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PLAN6928-1 / Fall 2026

Global Best Practices in Public Transportation

This seminar is a survey course covering best practices in building, managing and operating public transport in cities around the world, and examines how American transit agencies could learn from these improvements from abroad. This course examines the organizational structures, operational practices, technological improvements and capital construction techniques necessary to provide high-quality public transport. Case studies will cover both European and Japanese examples, as well as past American examples from the heyday of urban transit in the past century, and ways that global innovations have been put into practice in the American context.