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

1. Dr Susan Grant-Muller
IRF Webinar:
ITS Education: A dedicated
platform?
Sept 24th 2014
s.m.grant-muller@its.leeds.ac.uk

2. ITS Education and research biopic
University of Leeds education ethos: Research led
learning
• 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).
Susan Grant-Muller s.m.grant-muller@its.leeds.ac.uk

3. 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)?

4. ITS Education survey - observations
• 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)?

5. 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

6. Institute for Transport Studies: ITS
Education Examples
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/
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/

7. ITS Education: key challenges
• Range of skills needed and multidisciplinary approach
• Rapidly evolving landscape
• Different national needs and maturity of transport/ITS
system
• Case study /experimental opportunities

8. IRF ITS Education Platform
We wish the IRF ITS education platform
every success and look forward to
contributing and participating
s.m.grant-muller@its.leeds.ac.uk

9. IRF ITS Education Platform
We wish the IRF ITS education platform
every success and look forward to
contributing and participating
s.m.grant-muller@its.leeds.ac.uk