Valid for: 2012/13
Decided by: Education Board 3
Date of Decision: 2012-04-04
Compulsory for: IBYV2
Elective for: V4-tv
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish
The aim of the course is to give the course participants more thorough and applicable knowledge about traffic and its effect on the environment, traffic safety, accessibility and level of service. Participants will be provided with tools to estimate and analyze the effects of traffic and will have the opportunity to apply these on a real case in existing traffic environment. After completing the course, participants will be familiar with different measures on an overall and local level as well as their expected effects. Participants will gain a system-view about concurrent respectively conflicting interests in the work towards sustainable transport.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Have the ability to define required data in order to estimate
the effects of traffic in a traffic environment and to accomplish
the data collection
Have the ability to use different software for calculating the
effects of traffic and to critically judge the reliability
Write reports with correct citations based on exercises and
application on a real case in existing traffic environment and
associated analyses
Discuss and orally present the results of the own project
report
Gain a system view regarding traffic effects on different levels
and have the ability to discourse about how measures regarding
improving level of service, accessibility, security, traffic
safety, traffic noise and air-pollution can be concurrent or in
conflict with each other
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
Finding relevant information for further studies and application of the course content in their professional role as an engineer
The course is based on five themes: Accessibility, Level of service, Safety, Environment and Aggregation of all qualities for all types of road users. Each theme lasts for 1-2 weeks and includes lectures, exercises, data computation, field studies and application of theme elements on the own project. The project is a piece of existing traffic environment. Some topics are closed by a longer seminar where findings are discussed. During the project students are provided with continuous written feedback and at the end of the course the project is presented in a written project report (consisting of individual and group common parts) and presented orally.
Grading scale: TH
Assessment: For a passing grade: approved exercises, approved project work, approved oral presentation and presence at the obligatory parts are needed. The grade is awarded on the basis of the project work report consisting of both individual and group contributions. Assessment is carried out with the teaching goals as a basis.
Required prior knowledge: VTTF05 Traffic Engineering Theory.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course overlaps following course/s: VTT141
Course coordinator: Åse Svensson, Ase.Svensson@tft.lth.se
Course coordinator: Zsuzsanna Toth-Szabo, Zsuzsanna.Toth-Szabo@tft.lth.se
Course homepage: http://www.tft.lth.se
Further information: The course is a continuation of VTTF05 where the basic theoretical knowledge is achieved. The course is offered in Lund.