Our MSc in Sustainable Transport Planning emphasises practical and real world learning. You'll acquire essential skills valued by employers to design sustainable, equitable, and data-driven transport systems. You will learn mobility management, behavioural analysis, and planning techniques to address global challenges including climate change and equitable urban development through efficient public and city transport networks.
Taught by leading academics across Engineering, Geography, and Business, this course explores transport policy, travel behaviour, urban planning, intelligent transport systems, modelling techniques, and data analytics.
You will dive into the core principles of sustainable cities and transportation, while mastering specialist techniques in transport modelling, forecasting, and intelligent transport systems. Through hands-on learning and expert-led sessions, you’ll gain the skills to shape smarter, greener mobility solutions.
Course Structure This course will run over 12 months in a full-time-mode. There is also scope to undertake the programme on a part-time basis. While the exact content may change, here’s what you can expect to study each semester. This is based on a full time Masters course.
During the first semester, you’ll dive into the core principles of sustainable cities and transportation, while mastering specialist techniques in transport modelling, forecasting, and intelligent transport systems. Through hands-on learning and expert-led sessions, you’ll gain the skills to shape smarter, greener mobility solutions.
In this semester, you take core modules that develop your expertise in quantitative methods and your understanding of transport policy. You will also choose an optional module that enables you to deepen your understanding of transport engineering and design, supply chains and logistics, or planning policy and practice.
During the final semester, you will apply your learning to lead an independent research dissertation, supervised by the programme team.
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To gain a place at Birmingham you will need to meet our general entry requirements, as well as those specific to your course. Your application will be reviewed by the course’s Admissions Tutor, who will decide whether your application should receive an offer.
English language requirements If you are an international student, you will need to demonstrate you have a suitable level of English proficiency, usually through the form of an IELTS or equivalent qualification or a Presessional English course.
For this course we require IELTS 6.0 with no less than 5.5 in any band, which is equivalent to:
If you have a conditional offer for Birmingham where English is a requirement, you can take a Presessional English course as an alternative to retaking IELTS or a similar qualification. We offer on-campus courses all year round starting from September including additional online courses in the summer term. Teaching takes place in small classes with no more than 18 students to maximise class participation.