O4: Intelligent Transport Systems
Module Leader: Janós Toth
The Module Leader for this module is Dr. Janós Tóth, who is an Associate Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and
Economics. His main subject area is in Transport Informatics.
Aim of the Module
To understand planning processes and integrated policy making in the European Union
Contents
Political background to transportation planning and basic elements of transport policy
The E.E.C. Treaty
Liberalisation of European transport markets
Harmonisation of terms of competition in transport markets
Trans-European infrastructure
Design of integrated transport networks
Demands on transportation networks
The needs and problems of integrated planning
Learning Outcomes
To understand the political background and the elements of transport policy and to identify the groups and persons
involved in transport policy.
To explain the connection between international transport policy and national transport policy and expecially the influences of the EU
national transport policy.
To understand the process of transport planning, to explain the feedback loops within this process and to show the connections
between transportation planning and town planning.
To describe the needs and problems of integrated planning and demonstrate these problems with the examples of Park and Ride
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