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2019/20 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

TRAN3061 Travel Activity Analysis

10 creditsClass Size: 35

Module manager: David Milne
Email: D.s.milne@its.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2019/20

This module is approved as a discovery module

This module is approved as a skills discovery module

Module summary

This module is aimed at students who are interested in urban planning and who may be considering a planning related career when they graduate. It focuses on quantitative approaches to transport planning and asks students to explore these and the underlying theories and their roles in decision-making. For example, sociodemographic patterns and how they might impact implementation of transport initiatives is considered using, for example, GIS. There are a number of traditional lectures on specialist topics, but much of the work is carried out through interactive workshops and PC sessions. Students form groups and pool their skills to address a transport planning case study of north Leeds. Activities include providing experience of using traffic management modelling software (for example, SATURN) and generating visions of the future. By the end of the module, all students should have gained an improved understanding of transport planning processes in practice and should hopefully feel better equipped for the transport planning job market! Teaching takes place over the first semester and the module is assessed purely through coursework (ie there is no exam). For further information please contact Dave Milne (D.S.Milne@its.leeds.ac.uk).

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should have acquired:
- Experience of using a selection of analytical techniques for representing the demand for and impacts of travel in modern society
- Understanding of the theoretical concepts underpinning the analytical techniques
- Understanding of the transport visioning, planning and decision making context in which the analytical tecniques and theory are used in the real world
- An opportunity to apply the theories and analytical techniques covered in the context of a realistic study of travel activity; and
- Skills in group work, personal development and reporting consistent with the requirements of a professional environment

Learning outcomes
- Ability to understand and apply transport network modelling techniques (for example, SATURN)
- Understanding of the Transport Economics theory underpinning transport network modelling
- Understanding of other complementary analytical techniques (for example, GIS).

Skills outcomes
Transport Network Modelling (e.g., SATURN)


Syllabus

This module combines traditional lectures with a project-based approach, to provide a balanced learning environment for investigating techniques to analyse transport activity relevant to planning and decision making.

Material covered will include:
- Quantitative approaches for representing travel patterns used in planning and decision making
- Theoretical perspectives on understanding travel behaviour that underpin common transport planning approaches
- Visioning, planning and decision making procedures.

Lectures will be complemented by a series of seminars and practical classes, during which students will work individually and in groups towards a focused project. Assessment will involve one piece of work - a project report that is supported through lectures & practicals.

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Lectures61.006.00
seminars22.004.00
Practicals52.0010.00
Private study hours80.00
Total Contact hours20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)100.00

Private study

Background reading for lectures/workshops;
Preparation for seminars & practical classes;
Report & briefing note writing.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Assessed work carried out across the module. All students will be expected to contribute actively to seminars and practical classes held throughout the module.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Report4,000 Words100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 30/04/2019

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