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Traffic and Transport Planning (Spring 2010)

Course code : BVTR-T2-U1
ECTS Credits : 10 Status : Optional
Revised : 23/03 2009 Written : 18/04 2005
Placement : 6. 7. semester Hours per week : 18
Length : 1 semester Teaching Language : English if English students are present

Objective : The student will acquire knowledge and understanding of methods, and skills in practical solutions of traffic and transport planning problems

The student who has fully achieved the objectives of the course will at the final examination, be able to:
• identify and analyse transport problems
• define and program transport improvement projects
• apply the profession’s methods and tools in problem solutions
• assess the consequenses of own and others’ solutions
• explain the group’s co-operation

Principal Content : - Methods and tools in traffic planning
- Project management
- Road safety
- Speed
- Planning and design of roads and paths
- Bus transport
- Walking and Cycling
- Assessment of environmental, road safety and socio-economic impact.
Teaching method : Lectures to by national and international professionals.
Course project, to be solved in a group of 2 - 3 students. Selected problems to be dscribed, analysed and solved, and solutions impact to be asessed.
- Exercises
- Excursions
Required prequisites : The student must have passed all Theme Courses
Recommended prerequisites : -
Relations : -
Type of examination : Oral examination based on a project
External examiner : External
Marking : 7 step scale
Remarks : The assessment is based on the course project carried out during the course, and a presentation and discussion about the project, related to the professional subjects of the course
Teaching material : Logical Framework Analyse. Notat. Dan-Educ as, udateret.
Logical Framework Approach. AusGUIDElines 3.3. Australian Govenment AusAID, 2005.
Logical Framework Approach - et godt værktøj i Ghana. Per Bastholm Mathiasen, Carl Bro as. Dansk Vejtidsskrift 10-2003.
Kari Örtengren: The logical Framework Approach. A summary of the theory behind the LFA method. SIDA, Stockholm 2003.
Trafikplan 2003. Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd, maj 2000.
Manual for Samfundsøkonomisk Analyse. Powerpoint, Mathias Sdun, Cowi as 2005.
Nøgletalskatalog – til brug for samfundsøkonomiske analyser på transportområdet, Transport- og Energiministeriet, December 2004, revideret juni 2006.
VVM og veje - lovgrundlag, Birgitte Henriksen, Vejdirektoratet 2000.
VVM og veje - procedure, Birgitte Henriksen, Vejdirektoratet 2000.
VVM og veje - Proces og metode, Birger Munch, Vejdirektoratet 1999.
Publikationer om samfundsøkonomisk analyse, Trafikministeriet, 2002-2005:
- Anvendelse af samfundsøkonomisk analyse
- Brug af samfundsøkonomiske metoder i udvalgte lande, oktober 2002
- Forstudie til samfundsøkonomiske tidsværdier - faglig rapport, juni 2003
- Samfundsøkonomisk konsekvensvurdering af en fast forbindelse over Femern Bælt, april 2004
- Casestudier - illustration af fremgangsmåden ved en samfundsøkonomisk analyse, april 2004
Bicycle Account and Benchmarking London 05. Powerpoint. Niels Jensen, Vej & Park, Københavns Kommune 2005.
Christianshavnruten. Powerpoint. Niels Jensen, Vej & Park, Københavns Kommune 2005.
Green Cycle Routes in Copenhagen. Niels Jensen and Lotte Bech, Planning Office, Roads & Parks Dep. 2005.
Hastighedsplanlægning. Powerpoints. Lárus Ágústsson, Vejdirektoratet 2005.

Results from national and international research and development will be used and is partly integrated in the literature already listed.

Responsible teacher : Solbritt Christiansen , solb@dtu.dk