Transportation serves as a foundation for progress across all domains of human activity, ensuring the reliable supply of goods and services critical to maintaining societal functions, while also fostering economic growth and overall well-being.

At the same time, harnessing technology’s cross-cutting role is essential for driving innovation and achieving sustainable transformation in transport systems. Real-time data collection, digital twins, new modes of transport, and other cutting-edge technologies enhance efficiency, sustainability, and user-centric approaches, and have become key factors influencing all aspects of transportation.

Programme Details:

The Intelligent Transport and Smart Logistics programme is designed on the knowledge and research of European-level experts – an intellectual and stimulating learning environment that provides both theoretical knowledge and practical experience in today’s world of transport and logistics. The lecturers of the programme are the leaders of European and Latvian projects in the field of transport and logistics. Students of the programme have different educational backgrounds, nationalities and work experience, all of which serve to enrich the learning environment and prepares for activities in international teams and large-scale projects.

In the study process, you will analyse real-world and theoretical problems, developing skills to design solutions for organizations operating under uncertainty and facing complex and rapidly changing markets and technologies. You will gain a strategic perspective of the relationships, flows, chains, processes, and systems comprising the international logistics and transport arena, with long-term sustainability as a key issue. With your transport and logistics systems expertise, you will have a wide choice of challenging career opportunities.

Our alumni are working as: transport system analytics, both in state-owned enterprises and as consultants in various companies; a logistics manager with a production company, controlling the entire logistics chain or in a technology company that is developing traffic and transport systems, where your knowledge and skills will be highly appreciated. You will be prepared for research projects and career development.

Programme Advantages:

• Programme is designed to meet the growing demand for highly qualified professionals with top quality skills in both the private and public sectors
• Opportunity to solve real-world problems and tasks in the field of professional activity during studies
• Lecturers of the programme are not only active researchers, but also provide consultations at various enterprises and government institutions
• An intellectually stimulating learning environment and modern learning technologies
• An individual approach to students
• Possibility to work in an international environment worldwide
• Participation in Latvian and European projects

For individuals, who…

want to reach the next level in career and apply for a higher position by acquiring a professional and strategic vision of day-to-day problems in the field of transport and logistics,

wants to develop the analytical thinking and critical skills needed for the effective and efficient strategic and operational management of transport and logistics companies

Potential careers…

• a transport systems analyst employed by a public or private company,

• a logistics manager in a production company, overseeing the entire logistics chain,

• the head of a logistics department in a technology company,

• a researcher developing modern transport and logistics systems.

Wants to obtain...

• the ability to identify transport problems and analyze them, develop and assess solutions for resolving such problems,

• the skills to evaluate projects, plans, and policies, taking into account stakeholder participation and recognizing the political, social, environmental, and economic issues involved,

• experience as a participant in projects developing sustainable transport and logistics systems in the long term.