PEP40210 Transportation Planning

Academic Year 2017/2018

This module focuses on the relationship between transport and land use with particular reference to urban areas and their commuter hinterlands. The module is divided into 5 sections: the first provides an overview of the course and introduces key concepts and ideas related to transportation planning; the second will focus on transport’s environmental impacts both at a national and international level. It will go onto consider key issues relating to sustainable transport; the third section will examine recent trends in transport and the development of current transport policy in Ireland and around the world. It will also focus on key issues for Ireland’s transport planners including both school transport and cross border travel; section four will investigate urban spatial organisation and transportation; the final section will cover the Urban Transportation Planning Process and transport models. Here, emphasis is placed on the four-stage modelling process widely used in contemporary transportation planning studies.
N.B. Throughout the module students are expected to supplement lectures by reading articles/book chapters which will be provided prior to class.