Transport Planning and the Environment MSc at University of Leeds

If you are a numerate graduate who wants a smart track to employment in a rapidly expanding sector addressing the environmental impacts of transport, or a practitioner who wants insight into best-practice research to accelerate your career, this Masters is for you.

Learn the cutting edge data collection and analytical skills to translate your passion for improving the air quality of our cities and the wellbeing of your fellow citizens into a reality.

Be taught by researchers who are shaping the national and international environmental transport agenda – members of our team advise European and national governments on emissions control.

Study on a course that is designed in collaboration with industry, and covers transport and urban pollution; transport and public health; road safety management; green logistics; traffic network modelling; system dynamics: modelling policy; and global transferability in policy-making.

In particular gain:

• Inside knowledge of how diverse data sources can be used to improve government policy making
• Fluency in the design of sophisticated models to design traffic systems and pollution controls to reduce harm to people and the environment
• Hands on experience, using state-of-the-art monitoring tools:
  • Measuring vehicle emissions and evaluating the data
  • Analysing and shaping policies to reduce air traffic pollution.