Transport Planning Qualifications
TPS is committed to promoting the professional development of transport planners, to
- strengthen their careers
- enhance the standing of the profession
- make transport planning an even more attractive career choice.
The society has worked with GoSkills (the Sector Skills Council) in the development of National Occupational Standards (NOS) which were approved in 2007. They are available at National Occupation Standards - Transport Planning Industry.
The NOS form the basis of the new TPS professional development package:
- the TPS Professional Standards, a restructured version of the NOS that includes guidance on performance and evidence requirements for those following, managing and accessing a structured professional development scheme for transport planners.
- the TPS Professional Development Scheme, designed to meet the needs of transport planners, whether recent graduates just embarking on a career, those already in the profession but wanting to achieve professional recognition, or those changing careers. It is intended that any transport planner completing the Scheme should have obtained the experience required for the IHT/TPS Transport Planning Professional (TPP) qualification and Chartered membership of CILT; it is hoped that it will be possible to include further units to enable transport planners with the necessary education to satisfy the post graduation experience requirements for designation as a Chartered Engineer.
- the IHT/TPS Transport Planning Professional (TPP) qualification, a new professional qualification developed and managed by a partnership between TPS and the Institution of Highways and Transportation, designed to be equivalent status to Chartered Engineer and other comparable professional qualifications.
The TPS Professional Standards and Development Scheme, published on 28 April 2008, are available to Corporate and Stakeholder members of the Society for the implementation and management of their own professional development schemes for transport planners.
The IHT/TPS TPP qualification was launched in March 2008, and is being piloted with two sets of candidates in June and December.
Further information on both the TPS Professional Development Scheme and the TPP qualification is available in the form of a series of questions and answers and some additional information is available here [PDF File - 115kb]
Further details on the TPS Professional Development Scheme are available at info@tps.org.uk
Further details on the TPP qualification are available on the IHT website, or contact info@tps.org.uk.
For the 9th May 2008 Planning Magazine article on the TPS professional standards and development scheme click here
