Street Network Planning and Design - Professional course

Program Overview

This program focuses on designing and evaluating multi-modal streets and junctions, emphasizing user needs and creating healthy built environments. It covers street design principles, traffic flow theory, junction capacity analysis, and road safety interventions. Delivered through lectures, site visits, and workshops, the program prepares graduates for careers in transport planning, engineering, and design.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The course delves into road safety and risk management, along with concepts of movement and place, traffic flow theory, and junction capacity analysis, incorporating industry-standard junction modeling techniques.

Outline:

Content:

• Evaluating and designing multi-modal networks, streets, and junctions with user needs in mind.
• Analyzing and comparing the performance and capacity of priority, roundabout, and signal-controlled junctions against design criteria.
• Explaining and applying traffic flow theory.
• Evaluating road safety issues and proposing road safety interventions.

Learning and Teaching:

The course is delivered through a blend of lectures, site visits, design workshops, and computer labs. Classes introduce street design principles and analytical techniques, while workshops allow students to apply these principles to real-world projects. Computer labs introduce junction modeling techniques.

Study Time:

The program involves 6 hours of direct contact time every other week for one semester, with an overall expected workload of 150 hours for each 15-credit module.

Assessment:

The assessment consists of two portfolios where students present the outcomes from a street and junction problem evaluation and design task.

Teaching:

The program is led by experienced instructors with expertise in street and junction design, traffic engineering, and transport planning.

Careers:

Graduates of this program can pursue careers in various fields related to transport planning, engineering, and design. This includes roles in government agencies, consultancies, and private companies involved in planning and designing transportation infrastructure.