beckmann et al.
  5. Applied choice analysis: A Primer by David Hensher and Willium Greeene
  6. Transportation Decision Making: Principles of Project Evaluation and Programming, Wiley, 2007 by Kumares C. Sinha, Samuel Labi
  7. Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering by Fricker and Whitford
  8. Public Transportation related analysis using software like TRANSCAD, CUBE Software