Warsaw, Poland

Transport

Master's
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Transport studies

⇑Transport at PW Warszawa

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.pw.edu.pl/engpw

⇑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
Public transport is functionality for people not engineers.
Johan Neerman “Het Laatste Nieuws” (December 2001), p. 16
Transport
I can transport matter — anything — at the speed of light, perfectly. Of course this is only a crude beginning, but I've stumbled on the most important discovery since man sawed off the end of a tree trunk and found the wheel. The disintegrator-integrator will change life as we know it. Think what it means. Anything, even humans, will go through one of these devices. No need for cars or railways or airplanes, even spaceships. We'll set up matter-receiving stations throughout the world, and later the universe. There'll never be famine. Surpluses can be sent instantaneously at almost no cost, anywhere. Humanity need never want or fear again. I'm a very fortunate man, Hélène.
James Clavell The Fly (1958) André Delambre (David Hedison) to his wife Hélène
Transport
Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation.
Marshall McLuhan (2011) The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan. p. 362
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