Course overview
This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to understand and analyse complex transport issues and develop and conceptualise advanced and sophisticated transport solutions in the form of regulations, policies and strategies. Students will develop an understanding of how transport issues and society's challenges can be translated into transport policy and objectives, and eventual transport management strategies and plans. Students will gain an understanding of the challenges of transport behavioural change, the role of governance in developing and managing transport policy within the opportunities and constraints presented by political, economic, financial, environmental and societal contexts, working with the private sector to deliver better transport outcomes, and funding approaches to support investment in transport infrastructure. Students will develop the capability and confidence to create transport policy objectives, policies, regulatory frameworks, project and infrastructure funding arrangements, strategic and operational plans, and communicate these to a range of audiences.
Course learning outcomes
- Analyze the complex political and economic concepts and theories that determine the content and form of transport policy
- Create new and innovative policy responses to transport issues that take into account the effects of institutional political, economic and social contexts
- Evaluate the appropriateness of particular transport policies, strategies and programs to solve transport issues, by applying advanced research and analytical skills
- Communicate issues and findings to specialist and non-specialist audiences
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