TNK098 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1F) · Logistik, Transportsystem
Planning of Public Transportation and Railway Traffic
Active · next start HT 2026
100%
passed the latest regular sitting
UPG2 · 12 Jan 2026 · 6 students
100%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
UPG2 · 19 students
This module only reports passing results, so the pass rate does not show how many did not pass.
Part of 2 programmes
Hand-in or lab
UPG2 Group Assignments
- 5
- 4
- 3
Main rounds
100% passed · 19 students
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Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 4 or 5: 26% (19 students)
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Hand-in assignments
- 5
- 4
- 3
Main rounds
100% passed · 12 students
- 100%6
- 100%6
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 4 or 5: 50% (12 students)
Show small sittings (6)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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About the course
Aim
The purpose of the course is to give insight to how the planning and operation of public transportation and railway traffic is carried out. The course is focusing on strategic and tactical aspects such as transport network planning, timetable construction, maintenance scheduling and rolling stock planning. The course is preparatory for research studies. After the course, the student shall be able to:
- describe state-of-the-art in research in planning of public transport and railway traffic.
- understand and examine relevant models and methods used to design a new transport network, evaluate these and discuss their strengths and weaknesses
- understand the process of railway capacity allocation, the importance of timetabling, develop and analyze how optimization models can be used to solve capacity conflicts and coordination problems.
- Implement and evaluate planning methods for demand-responsive services.
Content
The course outlines how the planning of public transportation and railway traffic is carried out today. The course addresses the current prerequisites in terms of political agendas, legislation and its organization with the different stakeholders and their functions. The course content also includes models and methods applied to facilitate the planning and operations. The course is composed of the following parts:
- Review of latest research in the area, based on a selection of journal papers.
- Strategic and tactical timetable construction and capacity allocation for railways
- Planning of demand responsive public transport.
- Examiner
- Anders Peterson
- Scheduled hours
- 36 h
- Main field of study
- Logistik, Transportsystem