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The Graduate City Planning Program prepares students to function as professionals who are capable of understanding and resolving planning problems in depth. To enable students to focus their education on a consistent and cumulative body of knowledge, the Program offers the following seven specializations:  

Economic Development  | Environmental Planning and Management | Geographic Information Systems  | Land Development  | Land Use Planning  | Transportation  | Urban Design

Transportation

Transportation planning at Georgia Tech seeks to integrate both the planning and the civil engineering perspectives.  This specialization exposes students to the profession through analysis of the following: the urban transportation planning process, data collection procedures, mathematical and computer modeling, impact assessment and procedures for the development and evaluation of transportation plans.  The student develops transportation planning skills and a basis for the continued acquisition of knowledge.

The transportation planning specialization has two required courses:

• Introduction to Transportation Planning

• Transportation Planning Methods and Investment Decisions

Other courses in this specialization include:

• Land Use and Transportation Interaction 

• Regional Transportation Planning and Administration

• Transportation Economics

• Statistics in Transport

• Travel Demand Analysis

• Transportation, Energy and Air Quality

• Simulation in Transportation

• Transit Systems Planning and Design

Courses at Georgia State University

• Transportation Management

• Transportation and Land Use Economics

There is also a highly successful dual degree program with Civil and Environmental Engineering in the area of transportation. (See Joint Degrees and Certificates)