Transportation and Planning

Though generalists, MURP students may choose to increase their understanding of certain topics through their choice of electives. Transportation planning focuses on issues and concepts pertaining to transportation planning, a vital component of many urban and metropolitan policy debates. The goal is to familiarize students with the unique role of transportation in urban development, economic growth, social equity, and environmental preservation. Classes range from broad, policy-oriented overviews to focused treatments of specific techniques used in transportation planning. The classes in this focus area span several disciplines, including planning, regional science, economics, management, law, and civil engineering.

Core faculty: Marlon Boarnet, Joseph DiMento, Jean Daniel Saphores, Luis Suarez-Villa.

Affiliated: Michael McNally, Kenneth Small.

Lecturers: Joseph Devoy, Sarah Catz.

Courses include:

• U207 Development Control Law
• U212 Transportation Planning
• U223 Regional Analysis
• U237 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
• U238 Advanced Geographic Systems
• U242 Regional Development Theory
• U275 Transportation and the Environment
• U275 Transportation, Transit and Land use Policy and Planning
• ECON 220AB Statistics and Econometrics
• ECON 223A Discrete Choice Econometrics
• ECON 281 Urban Economics
• ECON282AB Transportation Economics
• CE 220AB Travel Demand Analysis (Civil Engineering)
• CE 221AB Transportation Systems Analysis
• CE225 AB Transportation Planning Models