OVERSEAS APPLICATIONS OF MICROCOMPUTERS ON A TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT

The application of microcomputers in various phases of a multidisciplinary project encompassing a comprehensive transportation planning study and preliminary engineering for a metro or rail rapid transit system and an underwater railroad tube tunnel for Istanbul, Turkey, is described. Microcomputers were used to process the results of 9 person-year effort of travel data collection. Over 70 megabytes of processed data files were created using various specialized software programs. Calibration of a complex four-step transportation modeling system, as well as testing of numerous alternatives were successfully accomplished on microcomputers. A wide range of engineering applications, structural analyses, cost estimation, project control and scheduling, and cost control tasks also were accomplished for which the microcomputer was found to be an indispensable tool. Tabulations of data and results, computer-generated graphics, and the word processing capabilities of microcomputers permitted the efficient production of a large number of complex project reports (in two languages) on time and in a cost-effective manner. Staff training of personnel without previous computer experience was surprisingly easy and was accomplished within a very short period of time due to the user friendliness of modern software. The versatility of microcomputers and the effectiveness with which they were applied to this complex overseas project was surprising. Despite certain difficulties and problems, it is apparent that present day microcomputer technology can be successfully used in somewhat isolated overseas environments to develop a complex engineering/planning project.

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• Authors:
  • Dehghani, Youssef
  • Kudlick, Walter
  • Strombom, Cathy
  • Grantz, Walter
• Publication Date: 1987

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: pp 60-65
• Monograph Title: Urban public transportation: planning and service operation issues
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1108
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Engineering; Information processing; Mathematical models; Microcomputers; Railroads; Rapid transit; Transportation; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation models
• Geographic Terms: Istanbul (Turkey)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00475231
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309044561
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Nov 30 1987 12:00AM