Transport & Planning

In densely populated countries such as the Netherlands hundreds of kilometres of traffic gridlock, air pollution, traffic accidents and delayed public transportation are all part of the daily fare. The MSc track Transport & Planning trains people to play a central role in resolving such problems. T&P engineers, for example, work on clever ideas to manage traffic flows and prevent congestion, they develop public transport systems or develop infrastructural plans. A characteristic of the topics on which they work is that these are often in the news and are high on the political agenda.

Programme
Within this track quantitative approaches to infrastructural planning play a central role, along with the analysis of systems for personal transportation and for road and rail traffic. 
The programme offers a challenging combination of professional practice and state-of-the-art research. Amongst other things you learn:  

• How infrastructural planning is directly linked to economic growth and decline
• How to model environmental activities, analysing and translating them into traffic questions on infrastructural networks
• How to design both individual components and complete networks for road and rail infrastructures
• How to model peoples’ choices, as well as the influence of transport systems on the choice of destination, the form of transport, the route and the departure time
• How to manage traffic flows with, for example, systems for dynamic traffic management
• How you can describe traffic movements mathematically 

In the European Top Five
If you opt for the MSc track Transport & Planning in Delft, you will be studying at one of the top five European traffic research institutes. An institute which strives to bridge the gap between research and practice and which, for this reason, works closely with authorities and companies.

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