Poznań, Poland

Transport

Master's
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Transport studies

⇑Transport at PP

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.put.poznan.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Transport the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A city wants to reduce congestion on its main road. How do you approach the task?

2. A logistics company asks you to cut delivery costs across its network. What do you do?

3. How comfortable are you with transport modelling software, GIS and statistical analysis?

4. A rail operator wants more passengers on a regional line. What would you suggest?

5. The programme is taught in English, and your classmates know transport systems from many different countries. How do you see that?

6. Your Master’s thesis could study how electric and self-driving vehicles might change urban mobility. How do you feel?

7. A major port is suddenly closed for a week, disrupting your company’s supply chain. What do you do?

8. You coordinate a project for a new tram line involving engineers, planners and local residents. How do you handle it?

9. How important are safety and environmental impact when you plan transport solutions?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Transport?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is important because it enables trade between people, which is essential for the development of civilizations.
Transport
The space of time in which a great work can now be accomplished is not marvellous. Brain, muscle, materials, and the means of rapid transport are instantly at command. If one has capital and a well-considered plan, the thing does itself. But that which is wonderful and which I can scarcely believe, although I have been in the midst of it, is the noble, artistic result which has come from the work of American artists who have had only a few months' time to prepare those very designs for the great buildings of the Exposition which have actually been executed with little change from the sketches which were presented in February, 1891.
Daniel Burnham (1891) attributed in: Charles Moore (1921) Daniel H. Burnham, architect, planner of cities. p. 72-73
Transport
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
Edith Hamilton The Greek Way (1930) Ch. 1
Transport
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.
Odilon Redon, quoted in: Jean-François Guillou (2000) Great Paintings of the World. p. 190
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