MSc Transportation Planning and Engineering: Behaviour at University of Southampton

Explore the relationships between transport systems, the people who use and operate them, and the wider world, with our MSc Transportation Planning and Engineering: Behaviour. This course offers modules in human factors in transport engineering, and the interactions between transport, energy systems, and the environment. You can study this course on a full-time, part-time or distance-learning basis.

Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences  |  Department: Civil engineering  |  Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Southampton, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The course is made up of 2 semesters of taught modules and a summer period devoted to your individual project, from which you produce your dissertation. Your lectures take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week. The course includes a 2 day residential field trip.

Career pathways

Graduates commonly work in sectors including information and communication, education, finance and insurance, public administration and defence, scientific and technical, manufacturing, transport. Careers directly related to the course include consulting civil engineer, contracting civil engineer, geotechnical engineer, transport planner, highways engineer, university lecturer, coastal engineer, flood risk officer.

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