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Instructors: N.N.
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Transport
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
German/English
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 25
Comments/contents:
Singapore is unique in its policies and transport-system. It attracts worldwide attention for implementing innovative approaches to seemingly universal transport problems. This module will explore key ideas that are essential for understanding and assessing urban transport policy debates. For this purpose we will start exploring the interdependencies between transport and urban form, the economy, ecology and social matters. We need to understand the governmental organisations, the administration and the non-governmental organisations as well as civil society, who have an interest in shaping transport policies in Singapore. This should provide a basis for the analysis of policy decisions taken in Singapore since independence and the actually ongoing planning for the Master Plan 2040. In exemplary cases we will compare them with transport-developments in other cities in the region and world-wide.
The lectures will be delivered in English, but the students may respond and ask questions in German. The student is required to attend the lectures and prepare the readings to be discussed in class. In general, these readings are analytical articles about the topic of that week. The student is required to present a topic in the module assigned to him or her in the beginning of the semester and write an essay on it.
Biodata: In research, consultancy and cultural tourism Matthias Müth has worked in Southeast Asia over the past 25 years. In the Philippines he has studied disaster-management and published on the aftermath of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo vulcano. In Singapore and Bangkok he researched the making of transport policies for his PhD in political science, returning to Thailand as a consultant for regulatory regimes in urban transport.
Learning objectives:
To introduce the student in a general and systematic way to major aspects and interdependencies, which shape the transport-systems of cities, as well as some of their political implications.
Learning objectives:
• Further developing capacities for analysis, reflection, establishing thesis and defending them
• Training research and presentation-skills
Content:
• Knowledge of the unique geographical, historical and political situation of Singapore
• General understanding of the interrelationships of urban transport with urban structure, the economy, environment, and social aspects
• Introduction to key contemporary urban transport choices and shifting paradigms regarding transport policies of some international development institutions
• Familiarity with the overarching transport policies implemented in Singapore
Literature:
• Asian Development Bank (2009) Changing Course: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Transport, https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/transport-manual.pdf
• Müth, Matthias (2003): Verkehrspolitik in Metropolen Südostasiens. Politische Entscheidungsprozesse im Spannungsfeld gesellschaftlicher Interessen: der Personennahverkehr in Singapur und Bangkok. Hamburg.
• Land Transport Authority Singapore
for Land Transport Master Plan 2013 and White Paper, https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltaweb/en/publications-and-research.html
for public consultation process on the Land Transport Master Plan 2040, https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltaweb/en/about-lta/what-we-do/ltmp2040.html
• Reinventing Transport, https://www.reinventingtransport.org/2018/10/city-transport-types.html
• Sustainable Urban Transport Project, https://www.sutp.org/en/resources.html
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme / UN-Habitat (2015): The State of Asian and Pacific Cities 2015. Urban transformations: Shifting from quantity to quality. London, https://unhabitat.org/books/the-state-of-asian-and-pacific-cities-2015/
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