3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4021569ENR for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.
The Mobility Planning course makes students familiar with integrating traffic-related issues in spatial planning and urban design, as well as with the discipline of mobility planning.
The course is organized around five pillars: mobility policy, external effects, active travel modes and design of public space, public transport, and traffic research. Within this outline, various aspects of the practice of mobility planning are discussed, which includes infrastructure design, travel survey, traffic circulation, road safety, sustainable mobility, urban livability, parking policy, public transport, cycling, and (local) mobility planning. The majority of lectures will be delivered by guest lecturers who are experts within their specific section of the mobility planning realm.
A syllabus will be available. The syllabus consists of book chapters and scholarly articles. These complement the slides provided, all of which is the course’s subject matter.
• Students can correctly estimate the transport related requirements originating from a spatial plan or urban design project
• Students are familiar with the tools used in the field of traffic design and mobility planning
• Students are familiar with the policy framework and the relevant authorities dealing with mobility planning
• Students are familiar with the concept of sustainable mobility and can reflect critically upon it
• Students are able to estimate the external effects of transport, and can situate these within a larger social and urban context
• Students can critically read and interpret a design proposal for traffic infrastructure and are able to correctly estimate its consequences related to environmental impact and livability
• Students have insight in the structure and logics of transport networks
• Students have knowledge of the methods of current traffic surveys in mobility planning
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The evaluation consists of two parts:
1. A critical analysis on a self-selected case, for instance the redesign of a street, square or public space, a traffic circulation plan, a parking plan, the (re)development of traffic infrastructure… Hereto, the students make use of the content provided in the lectures. A necessary part of the analysis is a traffic survey, carried out by the students themselves. The results of this reflection are presented at the end of the lecture series, by means of a paper (approximately 5000 words) and an oral presentation during the exam week.
2. The writing of three ‘one page notes’, connected to the content of the lectures on active travel modes and design of public space, public transport and external effects. These one page notes are to be handed in two weeks after the respective lecture.
The final grade is composed based on the following division:
Paper: 50%
Oral presentation: 20%
One page note: 10% each
Partial marks for the one page notes, if the student obtains at least half of the score (for this part), are transferred to the second session. Students may not relinquish partial marks.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 1 (Bachelor via SCH of VRB) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 2 (Master indirect) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 3 (Bachelor of Master direct) (only offered in Dutch)