Transportation Studies at Florida State
University
Recent research by Brown and
Thompson has focused on transit/land use policy in decentralized regions.
Mulit-destination transit systems, including that in San Diego, have been the
focus of much of this research. Hazard Center Station, San Diego Metropolitan
Transit Development Board, 2002, photo by G. Thompson
The
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
at Florida State University offers a
transportation specialization within its two-year professional Master's of
Science in Planning (MSP) degree program. It also offers a Doctoral Program,
whose students also may focus on transportation planning issues.
Graduates
of Transportation Planning Studies at Florida State University currently fill a
wide array of positions. These include consultants to legislative committees
making transportation policy, officials in the Federal Highway Administration
as well as state highway and transit offices, general managers of transit
authorities, mathematical modelers in world-wide transportation consulting
companies, and developers of master-planned communities emphasizing bike and
pedestrian use. Most students are offered positions upon or even before
graduation by national consulting firms with offices in Tallahassee, firms in
other locations, transit agencies, and other local, state, and federal planning
offices and regulatory agencies. During their studies, almost all
transportation planning students are offered internships by local firms and
agencies; many firms retain their interns as permanent employees.
[See also Civil and Environmental Engineering: Research in Transportation and Construction]
Contact Information
For more
information about graduate studies in transportation, please contact Greg L.
Thompson or Jeffrey Brown at
or
For complete information
about the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, its programs of study,
financial aid information, and application procedures, please visit the department’s web site.
You also may contact the
Department of Urban and Regional Planning’s Admissions Officer, Ms. Cynthia
Brown at:
cbrown@fsu.edu.
The departmental
mailing address and phone numbers are:
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
1.850.644.4510 phone
1.850.645.4841 fax
Last revised: 10 June 2008