Smart mobility: Ethics and Legal Issues, Transport Engineering and spatial development

Goal :

After the course the student :
• have acquired knowledge in the field of transport, which is necessary to develop IT solutions
• understands moral conflicts and their underlying issues in smart mobility, is able to develop courses of action and make decisions on moral conflicts in smart mobility
• is able to assess the consequences of the use of ICT in smart mobility
• understands policies concerning equity, inclusion and sustainability in transport and mobility
• understands the difference between law and ethics

List of subjects to be presented to the students :

Transport-related subjects :

• Definitions and basic characteristics of various modes of transport
• Transport & IT development trends
• GIS in transport
• Collection of transport data
• Basics of traffic engineering Ethics and law-related subjects:
• Characteristics of Computing and Computer Ethics
• Ethics of Algorithms • Ethics of Cyber-Physical Systems
• Thinking tools for decision-making
• Professionalism and Codes of Ethics
• Ethics and Law: relation between ethics and law; whistle blowing
• Legal aspects: legal framework in mobility; personal rights and obligations
• Transport policy and equity
• Extent of transport’s influence on environment – ethical aspect