ENN479 Public Transport Capacity and Quality
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| Unit code: | ENN479 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | EGB272 or Admission to (EN55 OR EN51 OR EN71 OR EN75) |
| Antirequisite(s): | EGB479 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,044 |
| International unit fee | $5,652 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | ENN479 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EGB272 or Admission to (EN55 OR EN51 OR EN71 OR EN75) |
| Anti-requisite: | EGB479 |
| Coordinator: | Jonathan Bunker | j.bunker@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Transport engineers undertake investigations and assessments as part of transit infrastructure planning, design and management activities that meet stakeholders' needs. This unit introduces you to knowledge and skills bases that are used in these activities. You will learn about transit applications in the Australian context, infrastructure planning, capacity analysis, quality of service analysis, advanced control and intelligent transport systems, and project review and evaluation. You will continue to learn about ethics, cultural awareness, sustainable development practices and how they underpin your professional work. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems and EGB272 Traffic and Transport Engineering (or similar units from other institutions).
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Classify and explain the appropriate roles and operational processes of specific modes of transport at an advanced level.
- Exemplify and apply the system for planning, design, operation and management of transport projects and systems using engineering information at an advanced level.
- Contribute to a transport engineering assessment, as a team member with negotiated tasks, at an advanced level.
- Compose technical documentation of a transport engineering project that meets specifications and includes design calculations and drawings at an advanced level.
Content
1. Unit introduction and project introduction.
2. Transit applications in Australia.
3. Transit Infrastructure
4. Transit capacity analysis
5. Transit quality of service.
6. Advanced transit control.
7. Intelligent transport systems for transit.
8. Transport project review.
9. Transport project evaluation.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional transport engineers to give you insight into knowledge, skills, and attributes. You have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes that will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. They will be facilitated by a tutor and will provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
These activities will be detailed by week of semester on the unit schedule. You can also expect to be provided with with learning resources including video presentations and readings on a unit Canvas site, which you can access flexibly to complete your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the unit coordinator, lecturers and tutor.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled learning activities on campus and ask questions.
- Engage with online resources outside of timetabled learning activities. They will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding the release of these resources.
- Work in a group to complete a transit project in two parts. While there will be time during timetabled tutorial classes, you will also need to undertake independent work outside of this time to complete assessment tasks, including for areas of individual responsibility.
- Prepare for learning activities according to the unit schedule, and follow up on any work not completed.
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently throughout the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorial classes, with your group you will share your formative ideas for your transit project and you will receive feedback from your tutor. You are encouraged to view your group as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the transport engineering process and your understandings of transport engineering professional practice. Each assessment submission will be graded against criteria and standards that will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback given by the markers against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. You will work in a group to prepare and submit two assessments related to civil engineering systems analysis during the semester, deploying work practices that align to transport engineering professional practice (such as project management, cultural perspectives). You will be expected to work together with your group members and independently to make individual contributions to the assessments.You will sit an examination individually during the central examination period at the end of semester, where you will show your overall learning in the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Existing Conditions Analysis
You will work in a group, with tasks negotiated between members, to prepare your existing conditions analysis for your transit project. Your group will communicate your findings in a written technical report with appended calculations and designs, which meets a specification.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Project Conditions Analysis
You will work in a group, with tasks negotiated between members, to prepare your project conditions analysis for your transit project. Your group will communicate your findings in a written technical report with appended calculations and designs, which meets a specification.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Examination (written)
You will be required to analyse aspects of transport engineering systems including transit applications in the Australian context, infrastructure planning, capacity analysis, quality of service analysis, advanced control and intelligent transport systems, and project review and evaluation. You will be presented with descriptions of the transport engineering systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, demonstrate systems knowledge, show your working, and communicate a complete answer in writing and graphically.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Learning materials in this unit and links to online resources will be managed from its Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
Risks may be associated with you visiting study areas and/or project sites. You are required to have completed a valid Workplace Health and Safety course. You shall not enter project sites without the Unit Coordinator's approval. You shall not to contact members of the public, public officers or staff associated with any project without permission of the Unit Coordinator. More detailed information will be provided in your Week 1 information class.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
1: Knowledge and Skill Base
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Examination (written)
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written)
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written)
2: Engineering Application Ability
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written)
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written)
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written)
3: Professional and Personal Attributes
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN51 Master of Sustainable Infrastructure
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Sustainable Infrastructure
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Analyse and evaluate Sustainable Infrastructure problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Sustainable Infrastructure in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis - Effectively communicate Sustainable Infrastructure problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis
EN55 Master of Professional Engineering
- Apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability.
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve research informed solutions.
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project.
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis - Communicate complex information effectively and succinctly, presenting high level reports, arguments and justifications in oral, written and visual forms to professional and non specialist audiences.
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis - Organise and manage time, tasks and projects independently, and collaboratively demonstrating the values and principles that shape engineering decision making and professional accountability.
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis
EN71 Master of Sustainable Infrastructure with Project Management
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts, methods and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Sustainable Infrastructure and Project Management domains
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Analyse and evaluate problems in Sustainable Infrastructure and Project Management domains using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading-edge research to achieve evidence based, innovative, critically informed solutions and outcomes
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Sustainable Infrastructure and Project Management domains in a way that assures sustainable outcomes and strategic objectives over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis - Effectively communicate problems in Sustainable Infrastructure and Project Management domains, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability, reflective practice, risk-informed judgements, and leadership
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis
EN75 Master of Sustainable Infrastructure with Data Analytics
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts, methods and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Sustainable Infrastructure and Data Analytics domains
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Analyse and evaluate problems in Sustainable Infrastructure and Data Analytics domains using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading-edge research to achieve evidence based, innovative, critically informed solutions and outcomes
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Sustainable Infrastructure and Data Analytics domains in a way that assures sustainable outcomes and strategic objectives over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis - Effectively communicate problems in Sustainable Infrastructure and Data Analytics domains, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability, reflective practice, risk-informed judgements, and leadership
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis
EN79 Graduate Diploma in Engineering Studies
- Demonstrate and apply advanced discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary Engineering practice
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Analyse and evaluate Engineering problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
Relates to: Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage Engineering projects in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis - Effectively communicate Engineering problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis, Examination (written) - Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
Relates to: Existing Conditions Analysis, Project Conditions Analysis