| TDDB95 | GIS for Transport Applications, 7,5 ECTS credits. /GIS for Transport Applications/ |
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| Aim: * The student must be able to discuss the possibilities and problems in introduction of GIS * Have basic knowledge about different types of Data Capture in GIS * Have basic knowledge about digital databases of relevance for GIS with focus on quality aspects. * Have basic knowledge about relational and hybrid databases * Be able to handle both vector and raster GIS * By practical exercises demonstrate how to do basic analyses in GIS * Be able to communicate with maps and other reports in GIS * Demonstrate achieved knowledge through a small written work |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Course contents: The intention with this course is to give an introduction to how Geographical Information Systems (GIS) can be used for applications of relevance for transports and related activities. Policy making, strategic and day to day planning of transports as well as businesses and service planning is depending on, among other things, knowledge about demand and supply. Further the transportation of goods, energy or people have to be arranged in a way that fulfil economical, environmental and ethical standards. The need for transports follow economic development, state of the market and trends and changes in consumer preferences. To be able to estimate the need and forms for different types of transports in the far and near future, knowledge about both the landscape and the natural, technical and social systems within this concept. To be able to take responsibility for the environmental consequences of different transport options it must be possible to calculate where emissions will occur, when and with what substances. As to minimise damages knowledge about population, cultural as well as natural environment and resources ad drinking water must be able to monitor together with estimates for emissions. All those properties have a spatial location or extension in the geographical time-space. GIS provides a tool that combine abilities to describe and map spatial properties in a common computer environment. Most GIS tools today provide the ability to combine different types of data that is needed to fulfil extended goals in transport planning as environmental analysis. GIS can also handle road and other network information in a structure that is suitable for optimisation of routs or giving solutions to the " the travelling salesman " problem. It is also possible to add information about the position and properties of every vehicle in a transport fleet in real time for fleet management. The topics needed to address as to understand the possibilities and problems in implementing GIS for transport applications are as follows: * Data capture in GIS * Sensor information as GPS * Data structures in spatial data as well as tabular data * Data merging * Analyse methods in GIS * Possibilities and problems in visualising data as maps * Organisational and economic factors when introducing GIS/IT |
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| Course literature: * Bernhardsen T, Geographic Information System, Norwegian Mapping Authority â?" Viak IF, Arendal Norway, 1992, ISBN 82-991928-3-8. * Longley, P & Clarke, G, GIS for Business and Service Planning, GeoInformation International/John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 1995, ISBN 1-899761-07-1. * GIS excersises I ArcView 3.1 Compendium from Linus & Linnea * GIS excersises II Network/Spatial Analysis Compendium from Linus & Linnea * Ref: Laurini R & Thompson D, Fundamentals of Spatial Information System, Academic Press, The APIC Series, 1992, ISBN 0-12-438380-7. |
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Course language is English. Department offering the course: IDA. Director of Studies: Jamal Maleki Examiner: Åke Sivertun Link to the course homepage at the department Course Syllabus in Swedish |
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