EGB479 Advanced Transport Engineering
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| Unit code: | EGB479 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | EGB272 or Admission to EN55 |
| Equivalent(s): | ENB379, EGB379 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,680 |
| International unit fee | $5,784 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB479 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EGB272 or Admission to EN55 |
| Equivalent: | EGB379, ENB379 |
| Coordinator: | Jonathan Bunker | j.bunker@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The transport engineer must be familiar with the role of each transport mode in the overall transport task, along with operational aspects of each mode. This must be overarched by an understanding of the system and tools for planning, operation and management of transport projects, particularly in context of economic, environmental and social attributes. The aim of this unit is to develop your awareness and understanding of important concepts and analytical tools for operations, planning, designing, and management of transport systems, especially transit systems. This unit builds upon your transport related knowledge and skills developed in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems and EGB272 Traffic and Transport Engineering, and provides a useful foundation to EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Classify and explain the appropriate roles of specific modes of transport.
- Analyse the operational processes associated with specific modes of transport.
- Exemplify and apply the system for planning, operation and management of transport projects and systems.
- Evaluate a transport project or plan with respect to its economic, environmental and social attributes.
- Search and procure pertinent information from an appropriate range of sources using effective strategies; critically evaluate information; and use applicable information in completing your project.
- Apply a professional dialogue with specialists and non-specialists by way of written documents and drawings in completing your project.
- Function effectively as a team member to work towards set objectives, resolve somewhat defined tasks and manage time and a limited range of resources in completing your project
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 transport control.
7. Intelligent transport systems for transit.
8. Transport project review.
9. Transport project evaluation.
Learning Approaches
Teaching Mode
Lectures- 2 hours per week
Tutorials- 1 hours per week
Learning Approaches
This unit offers you an ability to develop further skills and knowledge around transport engineering and planning. You will undertake a semester long, problem based learning project, in groups of four, emphasizing your team working ability and ability to communicate professionally.
Weekly lectures on new material will be provided by a team with expertise in their respective fields. You will be expected to use information and methodologies discussed, in the completion of your projects. The remaining contact time will consist of tutorials where unit staff will be available to guide you on your projects. The unit coordinator will be available throughout the semester to provide guidance on general aspects of the unit.
It is stressed that you must attend the contact sessions in order to gain full advantage of staff presence. You will be encouraged to use the unit Canvas site, which will be provided as a central resource.
Learning Approaches will include: problem based, team based learning, experiential learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback through group dialogue with teaching staff, written comments upon, and grading of your submission documentation, both of which will enable you to understand how your team is progressing and how your work may be improved. A component of the grade for each submission will be set for each individual based on their contribution to the submission.
Grading will be made through the use of Criterion Referenced Assessment pro-forma, which will be discussed in class and published on Canvas prior to the due dates.
Assessment
Overview
General assessment information
Both the formative and a proportion of the summative assessment for this unit are centred upon the completion of a semester project, which will be delivered through two team submissions. You will sit a final examination individually to exemplify your knowledge and skills gained in the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
Submit part one of the group project covering transit capacity, quality of service and transport planning according to the project brief.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
Submit part 2 of the group project covering intelligent transport systems for transit, transport project review and evaluation.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Examination (written)
Formal Examination conducted as a Timed Online Assessment covering all aspects of transport engineering and planning applications
“If campus access is restricted at the time of the central examination period/due date, an alternative, which may be a timed online assessment, will be offered. Individual students whose circumstances prevent their attendance on campus will be provided with an alternative assessment approach.”
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
A unit Canvas site will provide a clearinghouse for electronic resources as well as documentation on unit housekeeping. You are expected to both review the unit Canvas site and check your QUT student email account at least one day prior to each class.
A package of basic background information that is relevant to each project (including Project Brief) will be issued to each team. You will be expected to identify any information further than that issued formally to the class, and where feasible, procure that information. Notwithstanding, you shall not approach members of the public nor public officers in relation to your project without authorisation of the unit coordinator.
You may incur incidental costs in printing lecture notes and web based manuals, and using electronic media for information storage.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Author: Transportation Research Board (USA)
Title: Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual
Year: 2013.
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences, USA.
Edition: third edition (online, no cost)
Risk Assessment Statement
Risks may be associated with students visiting study areas and/or project site vicinities. Students are required have a valid White Card. Students are not to enter project sites. Students are not to contact members of the public, public officers or staff associated with any project without permission of the Unit Coordinator. Students will be informed in more detail in the Week 1 information class.