Transport Infrastructure Project Management Training Course

Duration 10 days 16 modules · 65 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Transport Project Managers, Project Engineers and others
Fee from USD 2,200 KSh 190,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 9 Nov 2026 Course code SD-CM-097

Before you join: Participants should have experience contributing to construction, engineering, public works or asset delivery projects.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Transport infrastructure projects face demanding public scrutiny, fixed funding windows, complex land and utility interfaces, and operational constraints that do not pause while construction proceeds. Road corridors, rail upgrades, ports, airports and urban transit schemes require project managers to connect engineering scope, procurement strategy, programme controls, stakeholder commitments and safety obligations. Poorly defined requirements, unmanaged interfaces and late risk decisions can lead to claims, possession overruns, service disruption and loss of confidence from funders and communities.

This course develops the practical management skills required to plan, control and close transport infrastructure projects from early definition through handover. Participants work with the business case, work breakdown structure, critical path method, risk register, earned value metrics, change control, procurement plans and interface management arrangements. The programme addresses the features that distinguish transport schemes: operational railway or highway possessions, traffic management, utility diversions, environmental consents, land access, contractor coordination and asset handback.

Instructor-led sessions combine short technical briefings with transport project cases, team planning work, schedule and risk simulations, and structured reviews of participant projects. During the first week, participants create core planning and control documents for a transport scheme. The second week develops these materials through procurement, delivery, assurance, reporting and handover decisions. Participants leave with a complete transport infrastructure project management pack, including scope, programme, risk, stakeholder, procurement, controls and handover components that can be adapted for current work.

The course is suited to professionals managing or supporting capital projects for transport authorities, ministries, contractors, consultants, operators, airport owners, port authorities and major asset-intensive organisations. It is particularly relevant where projects must be delivered while maintaining safe and reliable public services.

What you will be able to do

  • Define transport project scope using requirements traceability and a work breakdown structure
  • Build an integrated baseline programme using critical path method and milestone logic
  • Prepare a risk register with quantified exposure, response owners and escalation thresholds
  • Develop stakeholder and interface management plans for operators, utilities, communities and regulators
  • Select procurement and contract administration approaches using FIDIC and NEC4 principles
  • Control cost and schedule performance using earned value metrics and forecast methods
  • Manage change, claims, quality assurance and safety obligations during construction delivery
  • Present a complete transport infrastructure project management pack for governance review

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Produce credible baseline plans for transport construction packages and project stages
  • Lead interface discussions with operators, utilities, designers and delivery contractors
  • Identify schedule threats before they become possession, access or commissioning failures
  • Communicate project status using evidence-based cost, risk and progress reporting
  • Build a reusable project management pack for current or future infrastructure assignments

For your organisation

  • Improves control of scope changes, utility dependencies and third-party interfaces
  • Reduces avoidable delay through clearer milestone, possession and access planning
  • Strengthens project reporting for sponsors, funders, boards and public authorities
  • Creates more consistent risk, change and claims records across capital projects
  • Supports safer handover of completed assets into operational service

Course modules

16 modules over 10 days

Participants can define a transport project’s lifecycle, governance structure and success criteria.

  • Transport asset lifecycle stages from strategic need through handback and renewal
  • Stakeholder map covering road, rail, port, airport and utility interfaces
  • Project success criteria balancing capacity, safety, reliability, cost and carbon
  • Systems thinking for interfaces between civil works, operations and maintenance
  • Governance roles under sponsor, client, delivery partner and operator models
  • Stage-gate decisions aligned with business case maturity and approvals

Participants can translate an approved need into measurable project objectives, benefits and boundaries.

  • Five Case Model components for public transport investment decisions
  • Benefits map linking outputs, outcomes, operational changes and strategic objectives
  • Problem statement tested against demand, capacity, safety and reliability evidence
  • Options appraisal using cost-benefit analysis, multi-criteria analysis and affordability
  • Assumptions log recording demand, funding, consent and delivery dependencies
  • Project definition statement establishing boundaries, exclusions and key constraints

Participants can establish controlled scope baselines from stakeholder and technical requirements.

  • Requirements traceability matrix linking user needs, design criteria and verification
  • Work breakdown structure separating assets, systems, enabling works and services
  • Scope baseline combining approved requirements, WBS dictionary and acceptance criteria
  • Define operational requirements for capacity, availability, maintainability and resilience
  • Interface requirements between transport systems, utilities, stations and depots
  • Acceptance criteria for civil works, systems integration and asset handback

Participants can build a logic-driven baseline programme for transport project delivery.

  • Critical path method logic linking design, procurement, construction and commissioning
  • Develop work packages from the approved work breakdown structure
  • Milestone schedule for consents, land access, possessions and service entry
  • Resource-loaded schedules identifying labour, plant, materials and specialist constraints
  • Calendar assumptions for night work, possessions and seasonal construction limits
  • Schedule quality checks using missing logic, excessive lags and open ends

Participants can plan construction access while protecting live transport operations and users.

  • Possession planning for railway access, isolation, protection and restoration activities
  • Traffic management plans maintaining road capacity, pedestrian access and emergency routes
  • Airport airside permits, work windows and operational coordination controls
  • Port marine access constraints affecting dredging, berth works and cargo operations
  • Constructability reviews against operational restrictions, access routes and staging requirements
  • Operational readiness criteria before reopening roads, railways and passenger facilities

Participants can establish cost baselines, forecasts and control thresholds for project decisions.

