MSc Transport Engineering and Planning

The course combines formal lectures and seminars with extensive coursework including transport planning studio work, traffic survey projects, appraisal assignments and statistics tutorials. The teaching panel includes visiting specialists with expert knowledge of specific topics.

You will be exposed to a range of relevant transport software.

Part-time students study the taught modules over two years on a day-release basis (currently Thursdays)

Assessment

Assessment is by a combination of formal examinations, tutorial and seminar work, course assignment portfolio and a dissertation.  The overall breakdown is:

• Examination: 35%
• Coursework: 65%

Staff Profile

Ralph Henson

BA MSc MIHT CEng

Ralph Henson has been programme leader for this course since 1992. He graduated with a first class Honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Warwick in 1974 and an MSc in Transport Engineering and Planning from the University of Salford in 1985. After brief spells with the Post Office and with Trafford Borough Council, he joined Merseyside County Council in 1977 and had responsibility for traffic surveys, accident investigations and analysis and special projects before leaving to join the University of Salford as a lecturer in Transport Engineering in 1985.

Ralph is responsible for teaching all aspects of transport engineering and planning to postgraduates. He has published research on traffic safety and road accidents and sustainable transport networks and is currently supervising a study into residential trip rates in city centres.

He was Chair of the North Western Branch of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation during 2005/2006