The Tandon School of Engineering, NYU’s college of engineering and applied sciences, is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States. Transportation students at NYU live and work in the epicenter of one of the largest and most complex urban transportation networks in the world, using New York City as a living laboratory to learn about and study today’s most pressing transportation issues. Esteemed faculty offer a wealth of expertise, training students in everything from the fundamentals of traffic engineering to the latest in smart cities technology.

The primary departments involved in transportation education are the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering (CUE) in the Tandon School of Engineering, the Wagner School of Public Service, and the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP).

Deep Dive: NYU MS in Transportation Systems

The M.S. in Transportation Systems at NYU aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge to tackle the challenges inherent to this new era of urban mobility.

The program, shaped by immersion in one of the largest metropolitan cities in the world, will provide students with a truly multidisciplinary education. Learn more about the program’s professors and their offerings below.

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Professor Joseph Chow

Prof. Chow, who has been with NYU Tandon School of Engineering since September of 2012, teaches: 

  • Urban Transportation & Logistics Systems
  • Urban Public Transportation Systems
  • Travel Behavioral Informatics

Prof. Vignon, who has been with NYU Tandon since September of 2024, teaches:

  •  Transportation Economics and Finance Fundamentals
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Professor Eugene Vinitsky

Prof. Vinitsky, who has been with NYU Tandon since September of 2024, teaches:

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning & Optimal Control 
  • Deep Learning for Engineering