MSc Transport Planning
Transport Planners play a key role in ensuring that transport systems are efficient and equitable. To do so they need to understand the core principles, techniques and concepts that underpin the discipline. Compulsory modules ensure that all students, whatever their background, have a solid foundation including policy, economics, planning, modelling and data analysis. Optional modules then allow for specialisation and expertise in specific areas.
The programme is designed for students from a wide range of backgrounds and equips them for a professional career in transport. It engages with a highly applied and practical subject, which is also academically rigorous and challenging.
Students learn to:
- understand how and why differing transport policies work and the relationship to wider social policy
- analyse different perspectives on transport and their underlying assumptions
- collect, analyse and present transport data
- model the impacts of a range of interventions
- assess future transport demand and its impacts
- design and implement objective-led strategies.
| Transport Planning & Policy Principles of Transport Modelling Understanding Travel Behaviour Transport Data Collection & Analysis Sustainable Land-Use & Transport Planning Dissertation |
Analysing Transport & Society Global Issues in Transport Green Logistics Public Transport Planning & Management Safety of Road Transport Choice Modelling and Stated Preference Survey Design Traffic Management Transport in Development Transport Investment Appraisal Transport & Urban Pollution Traffic Network Modelling Funding for Projects |
Students study compulsory modules plus three optional modules. All optional modules are offered subject to a minimum level of demand and thus not all modules may run in any given year. Please contact us for further details.
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Teaching, learning and assessment methods
Postgraduate study involves a range of teaching methods, supported by independent learning. In addition to the traditional lecture and seminar formats, students experience a blend encompassing workshops, computer exercises, practical sessions, directed reading, reflective journal, student-led discussions and tutorials. Assessment is equally varied and can include coursework essays, case-study reports, group assignments, posters, presentations and exams. Fieldwork also forms an important part of the learning experience and ranges from half-day local site visits to a week-long European field trip.
