Transport Studies

Graduate Program in Transport Studies  (Academic Master's and Doctoral Degrees)

Program Description

The University of Brasilia's Graduate Program in Transportation of was created in 1988 as a Master's Degree in Urban Transport. It was an important step at the time, in order to meet the demand for training of highly skilled human resources in the area of urban transport, especially in the north and midwest regions of Brazil. It was established through an agreement signed between the University of Brasília and the Federal Government, with support from the Brazilian Urban Transport Company (EBTU).In 1998, started the Interdisciplinary Center for Transport Studies (Ceftru) at the University of Brasilia, in partnership with the International Agency of Japanese Cooperation (JICA) and with the Ministry of Transportation. In order to expand the activities developed beyond the frontiers of urban transport, in 1999 the course became a Master's Degree in Transportation. In 2005 the Doctoral Degree in Transportation was initiated and the program then gained the current denomination of "Graduate Program in Transport Studies - PPGT ".

Research Topics

  • Logistics: Transportation management, distribution of goods and services from supplier to customer.
  • Transportation System Operation: Traffic and road safety.
  • Transportation Planning: Transportation planning models; Applied studies of transportation planning.

 

Courses

Master's candidates must take 25 credits from the following courses:

 

CODEDESCRIPTION
CPPGT2287 Logistics Systems Analysis
PPGT0308 Traffic Flow Analysis
PPGT0315 Institutional and Legal Aspects of Public Transportation
PPGT0307 Control of Urban Traffic
PPGT0266 Transportation Economics 1
PPGT0303 Transportation Economics 2
PPGT0113 Elaboration of Bibliographic Reviews
PPGT0254 Traffic Engineering
PPGT0319 Teaching Internship in Transportation
PPGT0345 Special Studies in Transportation Management
PPGT0337 Special Studies in Transportation Operations
PPGT0330 Special Studies in Transportation Planning
PPGT0425 Qualification Examination in Transportation
PPGT0343 Transportation Funding
PPGFIT3925 Fundamentals of Statistics and Quantitative Methods 1
PPGT0304 Fundamentals of Statistics and Quantitative Methods 2
PPGT0306 Fundamentals in Vehicular Safety
PPGT0341 Pavement Management
PPGT0423 Introduction to Logistics
PPGT0233 Introduction to Transportation Studies
PPGT0301 Introduction to Operational Research in Transportation
PPGT0326 Research Methodology in Transportation
PPGT0302 Transportation Modeling
PPGT0258 Operation of Public Transportation Systems
PPGT0262 Organization of Public Transportation
PPGT0327 Network Optimization
PPGFAU3927 Transportation Planning
PPGT0335 Road Security
PPGT0318 Master's Seminar in Transportation
PPGT0312 Geographic Information Systems for Transportation
PPGT0329 Intelligent Systems for Transportation
PPGT0322 Technology of Transports
PPGT0348 Advanced Studies in Transport Management
PPGT0340 Advanced Topics in Transports Operation
PPGT0332 Advanced Topics in Transport Planning
PPGT0333 Air transportation
PPGFAU3942 Transportation and Environment
PPGT0031 Transportation and Environment 2
PPGT2286 Transport and Society
PPGT0334 Waterway Transportation

Faculty

Prof. Alan Ricardo da Silva

Prof. Augusto César de Mendonça Brasil

Prof. Carlos Henrique Marques da Rocha

Profa. Fabiana Serra de Arruda

Prof. Francisco Gildemir Ferreira da Silva

Prof. Li Weigang

Profa. Michelle Andrade

Prof. Neantro Saavedra Rivano

Prof. Pastor Willy Gonzales Taco

Prof. Reinaldo Crispiniano Garcia

Profa. Rita de Cássia Silva

Prof. Sérgio Ronaldo Granemann

 

Contacts

Phone: +55 61 3107-0975

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Website: http://www.transportes.unb.br/