Transport Planning: Policy and Governance

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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) Trends in Transport

5) UK Transport Policy

6) EU and World Transport Policy & Governance 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) Option selection, monitoring and evaluation for transport schemes

12) Regulation of transport systems

13) Ownership of transport systems

14) Transport funding structures and sources

15) Transport management principles and quality assurance

16) Transport-related health and safety legislation and guidance

Assessment strategy

Ongoing formative assessment opportunities will be offered through online self-completion ‘check your knowledge’ tests, available on Blackboard, and live interactive tests using ‘Vevox’ 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