Transport and City Planning MSc/PG Dip

The aim of the MSc is to enable students to work effectively as transport and planning practitioners, moving beyond the ‘disciplinary silos’ usually found in academia and practice. A key feature of the MSc is its integrative design across disciplines, developing a range of different theories and perspectives, with modules linked by common principles.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of six core modules (90 credits), two optional modules (30 credits) and a dissertation/report (60 credits).

A Postgraduate Diploma (120 credits, full-time nine months) is offered.

• Transport Planning and the City
• Transport Planning in Emerging Cities
• Sustainable Urban Development: Key Themes
• Sustainable Urban Development: Project
• Mega Infrastructures as Agents of Change
• Critical Issues in Mega Infrastructure Investments

Choose two from a list which may include the following:

• Public Transport
• Pillars of Planning
• International Planning
• Sustainable Property – Valuation, Investment and Development
• Planning Practices in Europe
• Urban Problems and Problematics
• Spatial Planning
• Preparing Regeneration Projects
• GI Systems and Science
• Data Visualisation
• The Political Ecology of Environmental Change
• Adapting Cities to Climate Change in the Global South

All students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation in transport and city planning of 10,000 words.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, project work, and site visits. Assessment is through examinations, essays, group/individual projects and presentation, and a dissertation.