Curricula Enrichment delivered through the Application of Location-based Services to Intelligent Transport Systems Erasmus Project

Project Title

Curricula Enrichment delivered through the Application of Location-based Services to Intelligent Transport Systems

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Sri Lanka faces many transportation challenges. Constraints such as timely access to modern technology and the lack of appropriately trained personnel have contributed to increasing social, economic and environmental concerns around road safety, pollution and transport inefficiencies. We will address these issues through enrichment of the university curricula. Specifically, the integration of LBS into ITS. LBS deliver information based on the location of objects. Smart transportation is therefore an ideal LBS application since it is based on locating people (e.g. using smartphones) and objects (e.g. cars, trains, etc.). As LBS evolve rapidly, there is an increasing need to train the next generation of skilled professionals who can leverage these new capabilities. This is important for Sri Lanka, where population growth and resource constraints demand the urgent use of emerging technologies to secure the safety and sustainability of their society. This level of education is in its infancy and cannot rapidly deliver the knowledge inputs required to change transport management decision-making. The consortium of 3 EU and 4 Sri Lankan Universities will build a fully immersive and integrated teaching and learning experience. The outcome will be a digital learning environment supporting synthetic and real-world learning experiences encouraging self-paced learning modules for both teacher and students. It will contain digital resource kits for interaction with modern equipment, continuous assessment and two-way feedback. Webinars and virtual experiences will underpin real-world Problem-based Learning (PBL) scenarios. A key novelty will be inclusion of industry representatives and external experts in the advisory groups. These will support our dissemination and quality control initiatives, the relevance of the PBL and student learning outcomes. Mentorship and a focus on cultural awareness, gender equity and social parity will govern our principles for curricula enrichment.

Project Website

http://lbs2its.net

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 965465 Eur

Project Coordinator

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN & Country: AT

Project Partners

• THE SABARAGAMUWA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA
• UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA
• UNIVERSITY OF SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA
• GENERAL SIR JOHN KOTELAWALA DEFENCEUNIVERSITY
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
• ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION