Program Overview

Transport Planning PG Certificate

Overview

The Transport Planning Postgraduate Certificate is a highly practical course that equips practitioners with the technical and critical thinking skills to help shape healthier, safer, more sustainable transport systems and policies.

Course Structure

You will study two core modules and one option module. You will learn through a lively mix of tutorials, seminars, workshops, group projects and independent research – with a focus on interactive discussion.

Core Modules

Transport Policy and Politics

This module introduces you to debates within transport policy and politics past, present and future. It draws on material from different disciplines in placing a range of relevant controversies, ideas and issues within their theoretical, policy and political contexts.

• 20 credits

Transport Economics

Through this module you will examine the application of relevant economic principles to the transport sector, including fundamental topics of transport economics and new frontiers in the field.

• 20 credits

Option Modules

Airline and Airport Management

The module explores the nature of demand for air travel and prospects for the future. It considers the role of economic regulation and impact of deregulation.

• 20 credits

Analysing Transport Data

This module introduces you to the use of secondary quantitative data in the transport context. You will analyse real-life transport datasets, such as police injury data, travel surveys, and Census travel-to-work data.

• 20 credits

Environmental Policy, Assessment and Climate Change

This module provides background on environmental policy and climate change. It sets out the theoretical framework to start with, and then the international context for sustainable development, energy efficiency and climate change.

• 20 credits

Freight Transport and Logistics Services

In this module you will examine the changing market for freight transport and logistics services in a European and increasingly global context.

• 20 credits

Land Use, Planning and Transport

The module focuses on the interaction between transport and land-use, including the effect of land-use on travel patterns and the contribution of transport to development.

• 20 credits

Modifying Transport Behaviour: Theory, Practice and Politics

This module will provide a compelling insight into the state of the art of modifying behaviour in transport, from well-established interventions (such as speed limits) to relatively new ones (such as personal travel planning).

• 20 credits

Streets, Places and Active Transport

This module focuses on traffic and streets, where traffic refers to a range of urban transport modes. It covers movement and place functions in urban contexts, including tensions within and between each.

• 20 credits

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of a lower second class honours degree (2:2) in a relevant subject area.
• Any relevant transport experience would further enhance your application.
• Part-time students should normally be employed within a relevant sector of transport for the duration of the course.
• If your first language is not English, you should have an IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.5 in writing and no element below 6.0.

Fees and Funding

• UK tuition fee: £3,375 (Price per 20-credit module)
• International tuition fee: £5,355 (Price per 20-credit module)

Teaching and Assessment

• Teaching methods focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application.
• Assessments include practical and coursework elements.

Research Groups

• Active Travel Academy
• Mobilities and Transport Research Group

Supporting You

• Study support – workshops, 1-2-1 support and online resources to help improve your academic and research skills
• Personal tutors – support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential
• Student advice team – provide specialist advice on a range of issues including funding, benefits and visas
• Extra-curricular activities – volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, student events and more

Course Location

• Marylebone Campus, Central London

Other Transport Planning Courses

• Transport Planning Postgraduate Diploma
• Transport Planning MSc

Related Courses

• Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc
• Air Transport Planning and Management MSc
• Urban and Regional Planning MA