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Title:

Expanding Transportation Education Across the Academy: The Sustainable City Year Program
Cover of Expanding Transportation Education Across the Academy: The Sustainable City Year Program

Accession Number:

01477035

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Transportation agencies are grappling with new and unfamiliar issues from addressing big problems like climate change to focusing on accessibility, where land use, urban design, and active transportation modes are more important. These challenges come at a time when the resources necessary to meet them are scarce and many agency staff members are reaching retirement. At the same time, Universities continue to attract a new generation of students who are not only comfortable and familiar with these new concepts, but are eager for a workplace that embraces this multi-disciplinary environment. A multi-disciplinary approach that includes fields not normally associated with transportation would seem to be critical to making sustainable transportation thrive in the complex environment of the city. The Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) at the University of Oregon addresses this complexity head on by annually connecting twenty-five courses across ten or more disciplines with transportation and other sustainability projects identified by city staff of a different city each academic year. Each year, about 25 faculty and 500 students give over 80,000 hours of effort to help local cities move forward on vexing issues. Students gain professional hands-on experience, an opportunity to learn from multiple disciplines, and an understanding that complex transportation issues require a diverse set of skill sets and perspectives to solve. This paper describes SCYP, highlights a few transportation-specific projects that “non-traditional” transportation students take on, and presents a new model for higher education across the country that can help train the next generation transportation workforce.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABG20 Transportation Education and Training.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-0862

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Schlossberg, Marc

ORCID 0000-0002-7698-4814

Larco, Nico

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

University of Oregon

Subject Areas:

Education and Training; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-0862

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:17PM