Transport Planning: Practice

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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

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)Planning for Mechanised Transport Modes

2)Urban Design and Transport

a. Concepts

b. Applications

3)Transport Users and Behavioural Change

4) Disabled Travellers, Equality and Discrimination

5)Planning for Pedestrians and Cyclists

6) Transport Assessments and Travel Plans

7)Mock Public Inquiry

a.Introduction

b.Tutorial

c.Mock Inquiries

8)Stakeholders and Stakeholder Engagement

a. Background and principles

b. Methods and examples

9) Accessibility, Equality and Social Exclusion

10) Sustainable Transport and Mobility

11) Transport and Public Health

Teaching and learning methods

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.

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