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The module is divided into three parts including a total of 14 units. The contents of these units are as follows:

Part 1: Introduction to transport planning and modelling
This section includes introduction to transport planning and modelling and data collection.
Part 2: Transport and Traffic Models
This section includes trip generation techniques; trip distribution modelling (growth factor and synthetic techniques); modal choice modelling, Traffic flow theory, Microscopic simulation models, Random models of traffic and queuing models.

Part 3: Assignment and Route Choice Models
This part includes route choice studies; traffic assignment models (including capacity restrained and stochastic methods); elastic demand methods; matrix estimation. Overview of currently used transport modelling software.

On completion of this module you will be
able to:
LO1: examine the elements of transport
planning techniques
LO2: discriminate types of data and
methods of data collection for transport
planning, including ethical implications;
LO3: conceptualise and model the traveller
decision-making process
LO4: critically understand and apply
methods of network modelling and zoning
systems;
LO5: critically appraise and apply different
modelling approaches to the simulation of
traffic flows.