Transportation
Professional development courses and programs
Engineers, planners, consultants, and community leaders face formidable transportation challenges today: new patterns and modes of movement, decaying infrastructure, global-scale logistics, an explosion of data and disruptive technologies, and a public who assumes nearly free infrastructure and demands more transportation choices.
Looking at today’s needs as well as five years into the future, next-generation transportation aims for solutions that, by working across disciplines, support community resilience in the face of uncertainty and change.
Certificate in Next-Generation
Transportation (Online)
Our new online certificate program is designed to help mid-career professionals use next-generation transportation strategies to advance livable and sustainable cities of the future.
The program includes four core courses:
- Next Generation Cities and Transportation
- Next Generation Economic, Financial, and Technical Tools of the Trade
- Next Generation Multi‐Modal Transportation for Regions and Networks
- Next Generation Multi‐Modal Transportation for Neighbourhoods, Corridors, and Sites
We’ll emphasize case studies from across the world with policies and practices that resolve conflicts and explore trade-offs between different modes of transportation.
This online program will begin in early 2014. We will begin accepting applications in August 2013. Fill out the form on the right to receive details as soon as they become available.
Surrey Transportation Lecture Program
This annual course is a comprehensive introduction to transportation in the Lower Mainland, with a particular focus on Surrey. You’ll learn about a range of transportation issues, including corridor planning, the relationship between transportation and land use, and the operation and management of our transportation systems.
Public lectures and events
We offer several lectures each year on the topics of transportation, urban design, and sustainable community development. Here are a few of the transportation lectures we've hosted in the past:
Sticks, Carrots, and Tambourines: Actively Learning from Copenhagen's Transport Successes
with Andréas Rohl, Bicycle Program Manager, City of Copenhagen
Learning from New York
with Janette Sadik-Kahn, Transportation Commissioner, New York City
Sex, Neuroscience and Walkable Urbanism
with Jeff Tumlin, author of Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities
Creating Places for People: The Melbourne Experience
with Rob Adams, Director of City Design, Melbourne
Hear from our program director
Gordon Price on the Certificate in Next-Generation Transportation
“We live what we teach. And we bring the people who do things—the architects and the planners, the landscape architects and the engineers, people in the community—into the classroom.”