What Curriculum for Mobility and Transport Studies? A Critical Exploration

Abstract

To understand the complex meanings of mobility and to engage in transport planning and management processes, a variety of disciplines, skills, and tools are potentially useful. Universities have a limited amount of time and resources to train future professionals though. This poses a problem: where should the teaching priorities be? By means of a web-survey, this study has asked academics based at a number of universities what the disciplines, skills, and tools that — according to their personal viewpoints — are the most relevant for practitioners in the mobility and transport sector. The respondents generally support curricula that facilitate a holistic, non-specialised, understanding of mobility and transport issues.

Keywords:

• curriculum
• education
• transport
• mobility
• survey

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratitude to the anonymous reviewers and the editor. Their comments played a key role in the improvement of this paper. We also would like to express gratitude to all who responded to our online survey request.