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CIVL3703: Transport Policy, Planning and Deployment (2018 - Semester 1)
| Unit: | CIVL3703: Transport Policy, Planning and Deployment (6 CP) |
| Mode: | Normal-Day |
| On Offer: | Yes |
| Level: | Senior |
| Faculty/School: | School of Civil Engineering |
| Unit Coordinator/s: |
Levinson, David
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| Session options: | Semester 1 |
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| Campus: | Camperdown/Darlington |
| Pre-Requisites: | None. |
| Brief Handbook Description: | This subject aims to provide an environment for students to learn essential facts and develop models and frameworks to understand the development of transport policy, the making of transport plans, and the deployment of transport technologies. The unit uses a mixture of traditional lectures, and interactive learning through case studies and role playing. Both the lectures and the cases allow the students to develop an inductive understanding of transportation. The unit will be successful if at the end, the student has developed a worldview on transportation (not necessarily the same as the instructor's), and has an appreciation for merits and demerits of various perspectives on transport issues. The course seeks an integrative approach for transport, and though the stories in lecture will be told mode by mode, there are a number of opportunities to see the relationships between modes, in their structure in function, and in the learning as one mode adopts successful (and unsuccessful) attributes of others. |
| Assumed Knowledge: | CIVL2700. |
| Tutor/s: | David Levinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Timetable: | CIVL3703 Timetable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| T&L Activities: | The classes follow the outline of the text `The Transportation Experience` by Garrison and Levinson and `The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport` by Levinson and Krizek. Case Studies will be interspersed. Student led term papers may be presented at the end of the course. |
Attributes listed here represent the key course goals (see Course Map tab) designated for this unit. The list below describes how these attributes are developed through practice in the unit. See Learning Outcomes and Assessment tabs for details of how these attributes are assessed.
| Attribute Development Method | Attribute Developed |
| Plan, design, and review safe and efficient operation of transport infrastructure and services to move people. | Design (Level 3) |
| Acquire analytical skills for an engineering design office including application and limitation of traffic and transport models. | Engineering/IT Specialisation (Level 3) |
| Apply traffic flow theory to the design and operation of transport infrastructure, e.g. ramp metering and traffic signal control | Maths/Science Methods and Tools (Level 3) |
| Develop ability to identify elements and approaches to analyze the transport infrastructure to interact within an engineering team. | Information Seeking (Level 4) |
| Contributing as an individual to multidisciplinary and multicultural teams to deliver traffic related projects | Communication (Level 3) |
For explanation of attributes and levels see Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018.
Learning outcomes are the key abilities and knowledge that will be assessed in this unit. They are listed according to the course goal supported by each. See Assessment Tab for details how each outcome is assessed.
Communication (Level 3)| Assessment Methods: |
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| Assessment Description: |
• Assignments (32%) o Games as Simulations - Compare outcome of transport game with historical system it reflects o Analyze the Historic Life-cycle of a Transport Technology o Network Design o Surface Transport Position Paper • Case Studies (18%) • Term Paper (25%) • Final Exam (25%) |
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Note: References are provided for guidance purposes only. Students are advised to consult these books in the university library. Purchase is not required.
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Note that the "Weeks" referred to in this Schedule are those of the official university semester calendar https://web.timetable.usyd.edu.au/calendar.jsp
| Week | Description |
| Week 1 |
Lecture/Tutorial: INTRODUCTION AND PART ONE – WAVE ONE: 1790–1851 1. Rivers of Steam 2. Design by Design: The Birth of the Railway 3. The Turnpike Era |
| Week 2 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART TWO – PHASE 1 OF THE LIFE-CYCLE 4. Inventing and Innovating |
| Week 3 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART THREE – WAVE TWO 1844–1896
5. Maritime Modes 6. Railroads Deployed 7. Good Roads 8. Transit 9. Telegraph |
| Week 4 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART FOUR – PHASE 2 OF THE LIFE-CYCLE
10. Magic Bullet |
| Week 5 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART FIVE – WAVE THREE 1890-1950
11. American Shipping 12. Taking Flight 13. Railroads Regulated 14. Bustitution 15. Public Roads 16. Urban Planning: Who Controls the Turf? 17. Telephone |
| Week 6 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART SIX – PHASE 3 OF THE LIFE-CYCLE
18. Aging |
| Week 7 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART SEVEN – WAVE FOUR: 1939-1991
19. Logistics 20. The Jet Age 21. Railroads Rationalized 22. Interstate 23. Recapitalization 24. Lord Kelvin’s Curse |
| Week 8 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART EIGHT – LIFE-CYCLE DYNAMICS
25. Lifecycle 26. Meta-cycles |
| Week 9 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART NINE – WAVE FIVE: MODERN TIMES
27. Energy and Environment 28. Higher-speed rail 29. Internet 30. Technology: Hard and Soft |
| Week 10 |
Lecture/Tutorial: THE END OF TRAFFIC AND THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORT • Preface: The Lost Joy of Automobility • Climbing Mount Auto: The Rise of Cars in the 20th Century • Less Traffic is a Good Thing • What Killed America’s Traffic? • Pace of Change • Transitioning Toward Electric Vehicles • Autonomous Autos • MaaS Transport • Transit • Up and Out: The Future of Travel Demand and Where We Live • Adapting the Built Environment • Reduce, Reuse, Bicycle • Accelerating the End of Traffic via Pricing • Redeeming Transport |
| Assessment Due: Case Study | |
| Week 11 |
Lecture/Tutorial: PART TEN – BEYOND THE LIFE-CYCLE
31. Policy 32. Speculations |
| Week 12 |
PART ELEVEN – AFTERWORDS: REFLECTIONS ON TRANSPORTATION EXPERIENCES
33. I-35W 34. Design of a Life 35. Commencement |
| Assessment Due: Term Paper | |
| Week 13 | Lecture/Tutorial: Term Paper Presentations |
| Exam Period | Assessment Due: Final Exam |
Course Relations
The following is a list of courses which have added this Unit to their structure.
Course Goals
This unit contributes to the achievement of the following course goals:
| Attribute | Practiced | Assessed |
| Communication (Level 3) | Yes | 18.2% |
| Information Seeking (Level 4) | Yes | 18.2% |
| Maths/Science Methods and Tools (Level 3) | Yes | 36.8% |
| Engineering/IT Specialisation (Level 3) | Yes | 16.8% |
| Design (Level 3) | Yes | 10% |
These goals are selected from Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 which defines overall goals for courses where this unit is primarily offered. See Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 for details of the attributes and levels to be developed in the course as a whole. Percentage figures alongside each course goal provide a rough indication of their relative weighting in assessment for this unit. Note that not all goals are necessarily part of assessment. Some may be more about practice activity. See Learning outcomes for details of what is assessed in relation to each goal and Assessment for details of how the outcome is assessed. See Attributes for details of practice provided for each goal.
