Transport Planning and Urban Mobility 24-25^th Feb 2012

This course is designed to provide an introduction and understanding of the Transport Planning field covering the history of transport, political and policy issues, evaluation and choice of schemes as well as the legislative and management authority background. There will be scope during this course to compare other country’s approaches to the subject. The course lecturers and facilitators include Dr Stephen Joseph OBE of Campaign for Better Transport, Dr Jacqui Wilkinson who has been a senior civil servant in the Department of Transport and John Elliott who has had Transport responsibilities in a variety of urban areas including Central London.

Transport Data Collection and Analysis  20^th-21^st April 2012

This course describes why we need data on transport to quantify any transport problem and how any collected data can be checked and used in the analysis of what is really happening and also as the basis for the design of possible measures.  It will cover techniques of data collection for both individual/personal travel data as well as numbers of ‘vehicles’ and their movements.  It will also cover presentation of results including GIS analysis.  It will be very much practically based providing hands on experience. The lecturers will include Joanna Elvy and Scott Copsey from the University and John Elliott a visiting lecturer with a lifetime of experience of collecting and using data for different transport projects.