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Presented by Dr Susan Grant Muller as part of IRF webinar, 24/10/2014. www.its.leeds.ac.uk/people/s.grant-muller bit.ly/1yoX8jQ
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Dr Susan Grant-Muller
IRF Webinar:ITS Education: A dedicated
platform?
Sept 24th 2014
• ITS and Sustainability (carbon accounting for ITS, resilience, demand management, social aspects)
• Evaluation of ITS, consequential analysis, wider impacts, equity
• ‘Big data’ in Transport (UGC, harvesting social media for improved transport policy and user benefits, incentives, governance).
ITS Education and research biopic
Susan Grant-Muller [email protected]
University of Leeds education ethos: Research led learning
ITS Education Platform: General comments
• Role for ITS students (e.g. information exchange, ‘community’, ‘buddying’ etc?)
• Encouraging education excellence - IRF ITS annual student competition/prize (e.g. applied paper?)
• Links with continuing professional development (training)?
• Response level – IRF membership/networks span 5 continents and 70+ countries, do views vary significantly by location?
• Respondent Diversity – academics are in the minority – any differences amongst potential ‘suppliers’ of education and ‘consumers’
• Fund raising – is fund raising for student scholarships, travel grants, doctoral training networks viewed in the same light as research funds? (differences by location?)
• Widely accepted mission statement – how is the quality of ITS education defined (depth, relevance, breadth)?
ITS Education survey - observations
Links with industry - IRF strengths in industry contacts – also important for student projects, access to data etc?
Curriculum development – challenges of rapidly evolving state of art and technology advances
Linking with industry to fix match with labour market – student employability now high on agenda
Platform funding – questions remain on how to support the platform
ITS Education survey - observations
Taught Masters
•MSc (Eng) Transport Planning and Engineering
•Transport Data Collection and Analysis
•Road Geometry and Infrastructure
http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/
courses/masters/
Institute for Transport Studies: ITS Education Examples
PhD study
•Effective Use of ITS in Reducing Transport Impacts of Disasters
•Autonomisation of Traffic Incident Management
•Development of Low Energy and Carbon indicator for ITS
http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/
courses/phd/
• Range of skills needed and multidisciplinary approach
• Rapidly evolving landscape
• Different national needs and maturity of transport/ITS system
• Case study /experimental opportunities
ITS Education: key challenges
We wish the IRF ITS education platform every success and look forward to
contributing and participating
IRF ITS Education Platform