1.223J | Fall 2004 | Graduate

Transportation Policy, Strategy, and Management

Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Course Introduction  
2 Alternative Models of Decision Making in Government and Business Assignment I - The Rescission of the Passive Restraint Standard
3 Managing Uncertainty: Strategic Planning in Business  
4 Managing Stakeholders and Problem Definition: Strategic Planning in Government  
5 Government-Business Relations in Transportation: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation  
6 Government-Business Relations in Conflict: Regulating Transportation Safety  
7 Government-Business Relations in Conflict: Regulating Transportation’s Influence on the Environment Assignment I due in class

Assignment II to be handed out in class

8 Government-Business Relations in Cooperation: Transportation Research and Development  
9 Government-Business Relations in Cooperation: Transportation Infrastructure Development  
10 Privatizing and Outsourcing of Transportation  
11 Crash! Strategic Management of Transportation Disaster  
12 Change Management in Transportation  
13 Globalization and Non-Governmental Organizations in Transportation Assignment II due in class