This course aims to give students their first taste of the complex issues in transport engineering by:

■ Introducing students to the complex interactions of people on the street scape and how poor design increases conflict and leads to people being excluded from the urban environment (particularly those with disabilities).

■ Showing how improvement to current engineering practice can significantly enhance the sustainability of transport construction processes and the subsequent ways people use that infrastructure.

■ Showing how compaction is done for earthwork design and how to reduce the carbon footprint of earthwork construction.

■ Showing how an inclusive transportation system can help improve people's mental and physical health and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions.

Two one-hour lectures per week and 4-6 tutorials in total.

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35% Street design project, ILOs 1-3. A piece of work the student will build up over the semester as they learn new skills and knowledge each week. Formative peer review workshop session at the half way point.

10% Practical Skills Assessment: Pavement Design and Earthworks, ILOs 6, 7. Assessment coursework to assess how well the students have learned the practical methods developed in the pavement design and earthworks section of the course

55% Exam ILOs, 1-9. Exam to test the knowledge of students relating to all ILOs in the course and to test their ability to follow the prescriptive design processes developed in the course.

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

This course aims to give students their first taste of the complex issues in transport engineering by:

■ Introducing students to the complex interactions of people on the street scape and how poor design increases conflict and leads to people being excluded from the urban environment (particularly those with disabilities).

■ Showing how improvement to current engineering practice can significantly enhance the sustainability of transport construction processes and the subsequent ways people use that infrastructure.

■ Showing how compaction is done for earthwork design and how to reduce the carbon footprint of earthwork construction.

■ Showing how an inclusive transportation system can help improve people's mental and physical health and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions.

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

■ appropriately apply the guidance from Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, Designing Streets or related local and national guidance;

■ describe the principles of designing for inclusive active travel;

■ describe how an inclusive transportation system can improve mental and physical health and reduce greenhouse emissions in our urban transportation;

■ create principles-based designs to re-allocated space for walking, cycling and wheeling in urban streets;

■ describe the properties of materials used in pavements and the tests used to measure these properties;

■ apply calculations on the geometric design of highways;

■ design the compaction scheme for an earthwork using up-to-date methodology;

■ describe the methods used to assess the condition of existing pavement;

■ construct a simple earthworks balance exercise and describe cost/environmental implications;

■ describe how to reduce the impact of earthwork construction on climate change.