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Traffic Infrastructure, Safety and Planning, 6 ECTS credits.
/Trafikinfrastruktur, säkerhet och planering/
For:
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SL
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 64
Rec. self-study hours: 96
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Area of Education: Social Sciences
Main field of studies: Logistics
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): G1
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Aim:
The course aims at presenting basic knowledge on the infrastructure of the traffic system, its constitution and functionalities, safety and about planning of infrastructure. The course is focused on road traffic and transportation of persons. After the course a student shall
- be able to describe the different steps in the planning process for a public state roads.
- have knowledge on the conditions and methods used for planning public transport and pedestrian and bicycle traffic
- have knowledge of basic definitions and approaches used in road traffic planning
- be able to evaluate a spatial plan based on given planning requirements and forecasts
- be able to describe characteristics, functionalities and limitations of the major types of models used for traffic planning.
- understand a sustainable transporation system
- have basics knowledge of traffic safety
- understand the implementation and safety impact from road design
- apply traffic risk assessment analysis in a case study
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Community Planning
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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Supplementary courses:
Planning of public transport and railway traffic
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Organisation:
The course contains a number of lectures, where several guest lectures are taking part. An important part of the course consists of three project tasks, which party are to be solved by use of commercial software.
The course runs over the entire spring semester.
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Course contents:
Introduction to urban and traffic planning. Traffic engineering issues. Traffic safety. Traffic calming. Traffic risk assessment analysis. Evaluation of traffic systems. Traffic forecasts. Sustainable transport systems.
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Course literature:
Hydén, C. (ed.) Trafiken i den hållbara staden, Studentlitteratur, latest edition.
Complementary materials is published on the learning platform.
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Examination: |
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Hand-in assignmnets
Project assignments
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3 ECTS
3 ECTS
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Course language is Swedish/English.
Department offering the course: ITN.
Director of Studies: Erik Bergfeldt
Examiner: Ghazwan Al-Haji
Link to the course homepage at the department
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