Spring 2027

Transportation and the Built Environment

Investigates multi-modal transportation, travel behavior, and urban form at multiple scales, considering public health, environmental, economic, and social equity outcomes.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Carey Mcandrews

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.96 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.68 GPA, 87.9% A/AB (n=33 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand major debates, issues, and theories in transportation, land use, urban design, and travel behavior at the site, neighborhood, regional, and global scales.

  • Develop and apply strategies for collecting and analyzing data representing built environment and transportation issues such as travel behavior.

  • Appreciate the roles of officials, stakeholders, and community members in making decisions about transportation and built environments.

  • Appreciate economic, social, cultural, technological, and environmental factors in urban and regional growth and change.

  • Develop one’s professional identity by envisioning a future self (and possibly make plans that build on the course experience), evaluating one’s own learning, and assessing one’s own strengths and weaknesses.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Senior standing

  • Senior standing
URBRPL 550

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.96 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.68 GPA, 87.9% A/AB (n=33 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CAREY MCANDREWS is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.96 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.68 GPA, 87.9% A/AB (n=33 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Multi-modal transportation, travel behavior, and urban form
  • Site, neighborhood, regional, and global scales
  • Public health, environmental, economic, and social equity outcomes

Skills

  • Collecting and analyzing data on built environment and transportation issues
  • Evaluating one's own learning and assessing personal strengths and weaknesses

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1286 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
URBRPL 550 · Spring 2027

Transportation and the Built Environment

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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