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PLAN 478Transit Planning and Operations

Units
0.50
Faculty
Environment
Subject
Planning
Cross-listed
CIVE 440

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 3 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This course will focus on the evolution of transit in cities, including the technological innovations that have made transit possible. Students will learn about various transit modes, system operational characteristics, and transit network planning objectives. Students will also develop knowledge of transit vehicle motion, optimizing scheduling, assessing travel times, and transit ownership structures and financing. Students will develop their methodological skills for selecting appropriate transit modes and analyzing transit network geometries.

Prerequisites

  • Complete 1 of the following
    • Must have completed the following:
      • ENVS278 - Applied Statistics for Environmental Research (0.50)
    • Must have completed the following:

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 00153070 / 75MW 16:00–17:20
LEC 701209966 / 9999Online or by arrangement
TUT 10153330 / 75T 08:30–09:20

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  • Great course, learned a lot. You may feel like when you submit the assignments that you didn't do great on them, but when you get them back, you'll get 85+ in most cases.

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Winter 2020

Check it elsewhere for Fall 2026

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