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Environmental Impact of Transportation

This document outlines control questions for the 2018/19 academic year Transportation Engineering MSc program covering environmental effects of transport. The questions address: [1] external effects of transport like road/rail factors, impacts, and management; [2] particulate matter emissions from roads; [3] objectives and examples in sustainable mobility's environmental, economic, and social fields; [4] tools targeting transport sustainability; [5] components of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. Additional questions cover: [6] parking policy; [7] urban road congestion fees; [8] transport demand management tools; [9] sub-urban and regional sustainability; [10] settlement structure and mobility needs. Further questions address: [11]

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Environmental Impact of Transportation

This document outlines control questions for the 2018/19 academic year Transportation Engineering MSc program covering environmental effects of transport. The questions address: [1] external effects of transport like road/rail factors, impacts, and management; [2] particulate matter emissions from roads; [3] objectives and examples in sustainable mobility's environmental, economic, and social fields; [4] tools targeting transport sustainability; [5] components of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. Additional questions cover: [6] parking policy; [7] urban road congestion fees; [8] transport demand management tools; [9] sub-urban and regional sustainability; [10] settlement structure and mobility needs. Further questions address: [11]

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Environmental effects of Transport

2018/19 academic year, Transportation Engineering MSc program

Control questions:

1. External effects of transport, three characteristic examples of factors from the field of
road and rail, those manifestations, impacts and management methods.

2. Appearance forms of road PM, particulate matter emissions, categories, size ranges,
sources.

3. Sustainable mobility – environmental, economic, social – objectives, three


characteristic examples of each field, short background references.

4. Tools, instruments, targeting sustainability on the field of transport, short


characterization

5. Main components of SUMP, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, recommended


indicators.

6. Parking policy and management instruments, tasks in downtown areas, for the
moderation of traffic and environmental loads.

7. Main components of urban road – congestion – fee systems, conditions, requirements.

8. Transport demand management tools, efficiency aspects, cost benefit references.

9. Sustainability aspects of sub-urban, agglomeration transport and regional structures.

10. Correlation of settlement structure and mobility needs, instruments to transport


demand management.

11. Integration of pedestrian mobility, rehabilitation, main instruments, conditions,


opportunities.

12. Possible elements of pedestrian package, instruments of promotion.

13. Conditions and elements of urban cycling, in the main categories, measure groups,
instruments.

14. Supporting environment of cycling, infrastructure elements, main components.

15. Elements for assessment of transport infrastructure development, during cost benefit
analysis, data requirements, fields.

16. Environmental impact assessment, basic motifs, main directions, target areas, basic
elements of assessment process.

17. Main objectives, elements of Strategic Impact Assessment.


18. Main fields of management of freight transport, applied groups of instruments,
measures.

19. Directions of regulation of road freight transport, user fees, IT instruments, systems,
restrictions.

20. Main sources and components of transport noise, formulation of characteristic noise
levels, methods of noise protection, instruments.

21. Regulation instruments of transport noise protection, main tasks of the related
Directive, on the field of transport.

22. Definition of strategic noise maps, application opportunities, content elements.

23. Integrated transport systems – urban and agglomeration – components, conditions.

24. Substitution directions of traditional fossil fuels, characteristic forms, solution modes,
efficiency questions, background verticum, CO2 emission, other instruments.

25. Factors, establishing the necessity of fuels of renewable basis, advantages, side effects
to manage, objectives, recommendations.

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