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Transportation has emerged as one of the highest priority issues for policymakers, employers, and citizens. The certificate program enhances the education of current and future transportation professionals to respond to this challenging environment. It builds upon existing programs in a variety of disciplines offered from four colleges and two campuses in the ASU system. The program approaches the subject from an integrated systems perspective and exposes students to a range of transportation alternatives and the interrelationships between transportation and economics, social equity, land use, technology, policy, energy, and the environment.
The certificate program offers current ASU graduate students and transportation professionals the opportunity to pursue a wide range of transportation-related issues from a multimodal, interdisciplinary perspective.
The certificate is intended to be either a specialization within an existing graduate degree program or a stand-alone 16 credit, non-degree program.
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Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies
Applicants -- either those already enrolled in an ASU degree program, or those who would like to do the certificate alone -- must complete the online application through Graduate Admission. In the application, you will be asked to upload:
Applicants who are not currently enrolled in an ASU degree program, but wish to seek a graduate degree as well as the Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies, must complete the full Graduate Admission application process as specified by the school of interest in addition to an online application for the Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies Certificate. Please see each school’s guidelines for admission to a degree program. Please be aware that admission to a degree program and to the Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies Certificate are independent of each other. Applicants interested in applying to the Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies Certificate in addition to a degree program must also complete an admission essay for the certificate program that is independent from an admission essay for a degree program.
PLEASE NOTE - No more than 6.0 credits taken prior to admission into the Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies certificate program may be included on the plan of study. Please apply early.
Questions regarding the application process should be directed to sgsup.gradprograms@asu.edu.
Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies
The certificate is comprised of 16 credit hours, broken down in the following manner:
PUP 564/591 Transportation Systems Professional Seminar generally meets only in the Fall semester in a once-a-week 2.5-hour evening class. It offers a broad overview of key concepts, transportation modes (road, rail, air, transit, non-motorized), geographic settings (rural, urban, parks, Indian lands, international trade), and issues (economics, equity, planning, safety, finance, regulation, environment, public participation, aging, alternative fuels). It features speakers from all academic disciplines in order to introduce you to the variety of disciplinary perspectives, terminology, and methods.
CEE 591 Interdisciplinary Transportation Seminar is generally held once each Fall and Spring semester. Students outside the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering may need to request an override to enroll.
Students are expected to attend transportation-related seminars and events offered by the different disciplines. Requirements to attend a certain number of these events will be built into PUP 564/591, CEE 591, and PUP 593 class requirements.
In developing a capstone paper, students are encouraged to work with transportation professionals or faculty in their area of interest to identify a topic that is of interest to the broader public and/or academia. Capstone papers can take various forms:
A thesis, dissertation, or applied project that focuses on transportation may substitute for a capstone paper. Students, however, must still register for the 3-credit PUP 593 course in the semester in which the substitute capstone thesis or project is to be completed. Credit for the substitute capstone will not be granted until the thesis, dissertation, or applied project is completed. The substitute capstone activity must be an individual project rather than a group project, must be worth a minimum of 5 credits, and must focus primarily on transportation. The director of the certificate program must approve any substitute cap
Students need to be aware that the 3-credit transportation certificate capstone paper does not replace a final culminating experience for a degree (i.e., thesis, applied project, capstone, and dissertation).
All decisions related to program offerings, admissions, and departmental participation are made in cooperation with the Transdiciplinary Transportation Studies Certificate Advisory Committee, which includes a member from several participating schools.
Be in touch regularly with the certificate director by email to let them know you have applied to earn the certificate and to verify the courses you are taking meet the requirements.
The Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies certificate is now offering courses on three ASU campuses as well as Internet courses. Internet courses do not meet at specific times. Follow guidelines given by instructors.
PUP 564/591, the required transportation proseminar, will be every Fall semester. It will be a discussion-based evening class, most likely on a Wednesday evening.
Please note that the capstone paper—PUP 593—does not meet at a specific time, even though the university course schedule says so. It is an independent project and is offered every semester.
The courses listed below are approved transportation-related electives. Students wishing to take elective courses other than those listed here should submit the Petition for Interdisciplinary Elective.
