Transport Planning: Practice

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critique the case presented by others
• Identify information requirements and sources for scheme design and evaluation.
• 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.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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)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