CAS System Aspects in Future Transport
"As a former participant of the CAS System Aspects, new powertrain technologies and innovative transport services are very exciting for me. As a project manager and tender planner for the Lucerne public transport company, there are many relevant links. As a transport provider we are, for example, very concerned about developments in autonomous driving in order to ensure our competitiveness in the future."
Marco Schärli, project manager and transport planer, Verkehrsbetriebe Luzern AG
The CAS System Aspects teaches participants the fundamentals and boundary conditions of the entire mobility system. This includes current dynamics and future developments as well as the evaluation of mobility scenarios. The fundamentals of designing innovation and change processes in mobility systems are also central.
Graduates are able to...
- understand the complexity of the overall mobility system, describe it qualitatively and relate it to their own professional context.
- derive temporal developments of mobility systems and targets from mobility scenarios.
- select suitable methods for the creation, analysis and evaluation of mobility systems.
- understand economic conditions for innovation and change in the field of mobility.
- analyse the foundations and challenges for disruptions in the transport system and relate them to their own practice.
Modules
Transport Systems: Dynamics and Future Developments (3 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Dr Peter de Haan (EBP) und Professor Alex Erath (FHNW)
A sound understanding of systems is central for being able to develop integrated and sustainable mobility solutions. This module examines interactions and dynamic changes and their effects on mobility and transport. It assesses future developments in the field by using mobility scenarios for Switzerland (e.g. from the ARE). Building on these foundations, the participants learn to derive practice-oriented targets and strategies for their own area of influence.
Mobility Systems: Development and Assessment of Mobility Scenarios (3 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Professor Alex Erath (FHNW)
The goal of this module is to get to know the common methods for the development and evaluation of mobility scenarios. This includes the analysis of how space and transport relate to each other, methods for transport modelling as well as the evaluation based on economic and planning criteria. The methodological challenges that arise in scenarios with future mobility options are at the focal point. Based on concrete problems and application examples, students learn to employ a selection of suitable methods and critically assess their limits. Based on a practical case study, the students also get to know software tools that are particularly suitable for the assessment of future forms of mobility.
Fundamentals of Designing Innovation and Change Processes in Mobility Systems (3 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Dr Jens Schippl (KIT Karlsruhe)
The module lays the foundations for understanding and designing innovation and transformation processes in mobility systems at different levels and viewing them from different perspectives such as technological, macro- and micro-economic or socio-technical. Participants learn about selected approaches such as "multi-level perspective" and "technology innovation systems" and discuss success factors as well as changing boundary conditions. The module analyses concrete examples such as rapid digitalisation and electromobility. Participants have a solid basic understanding of innovation and change processes in mobility systems and can apply this to concrete problems related to their own work context.
Mobility Systems: System Aspects of Air and Water Transport (3 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Dr Martin Streicher-Porte
Aviation and shipping cover an essential part of human mobility, the former in both passenger and freight transport, the latter mainly in freight transport. Students gain an overview, delimit the forms of mobility and assess air and shipping traffic within the overall mobility system. Thus they acquire the skills to evaluate the technological and economic potential of air and water transport from a socio-economic and environmental perspective.
CAS thesis System Aspects (3 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Dr Martin Streicher-Porte
Participants work in teams on a current problem from the subject area of the CAS System Aspects. In the CAS semester project, students show that they are able to prepare a well-founded analysis of technical and non-technical developments in the mobility system and their possible effects on the Swiss transport system or on parts of it.
Course language & materials: English/German