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Unit Summary
Unit aim
Critically assesses the role of transportation in sustainable development. The complex relations between different transport alternatives and key aspects of society, economy and environment are examined. Transformative possibilities towards more sustainable transport futures are identified and critically assessed.
Unit content
Topic 1: Exploring transport and sustainable development
Topic 2: Transport and environment
Topic 3: Transport and economy
Topic 4: Transport and society
Topic 5: Transport technologies, planning and policy
Topic 6: Opportunities for sustainable transformations
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | conceptualise transportation through a sustainability lens |
| 2 | critique the relationships between existing mobility paradigms and the economy, society and environment |
| 3 | plan for a more sustainable mobility future |
| 4 | appraise the barriers to and facilitators of change in transport systems. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- conceptualise transportation through a sustainability lens
- critique the relationships between existing mobility paradigms and the economy, society and environment
- plan for a more sustainable mobility future
- appraise the barriers to and facilitators of change in transport systems.