Master's programme in Transport and Geoinformation Technology
To create and support a sustainable and prosperous society involves more than just developing new technologies and acting sustainably as individuals: it also demands that we understand how technologies are adopted and propagated, how our daily activities and movements are affected by new policies and technologies, how these changes interact and spread across space, and how all these efforts lead to change in the cities and regions around us.
Toward this goal, this program combines two closely related aspects of the built environment: transport systems and geoinformation technologies. In transport systems, we focus on analyzing the movement of people and goods through space, and on planning, designing, constructing, and operating the systems that accommodate these flows. Geoinformation technology deals with acquisition, analysis, storage, visualisation and utilization of geospatial data using information technology.
Career prospects
Here are some examples of what careers the program can lead to:
- Geoinformation analyst, gathering, analyzing, and reporting on geospatial data at national mapping and cartographic agencies
- Transport planner/modeller, helping city or regional governments to plan, design and operate transport systems and to analyze the transport effects of new developments to achieve sustainability
- Consultant at a private firm in areas ranging from surveying, mapping, and geoinformation processing to transport planning and traffic engineering
- Railways engineer, undertaking strategic planning of rail systems including infrastructure, rollingstock, timetable management, and traveller information services
- GIS expert in fields ranging from urban planning to land and resource management to environmental monitoring
Programme outline
The programme in Transport and Geoinformation Technology (TGT) combines two closely related aspects of the built environment: Transport Systems and Geoinformation technology. The programme enables students to either specialise in one of these main subjects or to develop their own interdisciplinary study plan, making the best use of each student’s unique background and interests.
Degree project
In the degree project, students apply their acquired knowledge and skills to solving scientific problems in the main subject areas of the program. They conduct independent investigations characterized by critical analysis and synthesis. They learn how to analyze, formulate and define scientific problems, find and evaluate possible solutions and finally present the results in a thesis, presented and defended in a public seminar. In addition, the students will get practical training in scientific communication and presentation, both orally and in written form.
Students should complete 60 credits of courses before starting the degree project. The degree project can be carried out at KTH or in a company or organization outside KTH. The topic can be developed by the student alone or together with supervisors, and a project plan must first be submitted and approved by the examiner. Degree projects are graded based on the ECTS scale: A-F.
