Aim
The aim of the course is that the students will acquire an understanding for how various variables affect the effects of traffic within the areas of Accessibility, Level of service, Safety and Environment. The course should induce understanding for the complexity in that what is good for one basic aspect don’t necessarily need to be good for the other aspects, and that there is often need for a compromise between them. After fulfilling the course the students should have a good theoretical basis for further studies traffic engineering and planning

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• Have knowledge about the most important variables affecting traffic within the areas of Accessibility, Level of service, Safety and Environment

• Understand that not all relations between variables and effects are known

• Understand that not all relations between variables and effects are measurable

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• Be able to analyse a given problem from the viewpoint of the four basic aspects and identify potentially important variables affecting the effects of traffic in the given case

• Be able to scrutinise and analyse literature within the area of traffic engineering

Contents
The course consists of lectures, literature studies, PBL, seminars and assignments.

The course is divided into themes related to the four basic aspects of traffic. Within each theme there will be lectures and literature studies that are summed up in a short report. The review of the reports will partly be carried out by way of peer review, in addition to writing own reports each student is tasked with review other students’ reports, and partly by teacher review of selected reports.

Literature
Hydén, C. red. (2008) Trafiken i den hållbara staden, Studentlitteratur, Lund
On top of this there will be a list of relevant literature, from which most titles will be available either for download or at the study centre.
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