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Transport Engineering and Planning – (M.Sc.)
University of Salford
School of Computing, Science & Engineering
| Location: | Salford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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This is a programme that takes students from a wide range of relevant backgrounds and provides them with a strong grounding in the management, engineering and planning of transport infrastructure.
The postgraduate programme in Transport Engineering and Planning has been running for almost forty years and is recognised as providing a good grounding for students interested in the management, engineering and planning of transport infrastructure. The emphasis of the programmes is on current methodology and practice such that students are able to take up employment with engineering and planning departments of local and central governments, passenger transport executives, transport utilities and transport consultants. The programmes have attracted students from a wide variety of backgrounds including civil engineering, geography, economics, mathematics, physics, business studies and social studies.
Graduates enjoy employment opportunities with:
* Engineering companies
* Planning departments
* Local government
* Public transport utilities
* Transport consultants.
Contents
Course contentThe programme has a modular structure and comprises eight modules: four on Transport Engineering and four on Transport Planning. Full-time students study four modules in each semester, part-time students take the engineering modules in one year and the planning modules in the other year. Students must pass all modules (obtaining 120 credits) to be allowed to proceed to the submission of a dissertation (towards obtaining a further 60 credits). On acquiring the 180 credits, students qualify for the award of the MSc.
Students who obtain the 120 credits from the taught programme but fail to submit a dissertation to the required standard are awarded the Postgraduate Diploma. The Postgraduate Certificate is awarded to students who gain at least 60 credits for the taught programme.
The outline syllabus is as follows:
Transport Planning Principles
* Representation of supply, demand and cost.
* Car-ownership models
* Underlying principles of traffic estimation
* Accessibility
Transport Modelling
* Travel and traffic forecasting and prediction in practice
Integrated Transport Planning
* Transport and spatial development
* Demand management approaches
* Public transport planning
* Implementation of transport policy
Evaluation of Transport Schemes
* Cost Benefit appraisal
* Environmental impact
* Transport impact assessment
Transport Data Collection and Analysis
* Traffic survey design and data collection
* Theory and application of statistical analysis in the transport context
Transport Systems Design
* Geometric design and layout of links and junctions
* Highway pavement design and construction
* Railway engineering
* Transport telematics
* Mass transit systems
* Cycle infrastructure design issues
Analysis of Highway Links and Junctions
* Traffic flow theory
* Highway link capacity
* Analysis and design of road junctions
Traffic Management and Road Safety
* Road Safety
* Traffic Management
* Vehicle Parking
Dissertation The dissertation is expected to represent the equivalent of three months full-time work. Students agree a topic with their supervisor. The topic may be chosen from a list drawn up by the academic staff or, usually in the case of part-time students, may relate to work-related projects.
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Entry requirements
* An appropriate honours degree. A wide variety of first degrees are accepted, including, for example, engineering, science, geography and social science.
* We welcome applications from students with alternative qualifications and/or significant relevant experience, subject to approval through a process of Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL).
* International students must provide evidence of proficiency in English - IELTS 6.5 band score or a score of TOEFL at 550 or above (232 computer based) with a TWE of 4.0 or above are proof of this
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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