Green public transportation is a multidisciplinary subject which focuses designing the unimodal or intermodal public transportation system in the cities, energy usage in these systems, information systems to gather information related to possible passengers. Green public transportation is a common subject for all countries and this will be the most interested technological area not only for developed countries but also developing countries. All cities will transform their traditional transportation systems to cutting-edge high technology transportation systems. So, in order to teach the future green public transportation systems in the future smart cities, we prepare one-week teaching program made up of 7 teaching modules and one supporting module: • Smart mobility and other "smart" parts assuring green future • Energy Related Smart Grids • Green Vehicles and Green Public Transportation Network Design • Intermodal Green Public Transport Planning • Information Systems and Technologies for Green Public transportation • Economics of Green Public Transportation Systems • Entrepreneurship Opportunities Considering Smart City Public Transportation The supporting module is “Innovative Curriculum Development for Smart City Public Transportation” which help us to develop an innovative curriculum for our program and use innovative teaching and evaluating methodologies in our 7 modules. We prepare one-day course syllabuses for first five modules and half-day course syllabuses for the last two modules which include the learning outcomes, innovative teaching and evaluation methodologies, outline and other related information. As a teaching methodology we use; • Presentations, short videos for theoretical information about the module subject, • Case Studies, • Simple Simulation Games, • In-class activities, • Pre-after questionnaires. Our target groups and objectives; Students: Today’s graduate/undergraduate students will face with job opportunities which require multidisciplinary knowledge related to green public transportation in future smart cities. This requires a multidisciplinary knowledge about green public transportation that we aim to teach during our project. Stakeholders: We are planning to increase awareness and capacity building of the stakeholders (such as people from vehicle production companies, data analysts, engineers, people from municipalities who will be the end users and policy makers of green public transportation systems) about the general perspective of green public transportation systems in order to prepare them for the future smart cities. Universities: Each module has the potential to be a single course for the related major and minor programs at the universities. Our modules as a whole can be a secondary field program for the universities which includes public transportation related subjects for future smart cities. Teaching assistants in the project will have the opportunity to focus on green public transportation in smart cities which is a new and very popular area of study. Academicians who prepare the project are expected to attend conferences and publish articles about their modules to increase their visibility. Participant academicians will improve their knowledge about the project subject and have the opportunity to communicate with other related professors during teaching program and new joint projects may be initiated. Entrepreneurs: There are many new job opportunities for the entrepreneurs related with future green public transportation systems. We will inform the people who are willing to be entrepreneurs in near future. We include the partner universities who are from developing countries that have dynamic economies and young population. There are 6 partners from 4 countries. There will be 19 members (academicians, teaching assistants and supporting professors) involved in the project. We aim to teach 20 students, 10 stakeholders, 10 entrepreneurs from each partner country so that 80 students, 40 stakeholder and 40 entrepreneurs will be taught by the end of project. By completion of project the following outputs will be provided; • A curriculum for one-week teaching program • 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 modules, • 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.
We wanted to increase the awareness and knowledge level of the learners (target groups) about future green public transportation systems in the future smart cities by preparing one-week teaching program. The target groups and objectives were: Students will face with job opportunities that require multidisciplinary knowledge related to green public transportation in future smart cities that we aim to teach. Stakeholders: We planned to increase awareness and capacity building of the stakeholders about green public transportation systems in order to prepare them for future smart cities. Universities: Each module has the potential to be a single course for the related major and minor programs. Our modules as a whole can be a secondary field program for the related faculties. Teaching assistants and academicians in the project may attend conferences and publish articles to increase their visibility. Participant academicians may improve their knowledge about the project subject and have the opportunity to communicate with other related professors and new joint projects may be initiated. Entrepreneurs: We planned to inform the people who are willing to be entrepreneurs in the near future of smart cities.
The share of transportation in energy usage in the cities is very high. Authorities seek sustainable and green public transportation systems when they plan the future of the cities. Green public transportation is a multidisciplinary subject that focuses on designing the unimodal or intermodal public transportation system in the cities, energy usage in these systems, and information systems to gather information related to possible passengers. So, to support energy consumption solutions, in the scope of the project, we aimed to develop a one-week multidisciplinary training program made up of 7 teaching modules in order to increase the knowledge level and also raise awareness about green public transportation in smart cities for different target groups such as students, potential entrepreneurs, and employees of municipalities.