Dr Susan Grant-Muller

IRF Webinar:ITS Education: A dedicated

platform?

Sept 24th 2014

s.m.grant-muller@its.leeds.ac.uk

• 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 s.m.grant-muller@its.leeds.ac.uk

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

s.m.grant-muller@its.leeds.ac.uk

IRF ITS Education Platform