Transport Planning: Practice

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• The process of developing travel plans.
• Constraints on the transport planning process
• A wide range of current practical transport planning issues.
• How transport planners can engage with and meet the needs of transport users.
• A wide range of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ transport planning measures available to transport planners
• How the transport sector attempts to achieve sustainability
• Engagement with stakeholders and the media
• The public inquiry process in the UK, where there is a transport component.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Debate opposing sides of a transport planning scenario

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Contact time in the module will include the following sessions, with each session including a mix of different delivery modes as decided by individual lecturers in consultation with the module lead:

1)Transport Planning Measures: Overview and Constraints

2)Urban Design and Transport

3)Transport Users and User Engagement in Planning

4) Disabled Travellers, Equality and Discrimination

5)Pedestrians, Cyclists and the Manual for Streets

6) Travel Plans and Planning

7)Mock Public Inquiry

a.Introduction

b.Tutorial

c.Mock Inquiries

8)Stakeholder and Media Engagement and Community Involvement

9) Accessibility, Equality and Social Exclusion

10) Sustainable Mobility: Pathways and Narratives

Teaching and learning methods

a. lectures / seminars, many led by external speakers.

b.Series of debates about the transport sustainability of example development proposals.

c.Support tutorials for public inquiry coursework.

Assessment strategy

Comprehensive briefing provided for the Mock Public Inquiry and the open-book final assessment.

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 Information

Repeat type: Internal