The generic theme of your assignment is “Sustainable Mass Transport in Urban Environments” and could be used as the reflective title for your submission.
Sustainable Mass Transport in Urban Environments
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
· Your individual coursework should be written in the form of a reflective report (aim to make writing style and layout professional, formal (reflective research journal article)
· Suggested page set-up for Word documents: Calibri 12pt or Arial 10pt, 1.15 or 1.25 line spacing, 4pt to 8pts between paragraphs.
· The report should not exceed 3500 words (excluding references)
SUBMISSION LEVEL REQUIRED TO PASS THIS MSC/MBA LEVEL MODULE
· Referenced correctly, identifying your sources to add weight and validity to your work.
· Each source must be appropriately analysed for its findings rather than merely repeated or quoted.
· There is a clear structure.
· Use a clear comparative framework to link the different sources of information.
· Addresses issues of bias, consistency, validity, reliability, and generalisability.
· Has a clear introduction and a supported conclusion.
· Includes images and tables to support your arguments and findings (mandatory; and appropriately referenced)
Please remember that clear layout and presentation of your report matters. The marker is not going to ‘read between the lines’ in order to find the answer. Please use clear headings, structure and layout.
As it is research (secondary data) driven submission, quality and content is directly related to the quality of data and sources you are using. Therefore, please aim to use peer reviewed journals. Using non-academic sources (eg Wikipedia.org, private blogs or similar) will be HEAVILY penalised.
As it is a postgraduate level submission, you are expected to deliver a report that is characterised by:
– Critical presentation of a literature review
– Is NOT information/definitions/ other sources opinion driven only (informative character only)
– Is based on your own original manipulation and compilation of the referenced data (preferably presented in a form of tables graphs and diagrams)
– Each concept/data and graph is sufficiently critically evaluated, discussed and concluded by yourself in your own words (majority of the text)
Most importantly, the report represents your own, original reflection. Your opinions really matter. It can be very controversial (unless it is a logical outcome of thinking process presented or analysis conducted). The reflective project and concepts are yours and should reflect your thinking. Though the strength of your statements is directly related to the strength, value of the gathered supporting information. Please do not forget that all sources of information you use should always be acknowledged (in ALL chapters).
Task
The generic theme of your assignment is “Sustainable Mass Transport in Urban Environments” and could be used as the reflective title for your submission.
Assignment Brief
Urban transport has for long been identified as a major obstacle standing against sustainable development. Congestion, pollution, and time lost are only a few examples of the many stressors that impact urban communities whether economically, socially or environmentally.
To mitigate these stressors, while conforming to the Sustainable Developments Goals as defined by the United Nations, many cities around the world have opted to develop their own “sustainable transport systems”. Examples include cities like Hong Kong, Stockholm, London, Seoul, Paris, Bogota, Dubai and many more. Sustainable transport in these cities has become a world class norm to learn from and replicate.
Your assignment will be to examine the priciples of sustainable transport in urban environments, critically evaluating its advantages and analysing the organisational and managerial factors that could contribute to its success or failure. By choosing one particular city as a case study, make specific references to the social, economic as well as cultural and technological barriers it had to overcome in order to reap the benefits that result from implementing such a system.
Please conduct research based investigation into your topic. Aim to critically evaluate and contextualise your chosen case against environmental sustainability paradigms and models.
Critically evaluate organisational/management and technological issues from an environmental and sustainability perspective.
Understand, discuss and critically investigate the case issues in context of creating and sustaining environmental management systems. Is the regulation and its realisation in form of products, technologies or services in line with commonly used ones in the industry EMS.
You should present ability to manipulate and compilate your data showing that its value changes (eg same products could be sustainable in small scale, but not in large scale or it vary in different geographical regions). Please apply scenario analysis, comparisons, models and other tools known to you from both engineering and management modules.
Please use given template. Given word count for each section should be used as suggestion, not a target, but please do not exceed 3500 words in total in main body (tables, references, table of contents does not count)
Appropriate referencing is a standard requirement. Not meeting the standard should be heavily penalised (accordingly with the university procedures and code of conduct).
There are five main sections (as shown below in the template) weighted as follows:
Introduction 10 marks
Contextualisation 20 marks
Literature review 25 marks
EMS application 25 marks
Final results 20 marks
List of references and title page have no weighting (but both are required, standards).
On Sustainable Mass Transport in Urban Environments:
Your City as a Case Study
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