Understand fundamental business administration concepts and their application to transportation management, including budgeting, program evaluation, organizational development and strategic planning. Who should attend The program was designed with two distinct audiences in mind. First, it is ideal for transportation or land use professionals who want to expand their knowledge and skills in organizational or business management, or broaden their education about transportation systems. The second audience consists of professionals working outside the transportation field who want to become involved in management, planning or development of transportation systems. Anyone interested in learning more about one of the fastest growing industries in California's economy, transportation, will benefit from this program.
Students also have the option to take a combination of courses from both tracks.
If you plan to follow the Community Planning Track, you must choose Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning and Design as one of the electives, along with at least one of the three available four-unit Land Use courses in that track. This course provides an overview of transportation systems and operations for the primary travel modes, including streets and highways, pedestrian and bicycle travel, light and heavy rail, bus transit, air travel, shipping and specialized transit services, as well as an overview of transportation demand management. The course begins with discussion of the Sacramento region's transportation systems, tracing its historical development to current delivery. Finally, the course explores various approaches to transportation system performance measures and evaluation, comprehensive and strategic planning in transportation, and operations and management issues for each transportation mode. X400.2 The course begins with an examination of how the United States, and particularly California and the west, have developed the transportation systems and policies on which we currently rely.