C3: Integrated Policy, Planning and Control
Module Leader: Uwe Umbach
Uwe Umbach is an Academic Advisor at the Institute fur Eisenbahn- und Verkehrswesen (Railway engineering and transportation planning) of the Universität Stuttgart. His main subject areas are integrated transport planning, transportation economics, social and environmental impacts of transportation and aspects of privatisation in the transport sector.
Aim of the Module
To understand planning processes and integrated transport policy making in the European Union.
Contents
Political background to transportation planning and basic elements of transport policy
International 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 especially the influences of the EU on national transport policy.
To understand the process of transportation 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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