Urban Transport MSc

This programme offers a comprehensive academic approach to a career in one of the most salient and pressing issues in contemporary urban areas; how to provide safe, inclusive, environmentally friendly and efficient transport systems. The degree is designed to ensure that you become familiar with multiple approaches to planning and managing urban transport systems. The programme will provide you with the theory and methods as well as practical knowledge to be employed in governmental organisations and private sector consultancies.<br/><br/>**WHY THIS PROGRAMME**<br/><br/><br/>- This programme will help you understand the broad range of stakeholders in city planning and urban transport systems and the connections to other vital sectors in cities such as energy, environment, housing, land use, economic development, and labour markets to comprehensively understand policies and planning processes to reduce congestion, air pollution, road fatalities and lack of access.<br/><br/><br/>- The focus will be on multiple modes of urban transport – roads, public transport, active transport, emerging shared and intermodal transport, and the use of information technology in transport, enabling you to design highly innovative urban transport solutions in both developed and emerging country contexts.<br/><br/><br/>- You will acquire specialist knowledge and methods to analyse cities and transport using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), statistical and visualisation approaches and other planning software and tools. These will allow you to develop city and transport plans and policies, conduct environmental and other impact evaluation, and to undertake a wide variety of geographical and market analysis.<br/><br/><br/>- You will benefit from the programme’s strong connection with the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), which was funded recently by UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, and with which all academic staff in the MSc are involved.<br/><br/><br/>- An optional field trip to London will provide you with an insight into the complex socio-economic dynamics of city building and design through visits to high profile real estate, planning and regeneration projects. You will have the opportunity to both meet and speak with senior industry professionals and policy-makers involved in the delivery of major urban developments. Past trips have included visits to The Shard, Olympic Park, Crossrail, Battersea Power Station.<br/><br/><br/>**PROGRAMME STRUCTURE**<br/><br/>You will take seven core courses and one optional course. Key courses on transport will be followed by lab sessions where practical lessons on the use of highly specialised software will be given in the form of either independent or group projects. This approach will help you to not only acquire theoretical knowledge but also to apply their knowledge to real world problems with actual data. A cross-disciplinary course approach will ensure you learn industry-specific skills in both transport planning and engineering and allows you to focus more heavily on either of the two strands of the programme. <br/><br/>You will be expected submit essays and lab reports as part of the their course assessment and a dissertation at the end of the programme.<br/><br/>**Core Courses**<br/>PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF GIS<br/>TRANSPORT PLANNING METHODS<br/>TRANSPORT STUDIES<br/>QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS (SEMESTER 1)<br/><br/>**Optional Courses may include:**<br/>BIG DATA AND URBAN ANALYTICS<br/>PROGRAMMING TOOLS FOR URBAN ANALYTICS<br/>SPATIAL PLANNING STRATEGIES<br/>SUSTAINABLE URBAN FUTURES (10)<br/>URBAN ANALYTICS GROUP PROJECT