BYVE3401 Land Use and Transport Planning Course description

The course provides an introduction to land use and transport planning from a sustainability perspective. Students are given an introduction to the Norwegian planning system, as well as to the history, theories and methods of land use planning. The framework for land use planning is explained in relation to the overriding guidelines (legislation, standards etc.), but also in relation to the desired qualities (value basis) to be incorporated in the planning. The transport system has consequences for all parts of society and affects the environment and people in the form of air quality, noise, climate change and traffic accidents. Land use, the transport network, transport committees, local climate, road, water, sewage and storm water infrastructure are strongly linked to sustainable development, and the course provides an overview of how they are related and describes strategies for sustainability. Compulsory participation in laboratory exercises (NovaPoint Areal or Focus Arealplanlegging and NovaPoint VA) as well as inspections and study trips.

For those who cannot participate in the organized study trips and examinations, it will be possible to conduct individual study trips and examinations in the Oslo area, by agreement with the course coordinator.

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student is familiar with:

• legislation, regulations, central and local government planning guidelines, guides and local government standards for drawing up plans and case processing of land-use plans
• planning and public participation processes, case processing of plans and the use of objections
• selected parts of the history of land use planning and planning theories
• environmental and planning ethics
• the relationship between urban structure and transport. The student is capable of explaining sustainable land use and transport solutions.

Skills

The student:

• is capable of preparing a zoning plan with pertaining zoning regulations and plan descriptions in accordance with the Ministry of the Environment's guidelines for zoning plans, and overriding guidelines
• is familiar with the principles for drawing up zoning plans using suitable software (NovaPoint Areal, Focus Arealplanlegging or similar) and pertaining technical plans for roads and water and sewage (plan drawings, longitudinal and cross-section drawings), and is capable of conducting impact assessments for area zoning plans and risk and vulnerability assessments for detailed zoning plans
• is capable of carrying out basic traffic technical calculations and analyses

General competence

The student is capable of:

• organising, planning and carrying out interdisciplinary studies, analyses and reports based on scientific principles, including being able to use a reference handling system (EndNote, RefMan or similar)
• describing political processes and decision-making processes for municipal land-use plans
• describing the principles for sustainable land use and transport development
• using interviews and literature studies as methods for producing surveys and reports

• lectures
• self-study and group work (Planning and Building Act)
• laboratory - preparation of plans and visualisation using suitable software (NovaPoint Areal, Focus Arealplanlegging or similar and NovaPoint Veg and NovaPoint VA)
• analyses of road junctions using SIDRA Intersection may also be required
• compulsory portfolio submission (individual and group assignments)
• compulsory field inspection of residential areas (1 day)
• compulsory joint teaching and project work on universal design, together with students from the Occupational Therapy programme at HiOA (4 whole days, continuous)
• participation in a 3-day study trip to Copenhagen or Malmö to study sustainable urban development, or, on application, a corresponding inspection in Oslo
• participation in laboratory teaching for modelling and analyses using GIS (the ATP model) may be required

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit the exam:

• participation in all compulsory inspections (up to 4 days)
• participation in a joint universal design programme in cooperation with the Occupational Therapy programme at HiOA (4 days)
• participation in laboratory training in the use of software (Fokus Areal or NovaPoint Areal, NovaPoint VA, and, if relevant. GIS) (10 hours)

1) Individual oral exam (60%)

2) Portfolio assessment subject to the following requirements (40%)

Four written assignments:

Part 1: Zoning plan

Part 2: Reports from study trips, inspections and collaborative weeks with the occupational therapy study on universal design

Part 3: Practical exercises in transport planning

Part 4: Individual in-depth report

A pass is required in all parts of the portfolio exam in order to be able to sit the exam in the subject.

Both parts of the exam must be awarded pass in order for the student to pass the course.

Exam part 1) The result of the exam cannot be appealed.

Exam part 2) The result of the exam can be appealed.

1) None.

2) All.

Pass/fail.

Del 1) Two internal eximiner.

Del 2) One internal examiner.

External examiners are used regularly.