Transportation Policy, Strategy, and Management

A photo looking down the middle of the pedestrian walkway on the Brooklyn Bridge.

New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, overseen by the New York City Department of Transportation. (Image courtesy of the Sandia National Laboratories.)

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MIT Course Number

1.223J / ESD.203J

As Taught In

Fall 2004

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Description

This class surveys the current concepts, theories, and issues in strategic management of transportation organizations. It provides transportation logistics and engineering systems students with an overview of the operating context, leadership challenges, strategies, and management tools that are used in today's public and private transportation organizations. The following concepts, tools, and issues are presented in both public and private sector cases: alternative models of decision-making, strategic planning (e.g., use of SWOT analysis and scenario development), stakeholder valuation and analysis, government-based regulation and cooperation within the transportation enterprise, disaster communications, systems safety, change management, and the impact of globalization.

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Joseph Coughlin. 1.223J Transportation Policy, Strategy, and Management. Fall 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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