Transport Planning: Policy and Governance

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Regulation, ownership and funding structures for transport systems
• Recent trends in transport and the major drivers behind travel behaviour
• Current guidance on transport and land use planning, with particular reference to the UK.
• Characteristics of, and influences on, transport network development
• The transport policy-making process.
• The historical development of transport systems.
• The transport planning process.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically analyse the development of transport systems in a major city.
• Describe the transport policy process and key issues determining policy options.
• Discriminate and interpret between different policy options and their implications.
• Explain why transport planning is a necessary aspect of governance.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Time management.
• Working as part of a team to solve a problem.
• The use of creativity and innovation in problem solving.
• Reporting your work effectively.
• Learning, studying and researching independently.
• Collating, synthesising and prioritising information.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify the outcomes of transport planning and policy interventions in the field.
• Review a range of literature.
• Manage and organise time.
• Support arguments with appropriate source references.

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) Introduction to Transport Policy and the Planning Process

2) Historical Development of Transport Systems

3) Theory of Transport and Land Use Development

4) Transport Trends and Virtual Mobility

5) UK Transport Policy

6) EU and World Transport Policy & Government Structures

7) Local Authorities’ Role in Public Transport Systems

8) Field Trip

9) Transport and Land Use Planning in the UK

10) Development of Strategic, Master and Local Transport Plans

11) Regulation and Privatisation in Rail Transport

12) Regulation in the Bus Industry

13) Transport Funding Structures and Sources

14) Professional and ethical conduct in transport management

15) Interaction between industry, public bodies and communities in policy development

Assessment strategy

Ongoing formative assessment opportunities will be offered through online self-completion ‘check your knowledge’ tests, available on Blackboard, and classroom interactive tests using ‘Kahoot’ or a similar tool.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External