MSc Intelligent Transport Planning and Engineering

MSc Intelligent Transport Planning and Engineering

The program is designed to meet the increasing demand for transport professionals with advanced skills in sustainable, integrated, and intelligent transportation systems. The program will provide you with the fundamental and advanced engineering knowledge that a modern transportation engineer needs for planning and managing the complex multi-modal transport system. The program is aimed at both the home and overseas market and, in particular, professionals working in the highways, railway, aviation, and the wider transportation infrastructure and systems sector or for students who would wish to work in these sectors. The program is offering not only a natural progression route for engineering graduates who want to enhance their qualifications at the master’s level but is also be suitable for professional town planners and/ or geography students.

Modules

  • Mental Wealth: Professional Life
  • Applied Research and Engineering Practice I
  • Highway and Railway Engineering
  • Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Environmental Sustainable Engineering
  • Soil-Structure Engineering
  • Industrial Placement

This course is also available as a two-year master’s with an industrial placement year. The industrial placement is designed to address the demands of the profession and give students a competitive edge when it comes to their careers. The industrial placement component is for a duration of an academic year.

Employability

Mental Wealth/Professional Life skills are embedded in the program to ensure that graduates are well prepared for existing industries as well as being ready for the Industrial Revolution 4.0 world of tomorrow. The program is aimed at both the home and overseas market and, in particular, students working in the highways, railway, aviation, and the wider transportation infrastructure and systems sector or students who would wish to work in these sectors. There are 32 London boroughs, the nearby District and County Councils, and Transport for London, and Consulting Engineers who all have highway and transportation responsibilities. In addition, there are Consulting Engineers who have sections dealing with Highway Design and Transportation so we are not short of market nearby. There is an acknowledged shortage of skilled civil engineers with the right qualifications and experience. We have designed this course to take advantage of this demand and give you a competitive edge when it comes to your career.