SUP-651: Transportation Policy and Planning

Semester: Not Offered

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: Jose Gomez-Ibanez

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day
Meet Day
Review

Description

Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various analytic and managerial problems that are peculiar to this area. The course is organized around seven problems: (1) analyzing the market for a service; (2) costing and pricing; (3) operations management; (4) controlling congestion and pollution; (5) transport and land use; (6) investment evaluation; and (7) the regulation of private carriers. Examples are drawn from both urban and inter-city passenger and freight transportation. One-quarter of the classes are lectures, and three-quarters are case discussions. Prerequisite: Microeconomics at the level of API-101 or API-105 is assumed.

Also offered by the Graduate School of Design as GSD 5302, but not offered in 2012-13.