Program Overview

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Transport Consultancy Study (BPLN0105)

Key Information

• Faculty: UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
• Teaching department: Bartlett School of Planning
• Credit value: 15
• Restrictions: Places on this module are limited to a strict cap. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to students from the MSc Transport and City Planning and MSc Sustainable Urbanism.

Alternative Credit Options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

Content

This module considers real-life transport or accessibility-related difficulties and the steps necessary to formulate a credible plan to address the problem. The key output of this module will be a consultancy study, developed as a group project, addressing a real-life transport or mobility-related difficulty through the development of a strategy incorporating a range of potential options and a preferred course of action. This will consider analysis and framing of the problem itself, consider the wider vision and imperatives of an area, the generation of credible alternative options to be appraised to provide a preferred option.

Teaching Delivery

The module is delivered through a combination of lectures, project-based tutorials, and site visits related to the consultancy task being addressed.

Indicative Topics

Indicative lecture topics - based on module content in 2024/25, subject to possible changes:

• Module Introduction
• Site Visit to Study Area
• Baseline Evaluation
• Seminar: SUSTRANS School Streets programme
• Interim Presentations to Client
• Part B Proposal Development
• Developing Active Travel in Outer London
• Proposal development
• Project presentations

Module Aims/Objectives

The aims of the module are to (a) provide an understanding of the process of transport strategy development, (b) understand how to develop a vision, objectives, a strategy with key policy measures and projects, and project appraisal, and (c) develop consultancy study development skills, including a level of participation.

Additional Costs

There will be one site visit within London which students will be required to cover the cost of travel for.

Module Deliveries for 2026/27 Academic Year

Intended Teaching Term: Term 2

• Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and Assessment

Mode of Study

• In person

Methods of Assessment

• 100% Group activity (2 assessments)

Mark Scheme

• Numeric Marks

Other Information

Number of Students on Module in Previous Year

• 33

Module Leader

• Dr Iqbal Hamiduddin

Last Updated

This module description was last updated on 10th March 2026.