The document outlines the course learning outcomes for a transportation engineering course focused on town planning, detailing various data and survey methods utilized in planning surveys. It discusses different types of surveys including town, regional, and national surveys, and highlights methods for physical, social, and economic data collection. Additionally, it describes surveying techniques and questionnaire types employed in collecting relevant information for effective town planning.

1. Transportation Engineering – II (Town Planning)
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Course Learning Outcomes:
• At the end of this session, the student will be able to explain
various data and survey methods employed in town planning
Surveys in Town planning

2. Prof. (Dr.) Sachin Kishor Patil
B.E. Civil, M.E. Civil Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. (IIT, Bombay)
❑ Professor & Head of Department
❑ Department of Civil Engineering
❑ AMGOI, Vathar, Kolhapur, MH, India.
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3. Surveys
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 Collection of info and data
 Geddes- “Survey before plan Principle”/Diagnosis before
treatment”
 Data as evidence
 Cause and need
 Inter relation of units
 Identification of Evils of town development
 Public opinion
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4. Survey types
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 Town/City Survey
 Regional Survey
 National Survey
 Civil Survey
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5. A. Town Survey
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 Survey done at much small scale/Community
 Physical Survey
 Social Survey
 Economic Survey
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6. A. Town Survey - a. Physical
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a) Physical Survey
1. Natural features like topography, physically difficult land, geology,
landscape, soil, Climate data,
2. Land use
3. Physical economic factors like agricultural value of the land, mineral
resources and water gathering lands, areas with public services,
transportation linkages
4. Conditions of buildings – Life and structural
5. Communication survey by
1. Highways
2. Traffic at junctions
3. Parking
4. Origin and Destination
5. Accident study
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7. A. Town Survey - b. Social
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b) Social survey
 Population
 Trends
 Characteristics
 Migration
 Demographics- Age,
Education, Variation
 Density
 Housing
 Classes
 Height
 Materials
 Rented/Owned
 Community facility
 Education
 Health
 Recreational
 Other amusements

8. A. Town Survey - C. Social
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b) Economic survey
 Occupational- Nature of job
 Cultivation/Agri.
 Trade
 Industry types
 Location
 Raw materials availability
 Workers count
 Survey of commerce
 Turn over
 Goods handled
 Transportation used
 Utility
 Water supply
 Drainage
 Electricity
 Telephone
 Street lighting

9. B. Regional Survey
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done over a region dealing with
 PHYSICAL FACTORS
 like topography. physically difficult land, geology, landscape etc.
 PHYSICAL ECONOMIC FACTORS
 like agricultural value of the land, mineral resources and water
gathering lands. areas with public services, transportation linkages
etc.
 SOCIAL ECONOMIC FACTORS
 like areas of influence of towns and villages. employment,
population changes etc
C. National Survey
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10. D. Civic –Socio-Economic
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Local level
 Physical features
 Communication
 Traffic
 Open spaces
 Housing
 Population
 Health
 Landscape
 Cultivation
 Amenities
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11. Surveying techniques
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 SELF SURVEYS - mailing questionnaires to the to be surveyed
persons
 INTERVIEWS - by asking questions to the people to be surveyed
 DIRECT INSPECTION - when the surveyor himself inspects the
situations concerned
 OBSERVERS PARTICIPATION - when the observer himself
participate in acquiring the data required
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12. Surveying Questionnaire
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 NOMINAL where there is no ordering, like asking of sex, age,
employment in any particular service etc.
 ORDINAL where there is a specific order of choices like asking of
priorities, housing conditions, climate etc.
 INTERVAL where an interval of time is given importance like time
taken to shift from Lower Income Group (LIG) housing to MIG housing,
time interval to change from two wheelers to four wheelers etc. this
provides an yardstick of measurements
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