Transport Planning: Practice

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• 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
• The public inquiry process in the UK, where there is a transport component.
• Constraints on the transport planning process
• Engagement with stakeholders and the media
• A wide range of current practical transport planning issues.
• How the transport sector attempts to achieve sustainability
• The process of developing travel plans.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Debate opposing sides of a transport planning scenario

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