Spotlight

  • Dr. John Renne featured in NewPublicHealth.org blog
    UNOTI Director Dr. John Renne has been featured in NewPublicHealth.org, a public health news and discussion forum from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that explores the intersection between transportation, health and quality of life. NewPublicHealth caught up with Dr. Renne at the American Public Transportation Association's annual meeting (held earlier this month in New Orleans), to discuss the economic impacts and other community benefits of continued investment in rail passenger transportation in the region.
  • New book addresses lessons learned from Katrina and Rita
    Six years after Hurricane Katrina and we've learned some lessons the hard way here in New Orleans. Now, all over the world people are using those lessons to better prepare themselves for natural disasters. And they can learn more from the new book, "Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the US Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita." Contributor and UNO Professor of Planning and Urban Studies, Doctor John Renne, talked to Eyewitness Morning News Monday about the book.
     

Education | Bachelor of Science Transportation Studies Program (pending)


The pending Bachelor of Science in Transportation Studies is a four year undergraduate program designed to provide instruction in the most technically advanced, secure, efficient, accessible, competitive, dynamic and environmentally responsible system for moving goods and people. The program encompasses the study of all modes of transportation – road, rail, maritime and air – and their intermodal connections.
The program includes two concentrations of study:

  • Transportation Planning and Policy
  • Maritime and Intermodal Transportation

Pending formal implementation of the undergraduate program, students can acquire a Certificate in Transportation Studies through completion of designated transportation studies courses currently being offered under our Masters of Urban Planning Program. 

For information on the BS in Transportation Studies Program and/or the Certificate in Transportation Studies, please contact Dr. John L. Renne or Carol Short.