Anyone studying Traffic/City Planning? Need lecture notes!

[smallfly]

Hi together!

For my current software project I need some lecture notes/scripts of university lectures related to traffic planning (road, rail, water, air) and/or city planning. Is anyone of you studying something like that? If so, please email me some of your PDF scripts (english or german). That would be very kind.

Thanks
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[audigex]

Not sure entirely how helpful these will be, but here are some civil engineering notes - they should have some content you're looking for?

http://www.aboutcivil.com/

http://www.engineeringcivil.com/theory/ ... versities/

[smallfly]

first of all thanks for your help. but i do not need stuff about engineering buildings, but about planning cities and streets

[andel]

Perhaps you could maybe word what you want a little better? You are looking for street layout planning nodes, part of which will come from Civil Engineering, where the layout of housing will involve an element of street planning?

[smallfly]

Perhaps you could maybe word what you want a little better?

At the moment I'm happy about any documentation about street/traffic planning, i.e. established traffic calming methods, typical urban road layouts, traffic management systems, any studies about congestions, intercity and innercity car movements etc.

If there is anybody studying something with the word "traffic" or "transport" it its name (i.e. master of science in transportation systems), he/she will have enough documents to satisfy my needs

[andel]

Perhaps you could maybe word what you want a little better?

At the moment I'm happy about any documentation about street/traffic planning, i.e. established traffic calming methods, typical urban road layouts, traffic management systems, any studies about congestions, intercity and innercity car movements etc.

If there is anybody studying something with the word "traffic" or "transport" it its name (i.e. master of science in transportation systems), he/she will have enough documents to satisfy my needs

No, perhaps you're now misunderstanding me. You were not clear in your request and someone offered you something around the basis. Civil Engineering is the basis around street planning. Transport and Highways Infrastructure is what you need, which is part of Civil Engineering degrees.

[audigex]

Yup, that was my thinking - a friend of mine does civil engineering and he was telling me about a city planning module he does.

It's like simcity but harder, apparently.

[smallfly]

Yup, that was my thinking - a friend of mine does civil engineering and he was telling me about a city planning module he does.

It's like simcity but harder, apparently.

Yeah, and one of the things I need PDFs about

No, perhaps you're now misunderstanding me. You were not clear in your request and someone offered you something around the basis. Civil Engineering is the basis around street planning. Transport and Highways Infrastructure is what you need, which is part of Civil Engineering degrees.

Yeah, I think you need to study Civil Engineering first/at all (Bachelor) to do a special City Planning/Traffic Planner Master upon it.

[Kevo00]

How about CBRD's interchanges page? http://www.cbrd.co.uk/interchanges/

Not everything you want, but that's basically what's in the traffic planner's handbook when it comes to junctions!

[smallfly]

How about CBRD's interchanges page? http://www.cbrd.co.uk/interchanges/

Nice, but not enough material to keep me busy for more than 5 minutes

//EDIT

http://www.engineeringcivil.com/theory/ ... versities/

I had a closer look at this site and there are a few helpful things: i.e. different types of construction vehicles, a few images showing different road junctions

[teccuk]

On Andel's point, i would disagree that civil engineering is the basis for street planning. The engineers are technical people who know their transition curves inside out but you need urban designers and planners to interface with public, politicians, and developers and see the bigger strategic picture. When we had engineering based planning for a short period in the 1960's we ended up with a disaster.

Your question is pretty broad. Really intriguing though and your game looks great. If you want a crash course in urban planning, there are loads of books.

Are you looking to start with more abstract geographical theories of development and then look at urban morphology? Then get down to modern transport planning and engineering? Or you just want some pointers on what traffic network tend to look like?

I can recommend some good UK based books, there are some EU publications that are awesome to.

[smallfly]

On Andel's point, i would disagree that civil engineering is the basis for street planning. The engineers are technical people who know their transition curves inside out but you need urban designers and planners to interface with public, politicians, and developers and see the bigger strategic picture.

sounds logical

Your question is pretty broad.

because the game will be very broad

If you want a crash course in urban planning

I do

there are loads of books.

I know. but before buying many (very expensive because seldom bought) books (costing around 100 euro each) i would prefer downloading some lecture scripts (concerning book prices: There is for example a book called "Stadtverkehrsplanung: Grundlagen, Methoden, Ziele" (meaning city traffic planning) costing 116.99 EUR not very less for a student

Are you looking to start with more abstract geographical theories of development and then look at urban morphology? Then get down to modern transport planning and engineering? Or you just want some pointers on what traffic network tend to look like?

I want everything I can get about those topics Since Im studying engineering and economics I do have enough stuff about logistics and the technical part. Im just missing things like city planning, street layout planning etc.

[teccuk]

Ok. I'll see what I can do. I'll try and scan some stuff in. Nice diagrams and the like.

[smallfly]

Ok. I'll see what I can do. I'll try and scan some stuff in. Nice diagrams and the like.

You have to scan it? Thats too much work. I'm only looking for digital stuff - to not make more work than sending an email I also contacted some professors of traffic related study courses. Perhaps they will also hand out some material.

[robo]

I don't know if it's useful, but I found this very basic but informative article (not only related to Simcity) some time ago:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity ... story.html
Concerning road layouts I suggest to look at this chinese website edushi.com for some inspiration, perhaps it's possible to build some of this interchanges in a similar way in a 2Dgame just by combining some wide curve road elements. http://hongkong.edushi.com/?L=en

[smallfly]

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity ... story.html

will check that

chinese website edushi.com for some inspiration

its indeed quite inspiring thx

EDIT: I got an answer from a german traffic related university with some useful PDFs