PORTAL: Promotion of results in transport research and learning

• Unité de recherche: PCRD EU
• Numéro de projet: 99.0433
• Titre du projet anglais: PORTAL: Promotion of results in transport research and learning

Mots-clé (Anglais)

Teaching; learning; education; transport research; dissemination;
Information Processing; Information Systems; Social Aspects; Transport

Autre Numéro de projet (Anglais)

EU project number: 2000-RD.11024

Programme de recherche (Anglais)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.2 Sustainable mobility and intermodality

Description succincte (Anglais)

See abstract

Autres indications (Anglais)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
ETH Zürich
IVT
Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Strassen- u. Eisenbahnbau

Partenaires et organisations internationales (Anglais)

Coordinator: FMG-AMOR, Graz (A)

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

PORTAL aims at exploiting the exiting results from EU research on local and regional transport to generate new teaching materials & improve dissemination of existing materials, for use in leading educational institutions, distance -learning& self-instruction.

Partners: Universities, other education and research institutes, local and transport authorities in 19 European states, who have completed over 70 EU-funded research projects.

Work Plan: Survey demand for and current availability of material based on EU research results. Set an outline for new material.

Produce teaching/ learning material: not fixed courses but flexible small modules for each topic; each available in different forms (language, target group, type of training). Test materials 50 educational sites throughout Europe before finalising.

Output: online database, supported by a central help desk, broadcast-quality audio and video, interactive learning packages and hard-copy visual aids.

Références bases de données (Anglais)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 99.0433