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Transportation Planning
The Transportation Planning
specialization prepares students to for involvement in the dynamic process
of the movement of people and goods. This program provides practical
tools needed to put systems in place for accommodating transportation flow.
Students gain understanding of the external effects inherent in planning
transportation facilities and operations. Transportation planning covers a
wide array of topics including interaction with land use, economic
development, transportation demand, sustainability, safety and security,
intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and context-sensitive solutions.
The field of transportation planning needs a
variety of specialists with different strengths, skills, and areas of
expertise. Professionals with design abilities can shape neighborhoods in
dimensions beyond static images by creating the systems needed to
accommodate the dynamic flow of people and goods through the different
times of days and seasons. Quantitatively-oriented demand modelers
use advanced choice modeling and statistical analysis to estimate and
forecast demand for transportation facilities. People who study
policy and externalities shape local, national, and international practices
that touch on such sensitive issues as the rights to privacy surrounding
red light cameras and vehicle tracking through GPS. Employment
opportunities can take transportation planners into local, state, and
national government positions; into regional visioning at metropolitan
planning organizations (which have their roots in a mandate for regional
planning in order to receive federal transportation funds); to private
consulting firms with expertise in transportation planning and engineering;
among private transportation firms, such as airlines, trucking companies,
and railroads; into advocacy groups promoting environmentally friendly and
socially equitable transportation systems; or, into a number of other
smaller ventures that require specialized understanding of how to
accommodate and facilitate the movement of people and goods.
 Elective courses
are offered in the City and Regional Planning program with complementary
courses in the Civil Engineering program. Future course offerings in the
Planning program might cover creativity in transportation, public transit, non-motorized
(pedestrian and bicycling) transportation, and the relationship between
cities and airports. A joint program leading to an additional
master's degree in Civil Engineering is under development.
CE 412/612 Transportation/Land Use Planning
CRP 889 Selected Topics in Planning
CRP 890 Directed Studies in City and Regional
Planning
CE 311 Transportation Engineering Planning and
Design (undergraduate course)
CE 610 Traffic Engineering Operations
(prerequisite: CE 311 or permission of the instructor)
For further information regarding
transportation planning visit: http://www.clemson.edu/transportation
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