General entry requirements
No main field.
The course is given within the undergraduate program Urban Development and Planning.
The aim of the course is to provide an introduction to the role of transport and different forms of mobility in social planning. The students are introduced to transport planning at supranational, national, regional and local level. The course highlights the political processes, governance and critical perspectives in urban transport planning and its relation to urban mobility and sustainability.
Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. understand the role of transports for societal development, their societal benefits and how these are described and analyzed
2. understand the governance of the transport planning process at supranational, national, regional and local level and its relation to the political objectives for transport planning
3. understand the difference between transport planning and planning for sustainable mobility
Skills and competence
At the end of the course, the student should be able to have the ability to:
4. describe and analyze the role of the transport’s system in relation to regional and societal development
5. identify central stakeholders and planning steps in the transport planning process on national, regional and local level
6. identify and investigate transport related issues in relation to mobility issues
7. critically reflect on a transport planning problem
Evaluation ability and approach
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
8. discuss the role of the transport’s system for societal development independently using relevant course literature
9. evaluate transport planning strategies and mobility plans from the perspective of sustainability using relevant literature
The course is organized around lectures, mandatory seminars, group work, individual work, and study visits.
The assessment of the students is conducted by:
- Compulsory seminars (3 cr) (learning outcomes 1-5) (grading scale UG). Oral examination.
- Group work (3 cr) (learning outcomes 1-9) (grading scale AU). Written self-evaluation from each student will be required for individual examination.
- Individual essay (4 cr) (learning outcomes 6-9) (grading scale AU). Written examination
Information on how the full course grade is determined will be provided at the start of the course.
- Hickman, R., Lira, B. M., Givoni, M. & Geurs, K. (2019) (Eds). A companion to Transport, Space and Equity, NECTAR Series on Transportation and Communcation Network Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119825
- Standley, J. & Hensher, D. A. (2019). A research Agenda for Transport Policy, Elgar Research Agenda, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788970204
Additional articles will be made available electronically.
The University provides students participating in or upon completion of a course with the opportunity to relay their experiences of and opinions on the course through a course evaluation which is administered by the University. The University compiles and summarizes the course evaluations and informs students of the results and any decisions relating to measures made on the basis of the course evaluations. Results are made available to students (HF 1:14)
If a course is no longer offered or has undergone major changes, students are offered two re-take sessions based on the syllabus in force at registration during a period of one year from the date of the implementation of the changes.
Language of instruction: English
This syllabus is a translation from Swedish.