TRANSPORT PLANNING AND TERMINAL DESIGN

Transport
Transport system connect the parts of the cities and help shape them, and enable movement
throughout the city.
They include road, bicycle, rail, and pedestrian networks, and together form the total movement
system of a city.


o Transport systems
Composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-
economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to
the consumer.

Brief History of transport (video)

Modes of transportation
Rail transportation


Pipeline


Water transportation


Air transportation









Terminal
Terminals may be points of interchange within the same modal system and which insure a continuity of
the flows.




Transportation terminal
A terminal may be defined as any facility where freight and passengers are assembled or dispersed. They
may be points of interchange involving the same mode of transport.


Principles and theories

Elements

o Nodes
These are reflected in the centrality of urban activities, which can be related to the
spatial accumulation of economic activities or to the accessibility to the transport
system. (Terminals, etc.)

o Linkages
These are the infrastructures supporting flows from, to and between nodes.


Categories

o Collective transportation (public transit)
The purpose of collective transportation is to provide publicly accessible mobility over
specific parts of a city.

o Individual transportation
Includes any mode where mobility is the outcome of a personal choice and means such
as the automobile, walking, cycling and the motorcycle.

o Freight transportation
These movements are mostly characterized by delivery trucks moving between
industries, distribution centres, warehouses and retail activities as well as from major
terminal such as ports, rail yards, distribution centres and airports.

Components
o Pedestrian areas
o Roads and parking
o Cycling areas
o Transit systems
o Transport terminals

Physical constraints
o Topography
o Hydrography
o Climate

Absolute Barriers
o Are geographical features that entirely prevent a movement. They must either
be bypassed or be overcome by specific infrastructures.
o For instance, a river is considered as an absolute barrier for land transportation
and can only be overcome if a tunnel or a bridge is constructed.

Relative Barriers
o Are geographical features that force a degree of friction on a movement. In
turn, this friction is likely to influence the path (route) selected to link two
locations.




Conclusion

Transport/Terminal planning must consider main issues confronting transportation today and which are
likely to have an even greater impact in the future.

Congestion
o Demand for mobility exceeds the capacity to support it.
o Random events bring about a temporary disruption to service (accident, flooding, etc.)

Environment
o Energy
o Atmospheric pollution
o Water quality
o Land take

Future transport developments
the way that an understanding of spatial relationships can contribute
to better management of the system.