Services and Infrastructure Planning and Management

The module will help students to be familiar with definition of basic terminologies, services, role of infrastructure in economic development, types of infrastructure, measurement of infrastructure capacity, bases for quantification of demand and supply of various types of infrastructure, Goals and objectives of services and infrastructure planning; Identification and quantification of the casual factors influencing the demand for infrastructure

Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:

• Know urban infrastructure and services needs and standards over the world in general and in developing countries in particular
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the development and evaluation of spatial interventions that are effectively addressing priority problems in services and infrastructure planning and management in urban areas.
• Use appropriate techniques to analyze, critique, but also make a diagnosis and plan services and infrastructure using GIS and make evaluation of alternative scenarios.
• Collect field data relating to urban services and infrastructure and organize them in a proper way for information extraction.
• Use computer and software in services and infrastructure planning as well as in writing a report and use visual equipment.
• Write a well edited report and communicate orally the results to specialist and non specialist audiences
• Act autonomously in application of knowledge in services and infrastructure planning and management, showing the ability to do extended and self-programmed work, locating information to answer questions, working with little supervision or direction and by working in groups.