Transport Planning

Alongside specialist modules, study common modules that will address key issues currently facing transport industry professionals. These provide you with a holistic overview of transport problems and approaches to policy formulation.

Our new Transport Integrated Project module enables you to employ project management scenario-based learning. You will cover a range of transport disciplines and be supervised by experts in the field. Join forces with a project team of other students from our other degrees to develop a solution to a ‘real-world’ transport problem, identifying how your own interests need to interact effectively with others to achieve an effective solution.

You’ll gain a range of specialist knowledge and advanced research skills throughout the programme. In your dissertation, you’ll apply these to a project chosen from a wide range of topics. Some topics are suggested and supported by industry, giving you the chance to address a real-world problem and gain experience of working with industry. Your supervisor will support you throughout the process of developing your dissertation topic.

If you choose to study part-time, you’ll study over a longer period and take fewer modules in each year. The part-time programme is flexible – the quickest route takes 24 months, but you can take up to 36 months if you choose to spend longer working on your dissertation.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Understanding Travel Behaviour 15 credits
• Shaping Future Transport Systems 15 credits
• Principles of Transport Modelling 15 credits
• Transport Data Collection and Analysis 15 credits
• Sustainable Spatial Planning and Analysis 15 credits
• Transport Dissertation 60 credits
• Transport Integrated Project 15 credits

Optional modules

• Funding for Projects 15 credits
• Green Logistics 15 credits
• Analysing Transport and Society 15 credits
• Public Transport Planning and Management 15 credits
• System Dynamics: Modelling Policy 15 credits
• Traffic Management 15 credits
• Global Transferability of Policies, Models and Methods 15 credits
• Transport and Public Health 15 credits
• Choice Modelling and Stated Preference Survey Design 15 credits
• Traffic Network Modelling 15 credits
• Transport Investment Appraisal 15 credits
• Transport and Urban Pollution 15 credits
• Transport in Development 15 credits
• Road Safety Management 15 credits

For more information on typical modules, read Transport Planning MSc Full Time in the course catalogue

For more information on typical modules, read Transport Planning MSc Part Time in the course catalogue

Learning and teaching

Postgraduate study involves a range of teaching methods, supported by independent learning. In addition to the traditional lecture and seminar formats, you’ll experience a blend of workshops, computer exercises, practical sessions, directed reading, reflective journal, student-led discussions, fieldwork and tutorials.

Assessment

Assessment is equally varied and can include coursework essays, case-study reports, group assignments, posters, presentations and exams.

Student profile

“The lectures and seminars always present fresh issues on transport and deliver them in a way that is easy to understand.”

Santhi Nugraheni, MSc Transport Economics

Alumni profile

“The transport programme here is interdisciplinary in nature and coupled with this are the excellent academic and service facilities, designed to meet student needs no matter their culture.” Read more

Eric Tetteh, MSc Transport Planning