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This course delivers state-of-the-art design principles and analytical skills to create inclusive, environmental friendly and sustainable transport networks in the urban environment. Students will learn how to plan and assess transport policies and design transport infrastructure using risk assessment tools and Eurocodes. Students will also undergo a detailed design coursework of traffic analysis in Glasgow and deciding decongestion measures for highway traffic networks by designing a flyover bridge on the basis of sustainability (e.g. investment capital, structural system, optimising geometry of structural members, selecting eco-friendly materials, optimising carbon emissions, pollution and noise minimising due to traffic, adaptation to climate change and future demands, Life Cycle Analysis).

1 hour lecture per week: The lecture session will be used to set out basic information for students about the course, assessments, and to introduce the subject material with quick exercises for students to complete in class.

2 hour active workshop per week: The workshop will start with exercises which introduce the skills/procedures to the students, which will then lead on in the workshop to the students using these skills/procedure for analysis and design of transport systems

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Integrated Transport Systems Project - InTraS (40% Written Report, 10% Oral Presentation)

Students undertake a group-based multidisciplinary project addressing a complex transport systems challenge. The project integrates traffic planning, data analytics, probabilistic modelling, multi-modal transport design and conceptual bridge engineering.

Students will analyse existing and future traffic conditions and develop transport solutions for residential and industrial areas, considering walking, cycling, public transport and road traffic. Traffic demand scenarios will be developed using quantitative and probabilistic methods and assessed through appropriate traffic simulation software.

The analysis will inform the conceptual design and preliminary modelling of a flyover bridge connecting key areas and the highway/motorway network, including determination of traffic loads, lane configuration and application of relevant Eurocode load models.

The proposed solution will be evaluated in terms of congestion reduction, accessibility, user needs, sustainability and whole-life performance, including structural system and material selection, environmental impacts, noise and traffic pollution, capital investment and Life-Cycle Assessment.

Students will communicate their findings through a written technical report and group oral presentation. Consultancy meetings will support the development and review of the project.

Written Examination- 50%

The examination will assess the technical knowledge, analytical methods and engineering principles underpinning the project, including traffic analysis, probability and data analytics, multi-modal transport planning, traffic demand modelling, bridge loading and Eurocode application, bridge design principles and transport simulation.

This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to assess and plan transport networks in built up areas in reflection of the latest agendas. The course has a focus on ensuring those networks are designed to be inclusive, sustainable and proactive (rather than reactive) to all those needing or choosing to travel within built up areas.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ plan and assess traffic schemes and congested areas;

■ perform data analytics and thereby quantify probability distributions;

■ design and assess multi-modal transport systems (walking, cycling, public transport and driving) for different user groups towards sustainable, inclusive, and healthy transport;

■ plan connection between industrial zones, residential areas and highways/motorways with a bridge structure (flyover);

■ calculate traffic loads according to predicted traffic demands and the Eurocodes models;

■ calculate lanes and assign load models in a flyover bridge, use simulation software;

■ design a flyover bridge in order to minimise congestion at junctions;

■ design a bridge with respect to sustainability: selection of eco-friendly materials, select structural system, select optimised layout, optimised invasion to environment, reduce noise and traffic pollution, develop solution in respect to investment capital and future life-cycle (Life-Cycle Assessment);

■ use software to simulate road traffic scenarios for existing and future demands.