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2.3 THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS

As an engineer, responsibility to planning a new public transportation need to propose transportation
planning process involved with the evaluation, assessment, design and sitting of transport facilities. So
in that process, you can explain :

Evaluation
 Transport planning aims to evaluate for ensure that is suitable, safe and interconnected
transport infrastructure for different transport mode such as bus, rail, LRT, Monorail and taxi
services.
 It also consider for pedestrian for walking and cycling, which results in improving the
community’s accessibility to jobs, services, recreation and other daily activities.
 To provide for and improve the safety and security of transportation customers and the
transportation system.
 Collect the data population from survey data to evaluate the size, capacity, location facilities,
land, public transport, material and etc.
 Evaluate the duration time for preliminary process, construction process and maintenance
process.

Assessment
 Quality assessment especially for quality plan, material quality, workers quality, machinery
quality and investments in transportation systems and services.
 Provide a good contractor and developer to organize the quality improvement.
 All components related must be systematic, ongoing cycle of collecting and analysing.
 The information collected is used to evaluate how the progress to assess the design and
functionality.
 To support quality of planning to improvement efforts.

Design
 To make sure the design was follow the standard in all aspects covered with transport design,
facilities design, geometry design and infrastructure design.
 Environmental consideration to minimize pollution.
 The design must be economical to reduce cost of operation and maintenance.
 Comfortable design to give users comfortable facilities, convenient and efficient.
 To provide safety design and compatible movement of people and goods.

Sitting transport facilities
 Provide proper signage and road marking for helping users as guidance to warning and
regulations.
 ITS (Intelligent transportation system) was applied to transport facilities.
 Advanced traffic control system such as ramp meter also recommend on this proposal.
 Vehicle infrastructure integration in order to improve road safety.
 Designing equipment and devices to fit human body and cognitive abilities.

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