Expanding Transportation Education Across the Academy: The Sustainable City Year Program
Expanding Transportation Education Across the Academy: The Sustainable City Year Program
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扩大整个学院的交通教育：可持续城市年计划
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2013
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Nico Larco
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Marc Schlossberg;Nico Larco
交通运输机构正在努力应对新的和不熟悉的问题，从解决气候变化等重大问题到关注可达性，其中土地利用、城市设计和主动交通模式更为重要。这些挑战是在应付这些挑战所需的资源匮乏和许多机构工作人员即将退休的时候出现的。与此同时，大学继续吸引新一代的学生，他们不仅对这些新概念感到舒适和熟悉，而且渴望一个拥抱这种多学科环境的工作场所。一种包括通常与交通无关的领域的多学科方法似乎对于在复杂的城市环境中实现可持续交通的蓬勃发展至关重要。俄勒冈大学的可持续城市年计划（SCYP）解决了这一复杂问题，每年将10个或更多学科的25门课程与交通和其他可持续发展项目联系起来，这些项目由不同城市的城市工作人员每学年确定。每年，约有25名教师和500名学生付出超过8万小时的努力，帮助当地城市解决棘手的问题。学生将获得专业的实践经验，有机会从多个学科学习，并了解复杂的交通问题需要不同的技能和视角来解决。本文介绍了SCYP，重点介绍了一些“非传统”交通专业学生参与的交通专业项目，并为全国各地的高等教育提供了一种新的模式，可以帮助培养下一代交通人才。
Transportation agencies are grappling with new and unfamiliar issues from addressing big problems like climate change to focusing on accessibility, where land use, urban design, and active transportation modes are more important. These challenges come at a time when the resources necessary to meet them are scarce and many agency staff members are reaching retirement. At the same time, Universities continue to attract a new generation of students who are not only comfortable and familiar with these new concepts, but are eager for a workplace that embraces this multi-disciplinary environment. A multi-disciplinary approach that includes fields not normally associated with transportation would seem to be critical to making sustainable transportation thrive in the complex environment of the city. The Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) at the University of Oregon addresses this complexity head on by annually connecting twenty-five courses across ten or more disciplines with transportation and other sustainability projects identified by city staff of a different city each academic year. Each year, about 25 faculty and 500 students give over 80,000 hours of effort to help local cities move forward on vexing issues. Students gain professional hands-on experience, an opportunity to learn from multiple disciplines, and an understanding that complex transportation issues require a diverse set of skill sets and perspectives to solve. This paper describes SCYP, highlights a few transportation-specific projects that “non-traditional” transportation students take on, and presents a new model for higher education across the country that can help train the next generation transportation workforce.