2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Undergraduate major in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Urban and Transportation Planning Project
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Yasunori Muromachi / Toru Seo / Riki Kawase / Yuki Takayama
- Class Format
- Experiment (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-8 Mon
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- CVE.D230
- Number of credits
- 002
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1-2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 25, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course focuses on planning and designing urban/transportation infrastructure. It covers the fundamental skills of presentation explaining significance and reasonableness of the projects, design of infrastructures, and logical evaluation of the projects considering various stakeholders and elements.
This course consists of lectures and group work. In group work, each group deals with a topic about 1. urban expressway, 2. railway network, 3. transportation hub, 4. airports, 5. disaster management, and 6. tourist city. Each group creates planning alternatives, conducts evaluation of alternatives, and finally designs urban/transportation infrastructure. Students report their achievements by mid-term/final presentations, reports, and deliverables.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Have an understanding of fundamental skills of project management.
2) Produce a report of the projects which includes logical explanation and evaluation based on findings.
3) Have skills of identifying issues of a project and proposing alternatives.
4) Have an understanding of logical evaluation of the projects considering various stakeholders and elements.
5) Acquire the oral competence necessary to make presentations in Japanese, articulate views/ideas/findings, etc., and debate effectively.
Keywords
Urban planning, Transportation planning, Regional planning, Local planning, Infrastructure planning, Infrastructure project
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This course consists of lectures and group work. In group work, students are required to conduct a literature review, on-site review/survey, planning alternatives, evaluation of alternatives, and finally, design urban/transportation infrastructure. Students report their achievements by mid-term/final presentations, reports, and deliverables. Attendance is taken in every class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Guidance and intruction about topics of group work. Lecture no.1 about fundamental skills. | Understand the role of this project study. |
| Class 2 | Lecture no.2 about fundamental skills. Group discussion about fundamental information about projects. | Conduct literature review about target projects． |
| Class 3 | Lecture no.3 about fundamental skills. Group discussion about the results of the literature review. | Summarize literature review result and extract inherit problems of the target projects. |
| Class 4 | Analysis of the data from the survey. / Group discussion about the fundamental concept of the target project. / Site investigation for target projects (1). | Summarize and analyze the survey data. /Establish the fundamental concept/vision of the target project. Conduct site investigation and extract issues. |
| Class 5 | Analysis of the data from the survey. / Group discussion about the fundamental concept of the target project. / Site investigation for target projects (2). | Summarize and analyze the survey data. /Establish the fundamental concept/vision of the target project. Conduct site investigation and extract issues. |
| Class 6 | Analysis of the data from the survey. / Group discussion about the fundamental concept of the target project. / Site investigation for target projects (3). | Summarize and analyze the survey data. /Establish the fundamental concept/vision of the target project. Conduct site investigation and extract issues. |
| Class 7 | Mid-term presentation. | Create mid-term presentation and report. |
| Class 8 | Study tour for infrastructure projects (tentative). | Summarize the study tour results and remark the own idea about the project. |
| Class 9 | Re-examination of the fundamental concept of the target project. | Review the comments from the mid-term presentation and modify the concept of the projects. |
| Class 10 | Group discussion about the design of planning alternatives (1). | Compare the project alternatives. |
| Class 11 | Group discussion about the design of planning alternatives (2). | Compare the project alternatives. |
| Class 12 | Group discussion about the design of planning alternatives (3). | Compare the project alternatives. |
| Class 13 | Group discussion about the design of planning alternatives (4). | Compare the project alternatives. |
| Class 14 | final presentation. | final presentation. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 50 minutes preparing for class and another 50 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
The original textbook of the course is provided.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials are provided during class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students’ course scores are based on exercise (20%), report (20%), presentation (20%), and deliverables (40%)
Attendance of at least 80% of lectures and full attendance of mid and final presentations are compulsory.
Related courses
- Fudamentals of Infrastructure Planning
- Traffic and Transportation Systems
- Urban Planning and Infrastructure
- Public Economics
Prerequisites
No prerequisites, but the students of Civil & Eng. Department will be prioritized to take this course due to the capacity constraints.
Other
Date of study tour is tentative, and the final version of the schedule is shown in the first class.