Master's Program in Transportation Systems - Overview: Modules and Courses

Recommended Winter Semester / ECTS Examination

Module Code Module Name Exam Duration Chair / Professorship
Semester Summer Semester Credits Type
BGU56047D2 Sustainable Transportation 1+2 Winter/Summer 9 Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control (responsible for the module)

Course 1 Transport Sociology and Psychology 1 Winter Paper Professorship for Modeling Spatial Mobility

Course 2 Transport Economy and System Assessment 2 Summer Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control
Written Exam 140 Min.
Course 3 Transport and the Environment 1 Winter Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control

BV580010 Analysis Methods - Statistics and GIS 1 Winter 6 Written Exam 120 Min. Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering (responsible for the module)

Course 1 Applied Statistics in Transport 1 Winter Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering

Course 2 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 1 Winter Chair of Cartography

BV520010 Land-Use and Transport - Strategies and Models 1 Winter 6 Written Exam 120 Min. Professorship of Urban Structure and Transport Planning

Course 1 Transport Planning Models 1 Winter

Course 2 Interactions of Land-Use and Transport 1 Winter

Required Modules

BGU52014 Transport Concepts and Implementation 2 Summer 6 Written Exam 120 Min. Professorship of Urban Structure and Transport Planning (responsible for the module)

Course 1 Public Transport Concepts 2 Summer Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control

Course 2 Transportation Policies and Project Design 2 Summer Professorship of Urban Structure and Transport Planning

BV340009 Infrastructure Planning 1+2 Winter/Summer 6 Written Exam 120 Min. Chair of Road, Railway and Airfield Construction

Course 1 Kinematics and Dynamics of Driving 1 Winter

Course 2 Infrastructure Design 2 Summer

BV560024 Traffic Management 1 Winter 6 Written Exam 120 Min. Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control

Course 1 Traffic Flow Models 1 Winter

Course 2 Traffic Control - Basics 1 Winter

BGU56038 Cross-cutting Fundamentals and Methods 1 Winter 3 Paper ---- Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering (responsible for the module)

Course 1 Scientific Paper Writing 1 Winter Professorship of Land Management and Land Tenure

Course 2 Intercultural Aspects of Transportation Management 1 Winter Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering

BGU56039 Transportation Systems in Germany 2 Summer 3 Paper ---- Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering

Course Transportation Systems in Germany

BV520003 Project Seminar 3 Winter 10 Paper ---- Focus Area "Mobility and Transportation Systems"

Course Project Seminar

BV00PKTS Internship Winter 5 Report ---- Focus Area "Mobility and Transportation Systems"

Internship passed/ fail

BV00MTTS Master'sThesis 4 Summer 30 Thesis 6 Months Focus Area "Mobility and Transportation Systems"
Thesis; Presentation
Master's Thesis
& Discussion
Recommended Winter Semester / ECTS
Module Code Module Name Examination Type Exam Duration Chair / Professorship
Semester Summer Semester Credits
Field of Study I: Transportation Infrastructure

BV340019 Road and Rail Design 3 Winter 6 Written Exam 120 Min. Chair of Road, Railway and Airfield Construction
Fields of Study

Course 1 Road Design

Course 2 Rail Design

Field of Study II: Intelligent Transport Systems

BV560023 Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) 2+3 Winter/Summer 6 Written Exam 120 Min. Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control

Course 1 Traffic Control - Extension 2 Summer

Course 2 ITS - System Architectures and Applications 3 Winter

Field of Study III: Transportation Demand Management

BV520002 Transportation Demand Management 2 Summer 6 Professorship of Urban Structure and Transport Planning

Course 1 Modelling of Integrated Land-use and Transport Systems Written Exam 60 Min.

Course 2 Seminar Paper

Elective Modules: Please see catalogue in TUMonline. Offer can vary from semester to semester.