Urban Mobility

Career opportunities

Graduates may find employment in logistics, transport management, mobility and sustainability departments in public bodies, mobility operators, urbanism, consultancy, the automobile sector, private mobility services, etc.

Their potential future careers are as urban planners and designers of public spaces, planners of sustainable mobility policies, advisors in private and public companies in the sector, designers and managers of mobility services, mobility energy strategists, citizen participation coordinators and international mobility project managers.

They will have high-level competencies in entrepreneurship and innovation and may develop business initiatives on a self-employed basis or set up a business.

Learning objectives

Generic competencies

Generic competencies are the skills that graduates acquire regardless of the specific course or field of study. The generic competencies established by UPC-BarcelonaTech are capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability and social commitment, knowledge of a foreign language (preferably English), teamwork and proper use of information resources.

Specific competencies

• To analyse and design mobility and logistics services, in whole or in part, by applying methods, techniques and tools that are appropriate for specific functions and aims.
• To design procedures for collecting mobility data that take into consideration their specificity, and to apply appropriate techniques for processing them, analysing them and drawing conclusions from them so that they can be used in the models that require them.
• To design and carry out demand analysis studies, and to model demand and its structure in accordance with mobility models.
• To apply modelling, optimisation and simulation techniques for solving problems that arise in mobility design, operation and management.
• To diagnose the implications of globalisation phenomena and changes in markets for the operation of supply chains.
• To calculate fundamental variables in transport and mobility systems that affect the safety, quality and sustainability of transport infrastructure and the optimisation of the functioning of these systems.
• To plan, manage and operate transport and mobility systems, and to analyse the levels of service to users, operating costs and the social and environmental impacts of public passenger transport, traffic, private vehicles, air transport, maritime transport, intermodal transport and urban mobility.
• To identify the future consequences of short- and long-term plans and decisions from an integrated scientific, ethical and intergenerational perspective, and to bring these elements together in a solution-based approach to advance towards a sustainable society. (Specific competency of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship specialisation)
• To translate innovations into viable business solutions. (Specific competency of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship specialisation)
• To foster one's ability to think beyond pre-established limits and systematically explore and generate new ideas. (Specific competency of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship specialisation)
• To apply knowledge, ideas and technology to create or significantly improve new products, services, processes, policies, business models and jobs. (Specific competency of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship specialisation)
• To use and apply cutting-edge research methods, processes and techniques to create and grow new businesses and in interdisciplinary teams and contexts. (Specific competency of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship specialisation)
• To transform practical experiences into research problems and challenges. (Specific competency of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship specialisation)
• To make decisions and foster one's leadership abilities on the basis of a holistic understanding of the contributions of higher education, research and businesses to value creation, in teams and contexts that are limited in size or scope. (Specific competency of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship specialisation)
• To carry out and present and defend before an examination committee an original, individual piece of work consisting of an urban mobility project, of a professional or research nature, that synthesises and integrates the competencies acquired on the master's degree.
• A capacity for the planning, management and operation of civil engineering infrastructure.

Below are the courses that are offered at UPC-BarcelonaTech for the first and second year.

Students enrolled at UPC-BarcelonaTech for the Master's Degree in Urban Mobility can access the following information:

The Master's Thesis is an original exercise to be done individually and presented and defended before a university panel consisting in a project in the sphere of the specific urban mobility synthesising and integrating the competences acquired on the course.

If the student takes the master thesis outside the UPC (and it is also evaluated in another university), then, to incorporate the qualification at UPC it is necessary:

• Enrollment at the UPC and enrollment also at the destination university of the Master's Thesis.
• Master's Thesis abstract, original document signed and stamped and sent by email to masters.camins@upc.edu. If the file does not incorporate an authenticated digital electronic signature, deliver the signed and stamped original.
• Upload the work to Atenea TFE.
• Master's thesis qualification certificate issued by the official destination university. Please send a digital copy, if the center has an authenticated digital electronic signature, if not, please send the original certificate on paper.

List of master's theses currently scheduled for public presentation:

As this is a new programme there is not any information available for the moment.