BYVE3401 Land Use and Transport Planning Course description

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam: 

• A minimum of 90 percent attendance at compulsory teaching activities
• Presentation of a project assignment in groups of 4-5 students

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.
• 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

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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 laboratory training in the use of software (Fokus Areal or NovaPoint Areal, NovaPoint VA, and, if relevant. GIS) (10 hours)

All exams are assessed by an internal and an external examiner.

None.

Pass/fail.

Del 1) Two internal eximiner.

Del 2) One internal examiner.

External examiners are used regularly.

Overlapp

Emnet er ekvivalent (overlapper 10 studiepoeng) med BYTS3400 Areal- og transportplanlegging.

Ved praktisering av 3-gangers regelen for oppmelding til eksamen teller forsøk brukt i ekvivalente emner.