Outline of transportation planning

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to transportation planning.

Transportation planning – process of defining future policies, goals, investments, and spatial planning designs to prepare for future needs to move people and goods to destinations.

Context

 * Built environment
 * Urban planning
 * Land-use

Tools and inputs

 * 3D city model
 * Accessibility (transport)
 * Benefit-cost ratio
 * City-building game
 * Generalised cost
 * Hierarchy of roads
 * Isochrone map
 * Land-use forecasting
 * Local transport plan
 * New Approach to Appraisal
 * Permeability (spatial and transport planning)
 * SmartCode
 * Traffic simulation
 * Transport economics
 * Transport engineering
 * Transport forecasting
 * Travel behavior
 * Trip generation
 * Trip distribution
 * Mode choice
 * Route assignment

Purpose and implementation

 * Automobile dependency
 * Bicycle poverty reduction
 * Bus lane
 * Curb extension
 * Cycling advocacy
 * Home zone / Play Street
 * Journey to work
 * Modal shift
 * Shared space
 * Street hierarchy
 * Student transport
 * Traffic flow
 * Urban resilience

Theories

 * Braess's paradox
 * Lewis-Mogridge position

Sustainable transport

 * Complete streets
 * Freeway removal
 * Green transport hierarchy
 * Road diet
 * Road expansion
 * Highway revolt
 * Transit-oriented development
 * Transit mall
 * Living street
 * Low emission zone
 * Clean Air Zone
 * Ultra Low Emission Zone
 * Zero-emission zone
 * Zürich model

Cycling infrastructure

 * Cycling infrastructure
 * Bike freeway
 * Cycle lane

Outcomes and impacts

 * Gridlock
 * Induced demand
 * Traffic congestion
 * Transit desert
 * Transport divide
 * Travel blending
 * Travel plan

Social

 * Active mobility
 * Health impact of light rail systems
 * Obesity and walking

Measurements of planning outcomes

 * Available seat miles
 * Crush load
 * Cycling mobility
 * Passenger load factor
 * Passengers per hour per direction
 * Patronage (transportation)
 * Public transport accessibility level
 * Route capacity
 * Units of transportation measurement
 * Walkability

Notable publications and government reports

 * The Death and Life of Great American Cities
 * Roads for Prosperity
 * Sustainable Development Goal 11
 * Traffic in Towns
 * A New Deal for Transport: Better for everyone

People

 * Siân Berry
 * Ernest Marples
 * Robert Moses
 * Sam Schwartz
 * Jarrett Walker
 * John Whitelegg
 * Christian Wolmar

Organizations

 * Automobile association
 * Motor club
 * Pedestrian's Association
 * Sustrans
 * Transport planning professional (UK)