Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Transport Systems: Global Issues and Future Innovations
This course explored how the transport sector can develop infrastructures that meet the needs of a 21st century population.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Yue Huang
Lecturer in Transport Engineering, Institute for Transport Studies
University of Leeds
Dr Phill Wheat
Director of Student Education, Institute for Transport Studies
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe current challenges facing the transport sector and possible solutions.
- Summarise approaches to solving infrastructure problems.
- Explore design choices that inform the redevelopment of an existing major road junction.
- Explain the role that transport professionals have to play in shaping the future of transport.
- Debate the rising financial, environmental and health costs associated with transportation and who should pay for them.
- Explain how engineering technology is being used to address the challenges of rising demand for transport.
- Investigate ways to address road safety problems in low and middle income countries.
- Model alternatives to solve a complex urban transport problem.
Syllabus
- The current state of transport.
- Challenges facing the transport sector.
- The changing nature of society and how transport is adapting.
- Designing highway infrastructure.
- Careers in the transport sector.
- The cost of transportation – vehicle noise, emissions and the effects on public health.
- The cost of transportation – maintaining infrastructure, energy and climate change.
- How engineering and technology can address some of the challenges facing the transport sector.
- Designing the transportation of the future.
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Issued on 27th March 2023
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