Transportation and Infrastructure

Concentration Advisors: Jose Gomez-Ibanez and Judith Grant Long

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This area of concentration covers any form of infrastructure that is an important shaper of the built environment, including transportation, storm water, drinking water and sewage. Students are encouraged to take courses that examine infrastructure from a variety of perspectives, including: planning practice and policy, analytic methods applied to infrastructure planning and operations, physical design of infrastructure, relationship between infrastructure and land use, private infrastructure providers and their regulation, and specialized courses on particular modes of transportation or types of infrastructure.

Planning Practice and Policy

Fall

• GSD 5304 Transportation Planning and Development
• HBS 1144 The Energy Business and Geopolitics
• HKS IGA-410 Energy Policy: Technologies, Systems, and Markets
• MIT 11.371J Sustainable Energy
• MIT 11.379 Enabling an Energy Efficient Society
• MIT 11.540J Urban Transportation Planning
• MIT 11.601 Introduction to Environmental Policy and Planning
• MIT 11.477 Infrastructure in Crisis: Energy & Security Challenges

Spring

• HKS IGA-435 Water and Development
• MIT 1.253J Transportation Policy and Environmental Limits

Analytic Methods Applied to Infrastructure Planning

Fall

• GSD 5302 Transportation Policy and Planning
• HKS API-135 Fundamentals of Environmental Economics and Policy
• HKS MLD-410 State and Local Public Finance
• MIT 11.544J Transportation Systems Analysis: Performance and Optimization
• MIT 11.545J Introduction to Transportation Systems
• MIT 1.203J Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods
• MIT 11.630J Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control

Spring

• MIT 1.202J Demand Modeling
• MIT 1.254 Transport Modeling Course

The Physical Design and Requirements of Infrastructure

Fall

• GSD 3241 Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices,
• GSD 3472 Urban Grids: Exploring Its Design Potentials
• MIT 11.314J Water, Landscape, and Urban Design

Spring

• MIT 11.304J Site and Environmental Systems Planning

The Relationship Between Infrastructure and Land Use

Fall

• MIT 11.482J Regional Socioeconomic Impact Analyses and Modeling

Spring

• MIT 1.251J Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning
• MIT 1.283J Urban and Regional Economics
• MIT 11.528 Urban Spatial Structure, Transportation, and Telecommunications I and II
• Staff
(Same subject as ESD.229J)

Private Providers and Their Regulation

Fall

• HKS API-141 Finance
• HKS API-148 Advanced Risk Management and Infrastructure Finance
• HKS BGP-200 Strategy, Competition, and Regulation

Spring

• GSD 7309 and HBS 1485 Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance
• HKS PED-209 Management, Finance, and the Regulation of Public Infrastructure in the Developing
• MIT 11.487 Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries

Specialized Courses on a Particular Form of Infrastructure or Transportation 

Fall

• MIT 1.231J Planning and Design of Airport Systems
• MIT 1.232J The Airline Industry
• MIT 1.260J Logistics Systems
• MIT 11.S942 Urban Energy Systems & Policy

Spring

• MIT 1.234J Airline Management
• MIT 1.258J Public Transportation Systems
• MIT 11.479J Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Developing Countries