General information

Course type AMUPIE
Module title Geography Of Urban Transport
Language English
Module lecturer Adam Radzimski
Lecturer's email adrad@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position profesor uczelni (associate professor)
Faculty Faculty of Human Geography and Planning
Semester 2022/2023 (winter)
Duration 15
ECTS 3
USOS code 25-GUT-AMU-PIE

Timetable

The course takes place from 15.00 to 16.30 on November 24, December 1, 8, 15, 22, January 12 and 19.

Location: Collegium Geographicum, Bogumiła Krygowskiego 10, Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Room 103 (1st floor)

How to get there: https://goo.gl/maps/ZCYtn9Ugh5nhQ8XY6

Module aim (aims)

The module aims to demonstrate how geography helps in a better understanding of urban transport. As a large share of travel takes place within cities, the organisation and functioning of urban transport systems have got profound impacts in different spheres, including, but not limited to economic activity, social cohesion, climate change, and quality of life.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to geography of urban transport
Week 2: What is accessibility and why does it matter?
Week 3: What is good (and wrong) about mobility?
Week 4: Well-being and satisfaction with travel
Week 5: Urban transport and city structure
Week 6: Sustainable urban transport
Week 7: Presentations of students' projects

Reading list

Banister D. (2008). The sustainable mobility paradigm, Transport Policy 15(2): 73-80.
Delbosc A., Currie G. (2011). The spatial context of transport disadvantage, social exclusion and well-being, Journal of Transport Geography, 19(6): 1130-1137.
Gadziński J. (2018). Perspectives of the use of smartphones in travel behaviour studies: Findings from a literature review and a pilot study,
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 88 : 74-86.
Schwanen T, Dijst M, Dieleman FM (2004). Policies for Urban Form and their Impact on Travel: The Netherlands Experience. Urban Studies, 41(3): 579-603.
Schwanen T., Mokhtarian P. (2005). What affects commute mode choice: neighborhood physical structure or preferences toward neighborhoods?
Journal of Transport Geography 13(1): 83-99.