BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| URBAN SYSTEMS AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT (TURKISH, THESIS) | |||||
| Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| KSU5323 | Characteristics of Urban Railway Systems | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Basic information
| Language of instruction: | Turkish |
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Assist. Prof. NİLGÜN CAMKESEN |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
| Course Objectives: | The main objective of the course is giving information about last developments in urban railway systems, giving the ability of selecting the most suitable solution (most advanced, most adaptable, most beneficial) and its rapidly-effective implementation, understanding operational, line, vehicle, energy, environmental characteristics of urban railway systems. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Course outcomes are: -Having the experience of last improvements in urban railway systems (tramway, light railway systems, subway) -Having detailed information about general characteristics of urban railway systems, tramway-light metro-metro systems, operation-vehicle-line-energy feeding characteristics of these systems. |
Course Content
| General view to mass transport systems, general characteristics of urban railway sytems, tramway, light metro and metro systems. Operation, vehicle, line and energy feeding characteristics of these systems. Construction and meintenance methods, design-meintenance criterias, railway system characteristics in the world and Turkey. |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction to urban railway systems | |
| 2) | Operations In Urban Railway Systems | |
| 3) | Line geometry in urban railway systems | |
| 4) | Vehicle and energy in urban railway systems | |
| 5) | Design of urban railway systems | |
| 6) | Modes in urban railway systems | |
| 7) | Construction of urban railway systems | |
| 8) | Midterm Exam | |
| 9) | Urban Railway Systems Superstructure | |
| 10) | Safety in urban railway systems | |
| 11) | Implementation examples | |
| 12) | Meintenance in urban railway systems | |
| 13) | Environmental effects of urban railway systems | |
| 14) | Final Exam |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Derste Verilen Notlar / Lecture Notes |
| References: | Urban Transit Systems and Technology Vuchic R V 2007 Demiryolu Mühendisliği, Zübeyde Öztürk, Veysel Arlı 2009 Track Compendium Bernhard Lichtberger 2007 Modern Railway Track Coenraad Esveld 2001 |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 10 | % 0 |
| Quizzes | 4 | % 10 |
| Homework Assignments | 5 | % 20 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
| Final | 1 | % 40 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
ECTS / Workload Table
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 10 | 6 | 60 |
| Homework Assignments | 5 | 20 | 100 |
| Quizzes | 4 | 10 | 40 |
| Midterms | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Final | 1 | 40 | 40 |
| Total Workload | 270 | ||
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Improving and enhancing information in expertise level on the concept of transportation licence level abilities in terms of transportation department and related departments. | 5 |
| 2) | Having detailed information about current technics, methods and their constraints in transportation engineering. | 4 |
| 3) | Estabilishing engineering problems, improving methods for solution, implementing new methods in solutions | 4 |
| 4) | Completing and implementing information with limited datas, integrating informations of different discipline datas | |
| 5) | Estabilishing engineering problems, improving methods for solution, implementing new methods in solutions | |
| 6) | New/origin idea and method implementing, improving new solutions in system, part and process designs. | |
| 7) | Understanding process and results of studies, presenting the datas oral and written in related department on national and international scales, understanding a foreign language, having speaking, writing and reading level at least Europan Language Portfolio B2. | |
| 8) | Understanding social and environmental phases of technological implementations. Listing ability of current technics, methods, effects, constraints and results of technological implementations. | |
| 9) | Considering social-scientific-ethic values in collecting-understanding-implementing-presenting phases and all activities. | |
| 10) | Having information detailed and deeply by implemented researching in technology, evaluating and implementing of information | |
| 11) | Developing method for defined technological problems and implementing innovative methods in solutions. | |
| 12) | Modelling and implementing of experimental investigations, solving of complex cases in this process |