The graduate Certificate in Transportation Planning is a multi-disciplinary program aimed at providing students with a substantive base of knowledge needed to be broadly successful in the transportation profession, as well as with specialized instruction tailored to building student skills and capabilities in four critical areas: Multimodal Systems Planning, Transportation & Urban Design, Transportation & Public Policy, and Transit Management. This program will be open to any graduate student at Texas A&M University with an interest in transportation. The certificate is housed in the Center for Housing & Urban Development in the College of Architecture and is developed as a partnership between the College of Architecture, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), and the Bush School of Government and Public Service.

Students who complete the certificate will be able to identify planning needs and use specialized knowledge to solve transportation planning challenges. Completing the certificate provides students with the substantive base of knowledge needed to be broadly successful in the transportation profession as well as specialized knowledge in one of the four critical areas mentioned above.

This program was closed for new enrollments effective November 8, 2024 and inactivated on January 2, 2025. Students enrolled on November 8, 2024 will be allowed to complete the program contingent upon proper processes and approvals.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
Required Courses
PLAN 612	Transportation in City Planning	3
Focus Area
Select nine semester credit hours of a focus area		9
Capstone
PLAN 678	Applied Transportation Studio: Site Planning and Traffic Impact	3
Total Semester Credit Hours		15

Focus Area

Multimodal Systems Planning

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
Required
PLAN 670	Urban Public Transportation Planning 1	3
Electives
Select six semester credit hours from the following:		6
CVEN 618	Traffic Engineering: Operations
CVEN 672	Engineering and Urban Transportation Systems
PLAN 626	Advanced GIS in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
PLAN 650	Disaster Response Planning
PLAN 673	Design for Sustainable Transportation
PLAN 674	Transportation System Analysis
PLAN 676	Transportation Investment Decisions
Total Semester Credit Hours		9

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Students are advised to take PLAN 670 if available, but PLAN 673 will also satisfy this requirement.

Transportation and Urban Design

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
Required
PLAN 673	Design for Sustainable Transportation	3
Electives
Select six semester credit hours from the following:		6
CVEN 617	Traffic Engineering: Characteristics
CVEN 618	Traffic Engineering: Operations
CVEN 635	Street and Highway Design
CVEN 672	Engineering and Urban Transportation Systems
PLAN 670	Urban Public Transportation Planning
PLAN 674	Transportation System Analysis
PLAN 676	Transportation Investment Decisions
Total Semester Credit Hours		9

Transportation Planning and Public Policy

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
Required
PLAN 676	Transportation Investment Decisions	3
Electives
Select six semester credit hours from the following:		6
PSAA 611	Public Policy Formation
PSAA 616	Managing Workplace Diversity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
PSAA 617	U.S. State and Local Government: Institutions and Policy
PSAA 622	Public Finance
PSAA 634	Public Management
PLAN 650	Disaster Response Planning
Total Semester Credit Hours		9

Transit Management

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
Required
Select one of the following:		3
PLAN 670	Urban Public Transportation Planning 1
PLAN 673	Design for Sustainable Transportation
Electives
Planning and Civil Engineering:
Select one of the following:		3
CVEN 618	Traffic Engineering: Operations
CVEN 632	Transportation Engineering: Economics
CVEN 672	Engineering and Urban Transportation Systems
PLAN 674	Transportation System Analysis
Management, Policy and Finance:
Select one of the following:		3
MGMT 630	Behavior in Organizations
MGMT 639	Negotiations in Competitive Environments
MGMT 655	Survey of Management
MGMT 658	Managing Projects
MGMT 675	Leadership in Organizations
PLAN 676	Transportation Investment Decisions
PSAA 611	Public Policy Formation
PSAA 622	Public Finance
PSAA 634	Public Management
PSAA 636	Grant and Project Management in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
PSAA 648	Performance Management in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
Total Semester Credit Hours		9

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Students are advised to take PLAN 670 if available, but PLAN 673 will also satisfy this requirement.