This course will explore the issues and constraints of transport policy through the joint readings of a set of relevant papers.The class will meet every three weeks to discuss the texts.

-Introduction to the fundamentals of transportation-Developing an understanding of the interactions between land use and transportation-Introduction to the dynamics of transport systems: daily patterns and historical developments

-Introduction to the fundamentals of transportation-Developing an understanding of the interactions between land use and transportation-Introduction to the dynamics of transport systems: daily patterns and historical developments

The lecture course discusses the basic concepts, approaches and methods of transport planning in both their theoretical and practical contexts.

The course provides the necessary knowledge to develop models to understand, to support and to evaluate the solution of given planning problems.The course is composed of a lecture part, providing the theoretical knowledge, and an applied part in which students develop their own models in order to evaluate a transport project/policy.

Introduction of the basic principles of the design and operation oftransport systems (road, rail, air) and of the essential pathways of theirimpacts (investment, generalised costs, accessibilities, external effects), referring to relatively constant, and factors with substantial future uncertainty, in the past and expected evolution of transport systems.

The goal is to integrate the contents of the lectures of the block “Transportation” through a joint set of exercises which will allow the students to understand how the parts come together in the design of transport systems. The exercise will be based on a Swiss city. The exercises will involve onsite work.