MABY5040 Advanced Railway Engineering Emneplan

Urban mobility refers to the combination of land use, transportation, and technology resulting in the movement of people, goods, and information in our cities. The goals of urban mobility are to create safe, efficient, and sustainable transport systems that meet the needs of all residents. This course will train students to apply the appropriate methods and metrics for understanding and evaluating urban mobility systems from a holistic perspective, emphasizing the larger social, physical, and environmental implications of transportation.

This course provides an overview of urban mobility, its history, key components and functions, and metrics. Existing land uses and transport systems are the result of decades (and centuries) of development, as such this course will also help students to understand the wide variation in form and function of transport systems, and the range of challenges across these systems. Additionally, new technologies, such as increasing levels of connectivity and the emergence of autonomous vehicles, are sure to play important roles in urban mobility, but the implications of these technologies are not yet clear. This course gives students the requisite background to understand the pros and cons of a range of new and emerging technologies in urban mobility.

Daniel Piatkowski

Lectures, readings, discussions, project-based learning

Digital lectures will be recorded, and the material will be made available to students on CANVAS.

Upon completing the course, the student should have the following outcomes:

Knowledge:

Upon successfully completion of the course, the student will achieve advanced knowledge about:

• the integration of land use and transportation planning
• theories of transportation, mode choice, and travel behavior
• multi-modal transportation planning
• planning for safe, efficient, equitable, and sustainable cities
• metrics for evaluating urban mobility
• new and emerging technologies in land use and transportation planning

Skills:

Upon successfully completion of the course, the student is capable of:

• making use of travel behavior models
• applying metrics to evaluate transportation policy and planning
• applying appropriate methods and software (e.g., statistics and GIS) to evaluate transportation systems and gaps
• translating theory to practice in urban mobility

General competence:

Upon successfully completion of the course, the student:

• has a broad overview of the current state of urban mobility, its challenges, and future trends
• is able to present academic results and evaluations both to specialists and to the general public

The assessment consists of three parts:

1. Project work - written report of up to 40 pages, which counts 40%
2. Project work - oral presentation, which counts 20% (duration 20 minutes)
3. Individual oral exam, which counts 40% (duration 20 minutes)

Project work in parts 1 and 2 is done in groups with a maximum of 3 students. Students may also choose to work individually.

All assessment parts must be awarded a pass grade (E or better) in order for the student to pass the course.

Assessment parts 1) can be appealed, parts 2) and 3) cannot be appealed.

All documents and devices must be approved by the teacher.

Grade scale A-F

Piotr Koziol

Graded scale A-F.

1) Two internal examiners for the assignments and the report

2) Two internal examiners for oral presentation

External examiners are used regularly.