Module 2: PROCESS OF TRANSPORT PLANNING
Planning and Development of DEVELOPMENT
Transportation Networks 1. SYSTEM PLANNING
- integrated urban mobility and land use strategy formulated
and used to identify priority corridors for potential rapid
transit development.
2. CORRIDOR PLANNING
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT - costs and benefits of multiple rapid transit investment
FOR alternatives for a given corridor identified and analyzed.
TRANSPORT PLANNING - THE FOUR A’S FRAMEWORK
Availability – connectivity and coverage
Accessibility – ease at which someone can
access opportunities
GENERAL EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Affordability – financial and opportunity costs,
LEGISLATION amount that the commuter is willing to spen
- other laws to consider and comply with (environmental, Acceptability – quality of user experience
PWDs)
DEMOGRAPHY - SIX STEP DECISION MAKING PROCESS
- ridership characteristics (students, employees, etc.)
1. Diagnostic Studies
SOCIAL GROUPS AND ATTITUDES
- acceptance of affected people towards the project - Understand existing conditions
- indigent, middle class and upper-class ridership - enumerate current needs and challenges
ECONOMY - identify their underlying causes
- acceleration of country growth - set planning objectives and their corresponding
- need based on current finances of area/country Performance indicators for potential solutions
PHYSICAL RESOURCES 2. Land Use Strategy
- availability of resources - Connects transportation interventions with land
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT use
- space constraints, development of area
Considerations and other sustainable development
POLITICS
goals
- plans of LGUs, coordination with other LGUs
CULTURE - recommends long-term packages of policy
- heritage issues actions
TECHNOLOGY 3. Investment Alternatives
- international trend on technology - starts by defining a base case alternative,
representing the
best possible improvement to existing
ORGANIZATIONAL EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT infrastructure and
GOVERNMENT UNITS possible improvement
- development of area
4. Comparison of Alternatives
- cooperation between other LGUs
CLIENTS - Evaluate their advantages and disadvantages
- government units & private corporation - evaluation of each alternative including economic
- Filipino citizens analysis, multicriteria analysis, financial analysis
INTER-MODAL COMPETITION and fiscal analysis.
- competition between mode of transport 5. Consideration of Uncertainty
SUPPLIER AND RAILWAY INDUSTRIES - Manual Sensitivity – recalculating estimates
- availability of technologies to be applied given margin for key inputs
LEGISLATION - Probabilistic Approach – manual selection of error
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOM margins
- local availability of technologies to be applied 6. Selection of Preferred Alternative
INTERNAL EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 3. PRELIMINARY DESIGN
ORGANIZATION - the project budget, schedule and scope are set-up
- mandate or organization and detailed assessments of social and environmental
- capability of organization impacts and project risks are undertaken.
FINANCIAL RESOURCES - risk management
- revenue from fares, toll fees and freight services Identification – identify and describe all possible
- indirect revenues (advertisements, use of ROW, etc. risks
- non-repayable grants or subsidies Assessment – examine possible impacts using
INTRA-MODAL COMPETITION qualitative and quantitative methods
- private and public corporations (DoTr, PNR, MRT, LRTA, Mitigation – develop measures that reduce the
LRMC, bus contracting, etc.) risks
PERSONNEL Allocation – assign financial consequence of risk
- competency and skills of existing personnel Treatment – deal with retained risks
- hiring requirements for new personnel Monitoring – update the risk register
TECHNOLOGY - consider the following:
- obsolescence of equipment > Environmental, Health and Safety Impact
- warranty period > Social Impact
- COA guidelines > Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- identifies the potential impacts and risks
associated
4. DETAILED DESIGN
- the necessary permitting and approvals are obtained for
the project.
5. PROCUREMENT AND FINANCING
- project delivery method, contract pricing mechanism and
processes are implemented
- FUNDING SOURCES
Direct – mainly fare box revenues. For rails, it only
covers about 75% of O&M cost.
Indirect – non fare commercial revenue
(advertisement,
lease, ROW merchandise)
- FINANCING
Public – provided by government
Private – refers to loa, bond or equity investment
provided
by private entity
6. CONSTRUCTION
- infrastructure is built and supporting systems are installed.
- BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE
- manage all contracts for civil and
electromechanical works and rolling stock
- oversee construction of the urban rail system
- CONDUCT TESTING AND PRE-OPERATIONS
- test the system to ensure its in accordance with
design
- set up contingencies or warranties at start of
defect
liability period.
7. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
- begins when infrastructure is opened to revenue service