Course syllabus
Course-PM
TRA405 Micromobility for a sustainable future lp4 VT24 (7.5 hp)
Course is offered by Tracks
Contact details
Examiner and main teacher: Marco Dozza, marco.dozza@chalmers.se
Teachers:
- Erik Ström
- Frances Sprei
- Jonas Sjöberg
- Bengt Jacobsson
- Fredrik Bruzelius
- Pontus Walgren
Guests:
Haneen Farah (TUD)
Griselda Lopez-Maldonado (UPV)
Arend Schwab (TUD)
Anna Niska (VTI)
Helena Stigson (Folksam)
Course purpose
1. Understand how intelligent communication technologies can improve the integration of micromobility in the transport system.
2. Apply that understanding to develop intelligent applications that make micromobility safer, more efficient and more acceptable.
Schedule
Course literature
With input from the teaching team, students will develop the ability to identify and acquire relevant literature throughout their projects. The teachers will provide most of the literature for the course in the form of slide presentations, scientific papers, standards, videos, and/or regulations.
Course design
This course will introduce micromobility solutions and highlight their peculiarities and potential contributions toward a more sustainable transport. The trade-offs among safety, efficiency, and acceptability will be the focus of the course and will offer the opportunity to understand the interplay among user behaviour, vehicle dynamics and control, environmental impact, and infrastructure design. The course will also address life cycle assessment and recycling to evaluate the potential benefits from micromobility to contribute to sustainable transport and livable cities. Visits at and lectures from several stakeholders will help students appreciate the complexity of the problem and the multidisciplinary approach required to solve it. The micromobility project within the course will be an occasion for the student to develop novel intelligent micromobility systems for a safe, efficient, and acceptably integration of micromobility in the transport system. Several activities will be organized to expose the students to different aspects of micromobility.
The main topics of this course are:
- Intelligent communication technologies for micromobility
- Dynamics and control of micromobility vehicles
- Micromobility safety
- Human factors in micromobility
- Environmental impact of micromobility solutions
Organisation
The course comprises of
- Lectures from the teaching team
- Guest lectures from micromobility stakeholders
- Study visits and micromobility activities
- Exercises
- Micromobility project* (applied team project to be carried out in the Fuse learning environment)
*The aim of the project is to develop an application that uses intelligent communication technology to improve micromobility. You will choose a micromobility vehicle, come up with an application to implement in the vehicle, and make a prototype to demo.
Learning objectives and syllabus
General learning outcomes for Tracks courses:
- be able to critically and creatively identify and/or formulate advanced architectural or engineering problems
- be able to work in multidisciplinary teams and collaborate in teams with different compositions
- show insights about and deal with the impact of architecture and/or engineering solutions in a global, economic, environment and societal context.
- be able to orally and in writing explain and discuss information, problems, methods, design/development processes and solutions
Course specific learning outcomes:
- Classify and compare micromobility vehicles including dynamics and control.
- Explain the opportunities and threats that micromobility vehicles bring to the transport system.
- Elucidate how intelligent communication technologies may support micromobility.
- Apply intelligent communication technologies to facilitate the integration of micromobility solutions in the transport system.
- Compare the interests and responsibilities of different micromobility stakeholders for a safe, efficient, and acceptable integration of micromobility in the transport system.
Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen: Study plan
Examination form
To pass the course, the student will need to 1) pass the quizzes/exercises (typically on CANVAS and related to individual lectures and visits/activities) and 2) pass the project. To pass the quiz quizzes/exercises, the students will need to correctly answer questions or execute simple tasks within a specific time frame. To pass the project, the students will be required to present their idea, compile a report, and demo the application they developed during the course at an open event at FUSE. The final grade will depend on the outcomes of the quizzes and the project.
Upon successful completion, the course awards 7.5 ECTS; 4 ECTS for the project and 3.5 ECTS for the quizzes.