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Energy Usage and Green Public Transportation in Future Smart Cities

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Energy Usage and Green Public Transportation in Future Smart Cities: An Innovative Teaching Program for Students, Stakeholders and Entrepreneurs

Project duration
24 months (01.12.2020. - 31.11.2022.)

Funding
Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

Project budget
167.825 EUR

Principal investigator
Professor Maja Čukušić, PhD

Research group members
Assoc. prof. Silvia Golem, PhD
Ivana Ninčević Pašalić, MSc

Project aims:

Teaching the multidisciplinary subject of future green public transportation systems in the future smart cities by preparing one-week teaching program made up of 7 teaching modules and one supporting module:

  1. Smart mobility and other “smart” parts assuring green future
  2. Energy-Related Smart Grids
  3. Green Vehicles and Green Public Transportation Network Design
  4. Intermodal Green Public Transport Planning
  5. Information Systems and Technologies for Green Public transportation
  6. Economics of Green Public Transportation Systems
  7. Entrepreneurship Opportunities Considering Smart City Public Transportation

Key deliverables:

  • curriculum for one-week teaching program (Croatian side prepares one out of eight modules)
  • An online one-week teaching program available for all interested people
  • An online teaching program platform provided by project website and free to use
  • Learning outcomes, evaluation methodologies, case studies, simulation games, in-class activities for each module in a one-week teaching program
  • Before and after questionnaires for each module
  • A project report which includes related information about green public transportation in future smart cities
  • Many posters, brochures and a handbook related to our project
  • Draft versions of syllabuses for 7 courses to be taught at universities as regular semester courses
  • Draft version of a Secondary Field program: Energy Usage and Green Public Transportation in Future Smart Cities, for undergraduate students at universities

Project website (available in Croatian only)