This is an elective graduate/upper-level undergraduate course that introduces students to public transportation in the United States. We will cover transit governance, finance, planning, operations, societal impacts, and how to engage transit riders in the planning process. Throughout the course we will explore who benefits, who pays, who makes decisions, and for whom transit is planned and implemented.
The course is divided into file modules:
1. Transit past and present
2. Equity and engagement
3. Policy and financing
4. Service planning and performance management
5. Group project time
This course uses some materials from the American Public Transit Association’s (APTA) National Transit Curriculum.