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Chair of Integrated Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering / Chair of Transport Ecology
TU Dresden supports four South Asian universities in the Erasmus+ project LBS2ITS in establishing and further developing higher education in transport and traffic sciences.
Sri Lanka faces many challenges in the field of transport. Solid transport concepts as well as good education in the field of transport and mobility should help to achieve higher standards and a better quality of life. This requires, among other things, high-quality higher education for transport experts and geodesists in the Asian country. This is the focus of the Erasmus+ project "LBS2ITS - Location-based Services to Intelligent Transport Systems", in which transport and traffic scientists from TU Dresden (TUD) are involved.
Together with the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the Technische Universität Wien (TUW), which is the overall project leader, the Dresden researchers will support four universities in Sri Lanka for more than 3 years in developing new study programmes and curricula for higher education in the country at the eastern tip of the Indian subcontinent - see article dated 30 March 2021.
Impressions from the first Train-the-Teachers course in the LBS2ITS project in Sri Lanka
Following the project kick-off in March 2021, the first "Train-the-Teachers course" to train teachers at the University of Moratuwa has now taken place on site in Sri Lanka from 28 March to 1 April 2022. The one-week course focuses on the topic "Transport System Planning for Smart and Liveable Cities". It was led by Prof. Günther Retscher (Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the TU Vienna) as well as Prof. Regine Gerike, Dipl.-Ing. Elke Clarus and Prof. Udo Becker - all 3 from the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences at theTU Dresden.
In addition to interactive lectures and group work, the participants had the opportunity to work on self-defined problems during the course. Problem-solving skills and interaction were practised to prepare problem-based learning courses in the modified curricula of the respective partner universities.
Specific objectives of the LBS2ITS project
1. Establish a regional cooperation network in LBS to ITS education
2. Modernisation of existing and development of new LBS and Smart Transportation course modules
3. Upskill teaching staff through targeted training on the project theme
4. Upgrading equipment, including digital resource kits for interaction with students
5. Strengthen problem-based learning (PBL) and introduce e-learning tools
6. Promoting interaction and collaboration between universities and other relevant stakeholders
7. Increasing the reach and expanding the employment opportunities of students in national and international markets
8. Implementing quality assurance procedures in education
Contact at TU Dresden
Prof. Regine Gerike
Head of Chair of Integrated Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering,
"Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
E-Mail: regine.gerike@tu-dresden.de