Transport Engineering, Planning and Management MSc

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We have a multidisciplinary approach to teaching. You'll engage with fellow students across all key civil engineering disciplines. This offers a rich and diverse learning experience.

Our teaching covers a broad range of subjects and typically consists of:

• lectures
• seminars
• practical sessions including:
• transport-related software training
• presentations
• debates
• group work including:
• varied coursework assignments
• surveys
• research activity
• reports
• video production

You'll be taught directly by industry. You'll gain the key technical skills required in the sector allowing you to put theory into practice.

Depending on your modules, you'll be assessed through a combination of:

• Aural examination
• Case study
• Computer assessment
• Professional skills assessments
• Oral presentation
• Practical lab report
• Portfolio
• Problem-solving exercises
• Report
• Written examination
• Written exercise

Your teaching and learning is also supported by Canvas. Canvas is a Virtual Learning Environment. You'll use Canvas to submit your assignments and access your:

• module handbooks
• course materials
• groups
• course announcements and notifications
• written feedback

Throughout your studies, you’ll have access to support from:

• peers
• academics
• personal tutors
• our University Student Services Team
• student representatives

You'll also be assigned an academic member of staff. They will be your personal tutor throughout your time with us. They can help with academic and personal issues.

Professor Elisabetta Cherchi

Professor of Transport

Degree Programme Director

Areas of expertise:

• discrete choice analysis
• microeconomic derivation of behavioural models and bounded rationality (integration with psychology and social effects)
• decision-making process, preference formation and dynamic evolution, the effect of habit/inertia
• data collection (revealed and stated preference data, short and long panel data, focus groups, real and virtual experiments)
• project evaluation (user benefits)

Professor Margaret Carol Bell CBE

Science City Professor of Transport and the Environment

Areas of expertise:

• traffic and environment monitoring
• traffic modelling management
• traffic control

Roger Bird

Senior Lecturer in Highway Engineering

Areas of expertise:

• highway geometry, design standards, safety and consistency
• cycle behaviour and infrastructure design
• road pavement materials, construction and environmental LCA
• traffic management at highway incidents

Professor Phil Blythe

Professor of Transport

Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport (DfT)

Areas of expertise:

• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
• electromobility
• connected and autonomous vehicles
• Smart Cities, Big Data and Internet of Things

Dr Dilum Dissanayake
Lecturer in Transport Modelling, Planning and Management

Areas of expertise:

• travel behaviour analysis with attention to behaviour change:
• sustainable mobility
• shared mobility
• electric mobility
• travel demand modelling and forecasting:
• investigating transport user choices on modes and routes
• road user safety:
• child pedestrians
• driver and pedestrian perceptions on road safety
• traffic incident analysis
• developing country research:
• both road safety
• travel behaviour
• transport policy
• transport modelling applications:
• applications of discrete choice modelling methods (RP, SP and RP_SP)
• data factoring and clustering approaches
• Structural Equations Modelling
• Generalised Linear Modelling
• Hazard Based Duration Modelling
• Bayesian Networks

Dr Paul Goodman
Lecturer in Intelligent Transport Systems

Areas of expertise:

• intelligent transport systems
• road traffic and environmental pollution
• Noise, Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases modelling

Dr Neil Thorpe

Lecturer in Transport Studies

Areas of expertise:

• traffic management and road safety
• technologies for sustainable transport
• sustainable design education in civil engineering

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