COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBAN TRANSPORTATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YÖN 4220 URBAN TRANSPORTATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR ELIF YÜCEBAŞ

Offered to

LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS (Evening)
LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS

Course Objective

The main objective of the course is to introduce urban transportation systems, policies, practices, and planning in the world and Turkey.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to define the terminology of urban transportation
2   Being able to tell the policies about urban transportation
3   Being able to explain the urban transportation policies in Turkey
4   Being able to assess the urban transportation policies in Turkey
5   Being able to propose solutions for the urban transportation problems

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The basic concepts of urban transportation
2 Transportation and Cities
3 Cities and Transportation planning
4 Sustainable transportation
5 Urban Transportation and Transportation Network
6 Urban Transportation Systems
7 Midterm
8 Midterm
9 Intelligent Urban Transportation Systems
10 Urban Transportation policies and legislation in Turkey
11 Transportation planning in Turkey
12 Urban transportation strategics, practices, plans and policies in the world
13 Urban transportation strategics, practices, plans and policies in the world
14 Urban transportation strategics, practices, plans and policies in the world

Recomended or Required Reading

Main resource:
Kılınçaslan, Tülay (2018). Kentsel Ulaşım Ulaşım Sistemi-Toplu Taşım-Planlama-Politikalar, Ninova Yayıncılık.
Supplementary Books:
Buldurur Aysan, Mesture (2018). Sürdürülebilir Kentsel Ulaşım, Birsen Yayınevi.
Tekeli, Ilhan (2010). Istanbul ve Ankara Için Kent Içi Ulaşım Tarihi Yazıları, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Question and Answer
3. Case study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FN Final
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE VZ*0.40 + FN* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ*0.40 + BUT* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

5 learning outcomes shall be accessed through midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students are required to attend at least 70% of the classes.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

elif.yucebas@deu.edu.tr
0.232.3012567

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 51

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