Author(s): |
Yen-Chun Jim Wu, Dept of Business Management, National Sun Yat-sen University Chung-Cheng Lu, Graduate Institute of Information and Logistics Management, National Taipei Uni. of Tech. Taih-Cherng Lirn, Dept. of Shipping & Transportation Management, National Taiwan Ocean University Chih-Hung Yuan, Dept of Business Management, National Sun Yat-sen University |
Abstract: |
The purpose of this
study is analyzed the public content on the websites of targeted universities
to determine their commitment to educating the world about sustainable
transportation. We created a list of academic organizations based on the
compendium of papers from the Transportation Research Board’s 2012 annual meeting.
Then we analyzed the content from the public websites of these organizations to
distinguish differences in the way universities in North America and Europe
designed courses related to sustainable transport. After analyzing information
from about 5,000 such courses, we found that most of them were worth3 credits,
more courses were offered for graduate students than for undergraduates,
lecturing was the most common teaching method, the most commonly offered course
was Transportation Engineering, and, on average, North American universities
offered more sustainable transport courses than their European counterparts. Finally,
the environmental issue was emphasized and discussed far more than the economic
and social issue.Our findings suggest diverse differences in
sustainability-related curriculum design from transport schools of different
backgrounds. This is first article try to provide a holistic picture of the
current state of sustainable transport, based on an exploratory empirical study
of the world’s major transport schools.
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