2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

FOEV5005M City Systems: Mobility

15 creditsClass Size: 40

Module manager: Caroline Mullen
Email: c.a.mullen@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Jan to 30 Jun View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

Mobility systems are vital for economic, social and civic life, and strongly influence the quality and safety of the natural and built environment. This module provides grounding f to analyse mobility systems, through lectures and workshops on implications of mobility for sustainability; tools for assessing mobility systems and transport measures and critical reflection of assumptions underpinning different tools; technical and participatory processes involved in planning pathways to sustainable mobility systems.

Objectives

This module equips students with knowledge and analytical skills needed to critically engage with debates and practice on assessing and planning urban mobility systems. The module will provide students with: Understanding of the social, economic and environmental functions and impacts of mobility, and their distribution across the populations. Ability to critically assess mobility systems and their relationships with other city systems. Understanding of how to develop pathways to a mobility system which is environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.

Learning outcomes
1. understand the current mobility system and how it is created through policy, politics, behaviour, infrastructure and technology;
2. identify relations between the mobility system and social, economic and environmental sustainability
3. understand and critically assess public and stakeholder participation in mobility planning;
4. critically evaluate processes of selecting transport measures;
5. to steer development of visions and pathways to future mobility within sustainable cities

Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
1. Integrated problem solving: Uses analytical and critical thinking to solve real world problem, utilising quality information/evidence (Academic and work ready)
2. Sustainability related system thinking: recognises and understands relationships; analyses complex systems (environmental, economic and social systems and interdependencies across these)
3. Academic communication skills: Presents information/evidence gathered effectively & with accurate referencing
4. Understand roles of actors and organisations involved in mobility systems, and critically compare positions of those actors and understand collaborative actions between actors (academic and work ready)

Syllabus

Influence and impacts of mobility systems for people and place;
• Technologies and infrastructure;
• Politics, policy and actors influencing mobility systems (transport policies; political contexts and contestation; governmental, public, private, community actors).
• Regulations and cultures of mobility;
• Links between mobility and other city systems;
• Epistemology of assessment methods
• Forecasting and visioning in mobility planning
• Transferability of mobility measures

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Supervision	2	2.00	4.00
Fieldwork	1	5.00	5.00
Lecture	7	2.00	14.00
Seminar	1	3.00	3.00
Seminar	1	5.00	5.00
Seminar	2	2.00	4.00
Private study hours			115.00
Total Contact hours			35.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

Private study will be undertaken as part of the student’s problem based learning. It will be guided around a specific problem, set by the module leader and contribute to the overall learning outcomes of the module.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will receive formative feedback from their group work, which will directly inform their summative coursework due in later in the module. This will take the form of both oral feedback at the end of the presentations, written feedback per group, and written/oral feedback to the cohort as a whole.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Coursework	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Resit will be an individual essay.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 23/05/2024 11:53:30

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