Energy Usage and Green Public Transportation in Future Smart Cities: An Innovative Teaching Program for Students, Stakeholders and Entrepreneurs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Energy Usage and Green Public Transportation in Future Smart Cities:
An Innovative Teaching Program for Students, Stakeholders and Entrepreneurs

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 : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Transport and mobility; Energy and resources

Project Summary

Green public transportation is a multidisciplinary subject which focuses designing the unimodal or intermodal public transportation system in the cities, energy usage in these systems, information systems to gather information related to possible passengers. Green public transportation is a common subject for all countries and this will be the most interested technological area not only for developed countries but also developing countries. All cities will transform their traditional transportation systems to cutting-edge high technology transportation systems.
So, in order to teach the future green public transportation systems in the future smart cities, we prepare one-week teaching program made up of 7 teaching modules and one supporting module:
• Smart mobility and other “smart” parts assuring green future
• Energy Related Smart Grids
• Green Vehicles and Green Public Transportation Network Design
• Intermodal Green Public Transport Planning
• Information Systems and Technologies for Green Public transportation
• Economics of Green Public Transportation Systems
• Entrepreneurship Opportunities Considering Smart City Public Transportation
The supporting module is “Innovative Curriculum Development for Smart City Public Transportation” which help us to develop an innovative curriculum for our program and use innovative teaching and evaluating methodologies in our 7 modules. We prepare one-day course syllabuses for first five modules and half-day course syllabuses for the last two modules which include the learning outcomes, innovative teaching and evaluation methodologies, outline and other related information. As a teaching methodology we use;
• Presentations, short videos for theoretical information about the module subject,
• Case Studies,
• Simple Simulation Games,
• In-class activities,
• Pre-after questionnaires.
Our target groups and objectives;
Students: Today’s graduate/undergraduate students will face with job opportunities which require multidisciplinary knowledge related to green public transportation in future smart cities. This requires a multidisciplinary knowledge about green public transportation that we aim to teach during our project.
Stakeholders: We are planning to increase awareness and capacity building of the stakeholders (such as people from vehicle production companies, data analysts, engineers, people from municipalities who will be the end users and policy makers of green public transportation systems) about the general perspective of green public transportation systems in order to prepare them for the future smart cities.
Universities: Each module has the potential to be a single course for the related major and minor programs at the universities. Our modules as a whole can be a secondary field program for the universities which includes public transportation related subjects for future smart cities.
Teaching assistants in the project will have the opportunity to focus on green public transportation in smart cities which is a new and very popular area of study.
Academicians who prepare the project are expected to attend conferences and publish articles about their modules to increase their visibility.
Participant academicians will improve their knowledge about the project subject and have the opportunity to communicate with other related professors during teaching program and new joint projects may be initiated.
Entrepreneurs: There are many new job opportunities for the entrepreneurs related with future green public transportation systems. We will inform the people who are willing to be entrepreneurs in near future.
We include the partner universities who are from developing countries that have dynamic economies and young population. There are 6 partners from 4 countries. There will be 19 members (academicians, teaching assistants and supporting professors) involved in the project.
We aim to teach 20 students, 10 stakeholders, 10 entrepreneurs from each partner country so that 80 students, 40 stakeholder and 40 entrepreneurs will be taught by the end of project.
By completion of project the following outputs will be provided;
• A curriculum for one-week teaching program
• An online one-week teaching program available for all interested people,
• An online teaching program platform provided by project website and free to use,
• Learning outcomes, evaluation methodologies, case studies, simulation games, in-class activities for each module in a one-week teaching program,
• Before and after questionnaires for each modules,
• A project report which includes related information about green public transportation in future smart cities,
• Many posters, brochures and a handbook related to our project,
• Draft versions of syllabuses for 7 courses to be taught at universities as regular semester courses,
• Draft version of a Secondary Field program: Energy Usage and Green Public Transportation in Future Smart Cities, for undergraduate students at universities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167825 Eur

Project Coordinator

TED UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI
• SVEUCILISTE U SPLITU
• Atomic Intelligence d.o.o.
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI