Hello, I am a current BS Architecture student and I am graduating December 2017. I want to be a transportation planner that works for a city government with a focus on TODs, street design, and pedestrian/bike oriented transportation. I was looking at urban planning programs with a transportation focus and found that maybe a dual Transportation engineering and planning degree would be beneficial. I am interested in transit design and Transportation engineering is more design/technology oriented vs a MUP. My only concern is math and physics. I like the analytical and research side of transportation and I don't mind economics or statistics. However, I don't like physics or calculus. I know I will have to take them as prereqs for the MST, but is it used often in the program or field? The programs I have looked at seem more statistics oriented. Do transportation engineers design by using traffic flow calculations. statistics, and data or by physics, load capacity and materials. If it is the latter, then I would not be interested and I will just stick with urban planning with a transportation focus. I have no interest in structural/civil engineering and more interested in the analytical side of engineering. Would this dual degree be useful in the field or a waste of money? I know most transportation planners are engineers. Looking at MIT, UC Berkeley, PSU, and Georgia Tech. Thank you for any help and comments, sorry for the long post.
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