Transport and Business Management

Course Overview

These MSc courses are offered jointly with University College London (UCL). They provide a thorough understanding of the movement of people and goods, and of techniques for analysing transport problems and evaluating measures for resolving them. They prepare students for work in the fields of planning, engineering, operations, policy and research. All of our MSc courses are career-orientated and cover both theoretical background and practical design considerations. Lectures are given mainly by full-time staff but important contributions are made by visiting professors and guest lecturers who are eminent industrialists. Many of our students continue their studies to undertake research towards a PhD. Established in 1980, the Intercollegiate MSc in Transport Studies (CTS) at University College London (UCL) and Imperial College London brings together the transport research and graduate training capabilities of the Civil Engineering Departments of the two Colleges and their 30 years experience as leaders in this field of study. The Centre is a single source for the whole range of multidisciplinary transport expertise that the two Departments possess or can offer with input from colleagues elsewhere in London and in the transport profession. The Transport and Business Management course is offered at Imperial College London. Aims and objectives: As a multidisciplinary activity, modern transport is the key to many of the advantages of the industrial era - widespread availability of material goods; choice of scale and location of industrial and commercial activity; choice for individuals of where to live, what activities to engage in and when and where to pursue them; and access to services for both individuals and organisations. The consequent challenge is to enable people in countries and societies of different kinds to benefit from modern transport in ways that are acceptable in the short term and sustainable in the longer term, our objectives are therefore to, Provide a systematic understanding of the causes and motivations of personal travel and goods movement and of the means by which movement takes place. Provide a grounding in techniques for analysing transport problems and developing and implementing policies and measures for resolving such problems. Develop appreciation of the importance and methods of evaluating transport projects, plans and policies, taking into account the need for public consultation and recognising the political, social, commercial and financial issues involved. Produce graduates equipped to pursue careers in industry, the public sector and non-governmental organisations; Provide the basis for the recognition and understanding of the major features of transport; Develop an understanding of how this knowledge may be applied in practice in an economic and environmentally sustainable manner; Foster the acquisition and implementation of broad research and analytical skills; Attract highly motivated students irrespective of race, gender, background and physical disability, from the UK and overseas; Develop new areas of teaching in response to the advance of scholarship and the needs of the community including vocational training; Provide an introduction to the subject for students from other relevant disciplines, In pursuit of these objectives, the Course places emphasis on road and rail transport in the more industrialised countries, whilst recognising the important roles of other forms of transport and interchange with them, and the different context in which transport problems present themselves in less industrialised countries. Subject to this emphasis, the fundamentals are addressed in ways which are relevant to all means of transport and to every kind of society, thus equipping graduates for work in transport planning, engineering, operations, management, policy and research.