Transport Systems
The Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems (DPTS) is designed to prepare students for transportation-related careers in academia, including teaching and advanced research, as well as professional practice careers in both public and private sectors. Upon completion of the program, students will be intellectual leaders within their chosen fields and organizations.
The goal of the program is to prepare students to become leading actors in the transportation world by providing excellence and innovation in teaching and research through:
• Providing a solid scientific education covering both methodological approaches and institutional factors required to understand the transportation enterprise as an intermodal integrated system;
• Conducting cutting-edge research for the development of a world-class transportation system for passengers and freight for Portugal that can serve as a model for the rest of Europe though multi-disciplinary research collaborations between Portugal, MIT and with European universities and outside Europe;
• Working with industrial, government, and laboratory collaborators to provide added value to the program through research collaboration and teaching involvement.
Top roles in public administration entities and companies operating in the transport systems area, research careers and higher education.
Access and ingress
The access rule for this study cycle are exactly the same that apply to all other doctoral
programmes at IST, corresponding to the legal requirements in art. 30 do DL 74/2006,
of March 24th
