CIVL466 URBAN PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATON: SYSTEMS
AND TECHNOLOGY
Week One
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Urban Public Transportation
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What?
Why?
How?
When Started?
Where?
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Basic Definitions
• What is Public Transportation?
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
What is Public Transportation?
• Public transportation consists of passenger
transportation that is available for general public
• Buses, subways, trolleys and light rail, commuter
trains, van pool services, paratransit services for
senior citizens and people with disabilities, ferries,
water taxis, or monorails can be used for public
transportation
• Provided by a company or authority that operate a
fleet of vehicles
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Why Public Transportation?
• Cleaner environment, energy savings or a
better quality of life, reducing traffic congestion
• Reducing dependence on imported fuel
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
How? Bus
• Bus rapid transit (Metrobus), Express bus
service, · Paratransit(shared taxis, jitneys), ·
Public light bus, · Transit bus (commuter bus,
city bus, or public bus), · Trolleybus
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Public Light Bus
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Trolleybus
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
How? Rail
• Cable railway, · Commuter rail, · Heavy rail, ·
Heritage railway, · Heritage streetcar, · Highspeed rail, · Inter-city rail, Interurban, · Light
rail, · Maglev, · Medium-capacity rail transport
system, · Monorail
• People mover, · Personal rapid transit, ·
Rapid transit, · Regional rail, · Rubber-tyred
metro, · Tram, · Tram-train
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Commuter Rail
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Heritage Rail
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Heritage Streetcar
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
High-Speed Rail (581 km/h)!
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Inter-City Rail
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Interurban Rail
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Light Rail-Dublin Ireland
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Light Rail-Eskişehir, Turkey
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Light Rail-Paris, France
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Maglev-TransRapid Shanghai, China
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Monorail-Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Monorail-Dusseldorf Airport, Germany
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Monorail-Disneyworld, Florida, USA
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Basic Definitions
• When Public Transportation Started?
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES
– Transportation and Locations of Cities
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Transloading Points and Route Crossings
Mining Locations
Strategic Considerations
Resorts
Political or ‘‘Representative’’ Reasons
– Transportation and City Size
• walking, use of public transit, and driving a car inﬂuences the size
and type of life in cities
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES
• Form and Structure of Cities
– The ancient city of Miletus in Asia Minor is often mentioned
as one of the ﬁrst systematically planned cities (about 450
B.C.). It had a regular grid pattern of streets, indicating the
attention given to transportation within the city.
– In the Middle Ages, the dominant role of market activities in
the creation of the city inﬂuenced the formation of its core;
typically, markets remained the central places, and the
church, city hall, and other religious and secular central
facilities were located immediately around them.
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES
• Form and Structure of Cities
– The fact that internal circulation was performed mostly by
walking and the requirement that the city be surrounded by
massive defense walls dictated that cities be built with a
very compact structure
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES
• The Industrial Revolution, Urbanization,
and the Growth of Cities
– New jobs in cities offered employment opportunities
and attracted the rural population with the prospect of
higher wages.
– The major shift proceeded from the primary sector of
the economy (agriculture) to the secondary
(manufacturing industry) and tertiary (government,
administration, banking, trade, education, culture, etc.)
sectors.
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES
• The Industrial Revolution, Urbanization,
and the Growth of Cities
– New jobs in cities offered employment
opportunities and attracted the rural
population with the prospect of higher wages.
– The major shift proceeded from the primary
sector of the economy (agriculture) to the
secondary (manufacturing industry) and
tertiary (government, administration, banking,
trade, education, culture, etc.) sectors.
• BEGINNINGS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology
Dr. Mehmet M. Kunt
Civil Eng., EMU
CIVL466 Urban Public Transportation: Systems
and Technology