Urban Transportation Planning
MIT OpenCourseWare's graduate course on the policy, politics, planning, and engineering behind urban transportation systems, using the Boston area as a running case study. Lectures and readings cover the roles of federal, state, and local government and the MPO, the evolution of public transit alongside automobile dominance, analytical tools for transportation and traffic engineering, and the links between transportation, air pollution, and climate change. Land use and transportation interaction gets sustained attention, as does the recurring tension between environment, economy, and equity, the course's three organizing E's. Materials include the full syllabus, lecture notes, assignments, and readings, structured to provoke discussion and push students to question standard planning assumptions rather than accept them. No enrollment or certificate is offered; the course is published as open材料 for self-study. Free to access under MIT's OpenCourseWare license.