Entry requirements

General entry requirements for university studies.

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

The course is given within the undergraduate program Urban Development and Planning.

Course contents

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.

The course includes:

• The historical development of the transport system and the role of the transport system in societal development with focus on urbanization and urban planning
• The transport planning process from national planning, regional planning and local planning for urban transports
• The perspective of transport in relation to the concept of mobility
• The perspective of transport planning in relation to urban mobility and sustainability

Learning outcomes

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

Learning activities

The course is organized around lectures, mandatory seminars, group work, individual work, and study visits.

Assessment

The assessment of the students is conducted by:

• Compulsory seminars (3 cr) (grading scale UG) (learning outcomes 1-5). Oral examination.
• Group work (3 cr) (grading scale UA) (learning outcomes 1-9). Written self-evaluation from each student will be required for individual examination.
• Individual essay (4 cr) (grading scale UA) (learning outcomes 6-9). Written examination.

Information on how the full course grade is determined will be provided at the start of the course.

Course literature

• Flyvbjerg, B. (latest edition). Rationality and Power, Democracy in Practice. The University of Chicago, Chicago.
• Schiller, P. & Kenworthy, J. (latest edition). An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation Policy, Planning, and Implementation. Routledge, London.
• Standley, J. & Hensher, D. A. (latest edition). A research Agenda for Transport Policy. Elgar Research Agenda, Cheltenham Glos.

Additional articles will be made available electronically.

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Interim rules

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

Additional information

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format.
The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text