Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure Planning
This concentration explores the roles of transportation and other capital infrastructure systems in shaping urban and metropolitan development patterns in the U.S. and around the world. It focuses foremost on urban highway, public transit, and non-motorized transportation systems and their connections to sustainable, livable and economically-productive development forms; and secondly on water, energy, and communications infrastructure. It covers initial planning and development topics (such as right-of-way and system planning issues), linkages to urban and economic development issues (such as those surrounding high-speed rail), and ongoing finance and management topics such as pricing, equity-of-access, and value-creation. Students who complete the SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING Concentration work for local and municipal governments, for state highway departments and metropolitan transit operators, for transportation and infrastructure planning consultants, for system developers and utilities, and for policy and planning organizations advocating more sustainable transportation and development choices.
Required Courses:
CPLN 550 Introduction to Transportation Planning (Fall First Year)
CPLN 650 Transportation Planning Methods (Fall Second Year)
Concentration Electives (take at least two):
CPLN 651 Infrastructure Planning and Finance (Fall)
CPLN 652 Regional Infrastructure Seminar (Fall)
CPLN 654 Urban Transit Systems and Techniques (Spring)
CPLN 750 Advanced Transportation Seminar (Spring)
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