Emerging Transportation Systems (MS)

Transportation is a dynamic field with many aspects. The Master of Science in Emerging Transportation Systems prepares students from any sufficiently analytical undergraduate background for advanced positions in the private, public or non-profit sector as well as for advanced graduate study. Students complete the program core, subject to options indicated there, plus a specialization for a total of 32 units.

The program core provides students with a broad, interdisciplinary basis for understanding transportation systems and needs. A required specialization of the student’s choosing provides depth in a focused aspect of transportation systems relating to a particular set of methods or problem domain. Students learn:

• the design, provision, operation and effectiveness of transportation services in the larger context of economic and social systems;
• how organizations can best adapt to changes affecting the transportation environment in which services are demanded and provided, including the relationships between transportation, technology, information services and regulatory requirements; and
• to characterize, analyze and address complex transportation problems at the system level by relying on both theory and applied analytical methods.

For Admission Requirements, refer to USC Viterbi School of Engineering.