City University launches new Transport Strategy and Systems Masters

Course will be offered from September 2011

City University London is offering a new Masters in Transport Strategy and Systems to help create a new generation of cross-disciplinary transport professionals.

The new professionals will be in demand to develop the innovative and sustainable transport systems required around the world to reduce emissions and still meet future demand for mobility and trade.

The new course will be offered from September 2011 and has been created in consultation with senior representatives from business, government and professional bodies, who acknowledge the need for more strategic staff development.

The Masters will address a range of emerging themes including the need for previously siloed freight and passenger transport modes to be better integrated with each other and wider urban infrastructure, the growth of smart and low carbon technologies and how these can be put to best use in transport domains and the development and implementation of energy and emissions policies.

It has been designed for transport professionals with some years’ experience who want to broaden their strategic insight and step up to senior or consultancy roles and other young professionals such as lawyers, systems architects or asset managers who wish to specialise in transport.

The new Masters addresses responses to both changing social needs and new technology options for decarbonisation, by bringing together expertise from the University’s School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, School of Informatics and The City Law School.

The course will be taught in a modular format, enabling professionals to complete it part-time in up to two years. Their studies will be guided by academics and visiting practitioners specialising in fields such as contract law, systems engineering, transport emissions, management and leadership, informatics design and strategic decision-making.

Jeremy Blake, Manager, UK and Ireland, at global consultants, GHD, said: "We want people who can fully realise their potential and we regularly find that even excellent candidates are missing a good understanding of the connections between technology and commerce."

Further information:
City University London - Transport Strategy and Systems MSc