Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering Aalto University

Overview

While urbanisation is attracting more people to live in cities, fighting the climate crisis requires making decisions that sustainably transform urban spaces and transportation systems. 

To answer the intriguing technical and social questions arising from these pressing challenges, the Master’s Programme in Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering educates future leaders with technical yet human-centred mindsets and toolboxes. 

It’s one of the world’s first programmes combining the closely interlinked fields of spatial planning and transportation engineering – something that the field’s leading practitioners have been suggesting for years. 

Thanks to this future-facing and unique approach, Aalto University graduates will leap to the forefront of modern practice and shape how people live and move in the modern world.

Career opportunities

Collaboration with cities, companies and other stakeholders within the Master's Programme in Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering from Aalto University  is highly active during studies. The interactive studio courses are often visited and hosted by cities and leading companies in the field, and many of them also provide thesis work opportunities.

As the field of spatial planning and transportation engineering is in constant motion, graduates often get to define completely new roles in organisations. Novel titles and responsibilities emerge in all the major career paths that can be divided into three main categories:

• Working in the public sector, mostly in strategic and leadership positions regarding, for example, urban planning, green and green cities

• Working in the private sector as consultants, analysts, planners and specialists

• Following an academic path and becoming a researcher in the field