COURSE NUMBER* | COURSE TITLE |
Planning Courses (Tempe Campus) | |
PUP 564/591 (required) | Transportation Systems Professional Seminar |
PUP 593 (required) | Transportation Capstone (Paper) (note: no specific class meetings) |
PUP 410*/510 | Public Participation in Planning |
PUP 434* | Economic Development Planning |
PUP 544 | Urban Land Use Planning |
PUP 550 | Transportation Planning Environment |
PUP 551 | Sustainable Transportation Planning |
PUP 553 (also CEE 507) | Urban Infrastructure Anatomy & Sustainable Development |
PUP 576 | GIS Workshop for Planners |
Aeronautical Management Technology Courses (Polytechnic Campus) | |
AMT 408* | National Aviation Policy |
AMT 410* | Aviation Safety and Human Factor |
AMT 444* | Airport Management and Planning |
AMT 489* | Airline Administration |
AMT 522 | Aviation Law/Regulations |
AMT 523 | Intermodal Transportation Management |
AMT 524 | Airport Management and Operations |
AMT 525 | Airport Planning and Design |
AMT 527 | Airline Management Strategies |
AMT 528 | International Aviation |
Civil & Environmental Engineering Courses (Tempe Campus) | |
CEE 412*/511 | Pavement Analysis and Design |
CEE 474*/598 | Transportation Systems Planning |
CEE 475*/576 | Highway Geometric Design |
CEE 573 | Transportation Operations |
CEE 574 | Highway Capacity |
CEE 598 | Travel Behavior Analysis |
CEE 494*/598 | Airport Pavement Design |
CEE 507 (also PUP 553) | Urban Infrastructure Anatomy & Sustainable Development |
CEE 598 | Transportation Safety Analysis |
CEE 598 | Sustainable Civil & Environmental Systems Engineering |
CEE 598 | Transportation Survey Methods & Data Analysis |
Geography Courses (Tempe Campus) | |
GIS 471*/571 | Spatial Stats for Geography and Planning |
GIS 521 | GIS Programming |
GCU 542 | Geographical Analysis of Transportation |
GIS 461*/561 | Fundamentals of Spatial Optimization |
GIS 462*/562 | Location Analysis and Modeling |
Industrial Engineering (Tempe Campus) | |
IEE 521 | Urban Operations Research |
IEE 534 | Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis |
IEE 535 | Intro International Logistics Systems |
IEE 598 | Network Flows |
IEE 620 | Optimization I |
Public Affairs Courses (Downtown Phoenix Campus) | |
PAF 505 | Public Policy Analysis |
PAF 506 | Public Budget & Finance |
PAF 570 | Microeconomics of Public Policy II |
PAF 591 | Economic Development |
PAF 591 | Advanced Government Financial Management |
Supply Chain Management Courses (Tempe Campus) | |
SCM 541 | Logistics in the Supply Chain |
* A maximum of 6.0 credits of 400-level elective coursework may be included on the plan of study.
Optimal facility location and network design models, transportation geography, light rail, alternative fuels, carbon capture and storage
Airport and airline management, law, and regulation
Transportation systems analysis, network modeling and optimization, intelligent transportation systems, transportation safety
Public budget, financial management, municipal bonds
Evaluating emergency evacuation, enhanced monitoring and planning of network infrastructure
Sustainable urban transportation, understanding transportation choices, climate policy for transportation, urban economics
Energy and environmental life cycle assessment of transportation and land use systems, human health and ecosystem services impact assessment, environmental mitigation
Mathematical modelling of flows - spatial interaction modelling; big data issues in transportation; spatial analysis of traffic accidents; GIS-T
International issues in transportation
Asphalt mixtures, design, and characterizations, pavement management
Urban transportation planning, environmental justice, sustainable urban planning and design
Codependence of transportation and land use planning, and transportation finance and economics, including parking policy, taxi services, micro-transit, and urban freight, and how these policies interact with land use planning
Pavement analysis
Transportation and energy, alternative fuels, biofuels, energy transitions, spatial simulation of future of transportation energy supplies, transportation energy policy
Transportation technology, international issues in transportation
Transportation of hazardous materials, environmental consequences of transportation decision making
Network optimization, robust optimization, and integer programming, applications of optimization in environment, public policy, and urban planning
Asphalt concrete performance testing, design, and analysis; Constitutive modeling of construction materials; sustainable pavement solutions
Transit and mobility, large transit technology systems, extreme weather and transit, equity, transit decision making, transit training
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Transdisciplinary Transportation Studies (Graduate Certificate)
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The Plan of Study is the required curriculum to complete the program.