Transport Planning: Practice

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The process of developing travel plans.
• A wide range of current practical transport planning issues.
• How transport planners can engage with and meet the needs of transport users.
• The relationship between mobility, accessibility, equity and transport-related exclusion.
• The public inquiry process in the UK, where there is a transport component.
• Engagement with stakeholders and the media
• How the transport sector attempts to achieve sustainability
• The characteristics of and planning requirements for different passenger transport modes.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicating, questioning and effectively evaluating alternative approaches and solutions
• Reporting your work effectively.
• Time management
• Learning, studying and researching independently.
• Collating, synthesising and prioritising information.
• The use of creativity and innovation in problem solving

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Discuss the impacts of transport planning schemes on a range of user groups.
• Describe transport planning practice through a broad range of examples
• Critique the case presented by others
• Generate and argue a case for or against a development proposal.
• Identify information requirements and sources for scheme design and evaluation.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Debate opposing sides of a transport planning scenario

The module syllabus includes the following topics, with each session including a mix of different delivery modes as decided by individual lecturers in consultation with the module lead:

Planning for Mechanised Transport Modes

Planning for Pedestrians and Cyclists

Urban Design and Transport

Transport Users and Behavioural Change

Disabled Travellers, Equality and Discrimination

Transport Assessments and Travel Plans

Mock Public Inquiry

Stakeholders and Stakeholder Engagement

Accessibility, Equality and Social Exclusion

Planning for an Automated Transport Future

Sustainable Transport and Mobility

Transport and Public Health

a. Lectures / seminars, some led by external speakers.

b.Mock public inquiry - series of debates about the transport sustainability of example development proposals.

c.Support tutorials for public inquiry coursework and for final assessment preparation.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.