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Traffic Safety Engineering
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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
Aim(-s ) of a study programme: to prepare specialists of a traffic safety and management of inoverland transport, providing them with the knowledge of fundamental sciences, basics of transport engineering and engineering projects management; educating them to solve the system „operator – mean of transport – road – traffic environment“ problems creatively, to evaluate the influence of creative and implemented security and managing means of traffic safety on transport infrastructure, society and environment; to integrate innovative technologies based on the principles of sustainable transport; to develop critical thinking, to deepen and convey personal knowledge and be in learning process for the rest of the life applying new transport technologies.
Learning outcomes:
o Knowledge and awareness of scientific and mathematical core subjects and fundamental aspects of Transport Engineering.
o Knowledge and systematic understanding of the key concepts and applied principles in the study area of Overland Transport Engineering.
o Coherent knowledge in the study area of Transport Engineering.
o Awareness of the wider multidisciplinary context of Transport and Engineering; ability to adapt methods and processes of other scientific areas.
o Able to conduct searches of scientific and professional information by the means of data-bases and other sources of information.
o Able to plan and conduct required experiments; process, analyse and assess data, draw conclusions.
o Able to work with equipment applied in the study area of Overland Transport Engineering.
o Able to apply their knowledge and understanding in formulations and solutions to problems by selecting appropriate methods in the study area of road transport traffic safety and management.
o Able to apply their knowledge and understanding in formulating and analysing Engineering problems by selecting appropriate methods, experimental and production equipment.
o Able to select and apply appropriate analytical and modelling methods in the study area of Overland Transport Engineering.
o Able to apply knowledge and understanding about traffic safety and management of Transport Engineering in developing and implementing projects that comply with defined requirements.
o Understanding of engineering design methodologies, and ability to use them.
o Able to design and modernise systems and its elements related to traffic safety and management.
o Able to select and use appropriate equipment, tools and methods to implement engineering transport safety solutions.
o Knowledge of construction and functions of road vehicle, road and its elements; abilities of its application.
o Understanding and consideration of ethical, environmental and commercial conditions of engineering activities.
o Understanding of interaction principles of engineering activity organization, importance of fire prevention and operational safety, interaction of engineering operational units.
o Able to function as an individual and as a member of a team.
o Able to communicate with engineering community and the general public.
o Understand holistically the impact of engineering solutions on society and the environment, follow the norms of professional ethics and engineering activities, comprehend responsibility for engineering activities.
o Understand aspects of business and project management, technological solution interaction with economic consequences.
o Understand the importance of Life-long learning.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Teaching and learning forms that are inteded to use: lectures, practicals, laboratory works, consultations, applying interactive means of teaching, case analysis, tasks for individual work; homework; computerized tasks; discussions; presentations. Pactical abilities will be developed during practicals and doing term works/projects; complex projects; practice exercises apllying individual and group methods; team work with evatuation respectively; also the subjects of the final thesis preparation.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
Practical evaluation methods (examinations, reviews, etc.;) are applied to evaluate the results that students were suposed to achieve; evaluation methods on writing (quiz, test, auditorial work or other); oral evalution methods (individual, frontal questioning), supervising group or individual presentations, analysis, conversation, review analysis, testing according to open or half open questions and other.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Study subjects, practice: the part of a general subjects of the university studies – 15 (credits), General fundamentals – 6 (credits), subjects of Humanities, Social or Art sciences – 9 (credits), Study subjects – 171 (credit), General subjects of theory fundamentals – 63 (credits), the Main subjects of studies – 66 (credits), subjects of Social sciences – 12 (credits), Professional practices – 15 (credits), Final Project/Thesis – 15 (credits), the Specialized part of the study programme – 54 (credits) Specialized subjects – 48 (credits), optional subjects – 6 (credits).
Main subjects of studies: Sustainable Road Environment, Railway General Course, Land Vehicle Engineering, Theory of Mechanisms and Machines, Vehicle Mechanics, Transport Equipment Design, Environment Protection in Transport, Basic of Road Engineering, Specific Goods Transportation Technology, Andragogy, Road Users Psychology, Computer Aided Engineering for Transport Machinery, Vehicle Dynamics, Mobility Management Basics, Automatic Control Devices and Systems, Basics of Railway Engineering.
Specialized subjects: Intelligent Traffic Management Systems, Automotive Theory, Automotive Theory (course work), Automotive Electronic Control Systems, Traffic Organization Basics, Design and Maintenance of Automotive Safety Systems (Integrated Project), Driver’s Behaviour and its Formation, Automotive Active and Passive Safety, Vehicle Maintenance and Repair, Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents, Traffic Regulation, Traffic Flow Theory, Railway Stations and Terminals Operating Technologies, Rail Vehicle Engineering, Railway Stations Design (Course Project), Trains Traffic Management Principles, Trains Traffic Management Principles (Course Project), Passenger and cargo transportation by railways (Integrated Project), Rail Transport Automatic Equipment and Systems, International Passenger and Cargo Transportation by Railways, Railway Traffic Safety, Rail Traction Theory, Rail Transport Commercial Operation and Management Technologies, Hoisting Operations and Technologies.
Specialisations: Automobile Transport Traffic Safety; Railway Transport Traffic Safety and Management
Optional courses:
You can choose the same course additional courses, you can choose courses from another field of science, and you can freely choose additional general subjects (12 credits).
Distinctive features of a study programme: Traffic Safety Engineering is the only study programme of the first cycle in Lithuania that prepares specialists in the Transport Engineering field, Traffic Safety Engineering branch.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
Graduates of Traffic Safety Engineering programme will be able to employ successfully in such companies that organize traffic, keep drivers‘ and means of transport control, maintain and perform audits on roads, do projects, implement and maintain engineering means of the traffic safety:
In the State Road Transport Inspectorate under the Ministry of Transport and Communication - namely - the Department of Road Transport activities and regulation and the Department of Traffic Safety; also in the regional departments;
In the state enterprise „Regitra“ (10 branch offices in the country) – the Departments of Examination Methodology and Vehicle Registration and Identification ;
In the asociation of technical inspection „Transeksta“ and in its founders – 10 centers of technical inspection in the whole country and in the consulting company UAB „Transporto studijos“;
In the companies that practice engineering infratructure decisions and safety sistems – UAB „Fima“, UAB „Eismo valdymo sistemos“, UAB „Viltechna“ and others.
Graduates of the programme will be eligible specialists and experts in insurance companies and other companies or institutions, road police service, in the traffic organization departments of municipalities, in the centres of driver training and their qualification improvement around thecountry.
The rail transport safety and management specialist are needed for the Ministry of Transport and Communication and for its branches (The State Railway Inspectorate), AB „Lietuvos geležinkeliai“ and others. The need for rail transport safety and management specialist is available for the companies that use rail transport as a means for their aims and demands - UAB „Transachema“, AB „Lifosa“, AB „ORLEN Lietuva“, for the companies of sea cargos UAB „Bega“, AB „Klaipėdos jūrų krovinių kompanija“, LKAB „Klaipėdos Smeltė“, logistikos įmonėms – UAB „Schenker“, UAB „Intermodal container service“, UAB „AAA Intermodal“, UAB „Hoptrans projects“ and others. Profesional abilities of the future graduates will be demonstrated in such areas: management of transportation processes, organization of goods and commercial activities and the development of stations operating technologies.
Access to further study: After completing a study programme of Traffic Safety Engineering graduates can continue their studies at Masters level.
