Course Module: Transportation Planning and Policies
Courses:
- Transportation Economics;
- Transportation Planning (required course);
- Transportation Project Planning and Evaluation;
- Introductory Transportation Network.
Transportation Economics
- Analyze traffic and transportation problem using economic theory
- Macroscopic: operation and management of transportation industry (e.g. supply and pricing problem)
- Microscopic: demand and characteristics of travelers (e.g. modal choice)
- Policy and strategy for transportation department
- Issues on urban development (e.g. green transportation, intelligent transportation, transportation safety etc.)
Transportation Planning (Required course)
- Discuss the relationship between town planning and traffic and transportation, as well as the function of transportation system
- Data collection: travel demand and characteristics survey
- Technical analysis: forecasting of trip demand and traffic volume, development of traffic models, scenario evaluation
Transportation Project Planning and Evaluation
- Public-private-partnership (PPP)
- Transportation project planning process
- Financial planning
- Evaluation of social and economic benefit
Introductory Transportation Network
- Transportation network problems: trip generation, demand matrix estimation, traffic assignment, network design (with traffic signal, arterial, road expansion etc.)
- Introduction to related model development in transportation network
- Problem formulation in mathematical model
Core ability
By the completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Analyze the characteristics of various transportation industry and their interrelationship
- Analyze the demand and characteristics of travelers in transportation system
- Engage in planning transportation projects
- Evaluate the performance of transportation planning scenarios
- Develop traffic and transportation models, analyze the characteristics of transportation network, and evaluate the performance of transportation network system
Job market
- Civil servants
- Transportation Planners or Engineers in consultancy companies
- Traffic and Transportation related industry (for traveler or freight transportation)
| Job title: | Traffic and transportation planner or engineer, Actuarial consultant, Research associate |
| Job nature: | Transportation planning, project proposal, project writing, project presentation, statistical analysis, scenario evaluation, marketing |
| Job title: | Town planners and developers, Architect, Traffic and transportation planner or engineer |
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