  • Cost breakdown structure aligned with work packages, contracts and funding categories
  • Estimate classes and contingency allowances for concept, design and construction stages
  • Quantity-based estimating using drawings, specifications, productivity rates and unit costs
  • Time-phased cost baseline matched to programme activities and payment milestones
  • Forecast final cost using commitments, accruals, actuals and remaining risk
  • Management reserve rules distinguishing known risks from unidentified uncertainty

Participants can assess, quantify and manage transport delivery risks and opportunities.

  • Risk breakdown structure covering technical, commercial, operational and external threats
  • Risk register fields for cause, event, effect, owner and response
  • Probability-impact scoring calibrated through agreed likelihood and consequence definitions
  • Monte Carlo schedule risk analysis using duration uncertainty and logic links
  • Quantitative risk analysis for contingency ranges and confidence levels
  • Early warning indicators for land, utility, consent and supply-chain risks

Participants can plan stakeholder engagement and regulatory actions that protect project commitments.

  • Stakeholder salience analysis using power, legitimacy and urgency attributes
  • Engagement plan for communities, businesses, operators, regulators and elected representatives
  • Consultation records capturing commitments, concerns, responses and accountable owners
  • Environmental impact assessment obligations, mitigation measures and consent conditions
  • Land acquisition and access coordination through parcel registers and permissions
  • Escalation routes for public complaints, media issues and political sensitivities

Participants can match delivery and contract approaches to transport project risks and constraints.

  • Procurement strategy comparing design-bid-build, design-build, alliance and construction management
  • Packaging decisions for enabling works, civils, systems and specialist equipment
  • FIDIC contract families and allocation of design, ground and payment risks
  • NEC4 options, early warnings and compensation event administration principles
  • Tender evaluation criteria balancing price, capability, methodology and programme certainty
  • Supplier due diligence covering capacity, financial standing, safety and past performance

Participants can administer project contracts through notices, records, valuations and claims prevention.

  • Contract administration plan defining authorities, correspondence rules and record retention
  • Notice requirements for delay, differing conditions, disruption and change events
  • Payment certification supported by measurement records, progress evidence and approvals
  • Change orders documenting scope, price, time and risk allocation
  • Claims avoidance through contemporaneous records, meeting minutes and programme updates
  • Dispute escalation using negotiation, adjudication, mediation and arbitration pathways

Participants can measure cost and schedule performance and report exceptions to governance forums.

  • Earned value management metrics for planned value, earned value and actual cost
  • Schedule performance index and cost performance index interpretation limits
  • Progress measurement rules for design, procurement, construction and testing activities
  • Control account structure connecting scope, budget, schedule and accountable managers
  • Monthly reporting pack covering milestones, risks, changes, safety and forecast outturn
  • Exception reports distinguishing variance causes, impacts, decisions and recovery actions

Participants can control technical and organisational interfaces through defined ownership and verification.

  • Interface register identifying physical, functional, contractual and operational boundaries
  • Interface control documents specifying inputs, outputs, dates and acceptance conditions
  • RACI matrix assigning responsibility for cross-package decisions and deliverables
  • Systems engineering V-model linking requirements, design, integration and verification
  • Configuration management for drawings, specifications, software versions and asset data
  • Integration testing sequence for civil assets, power, signalling and communications

Participants can establish assurance arrangements for quality, safety and environmental compliance.

  • ISO 9001 quality plans defining inspections, test points and nonconformance handling
  • Inspection and test plans for earthworks, structures, track and pavement
  • Construction safety management under ISO 45001 principles and permit systems
  • Environmental management plans addressing noise, dust, water, waste and biodiversity
  • Independent assurance reviews for design maturity, readiness and safety critical work
  • Nonconformance reports tracking containment, root cause, corrective action and closure

Participants can assess changes and prepare recovery actions for threatened project commitments.

  • Integrated change control from request intake through approval and baseline update
  • Change impact assessment covering scope, cost, programme, risk and operations
  • Trend register identifying emerging issues before formal change requests
  • Delay analysis using as-planned versus as-built and time impact methods
  • Recovery schedules using resequencing, resource adjustment, acceleration and scope prioritisation
  • Decision logs recording options, approvals, conditions and accountable decision-makers

Participants can plan asset commissioning, operational handover and project closeout evidence.

  • Commissioning plan sequencing installation, testing, trial operations and acceptance
  • Operational readiness reviews covering people, procedures, spares and emergency arrangements
  • Asset information requirements for drawings, maintenance data and configuration records
  • Handover checklist covering defects, warranties, training, manuals and certificates
  • Defects management process assigning owners, due dates and closure evidence
  • Lessons learned review converting delivery evidence into future project actions

Participants can build, review and present a complete transport infrastructure project management pack for governance approval.

  • Assemble scope, requirements, schedule, budget and risk baselines into one pack
  • Reconcile stakeholder commitments with access, possession and operational constraints
  • Review procurement strategy, contract risks and interface ownership assignments
  • Test control thresholds against cost, schedule, safety and quality scenarios
  • Present governance decisions, escalation routes and recovery actions to reviewers
  • Defend handover readiness using evidence from assurance and commissioning plans

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Transport project charter template
  2. Integrated baseline programme model
  3. Quantified risk register template
  4. Stakeholder and interface management plan
  5. Project controls reporting pack
  6. Commissioning and handover checklist

Who should attend

  • Transport Project Managers — need structured controls for multi-party capital delivery
  • Project Engineers — coordinate technical packages, interfaces and construction information
  • Programme Managers — govern portfolios of road, rail, aviation or port schemes
  • Client-Side Project Officers — oversee consultants, contractors and approval decisions
  • Construction Managers — plan site delivery around operational and access constraints
  • Commercial Managers — manage procurement, change notices, claims and payment evidence

Skills and tools covered

Transport programme planningInterface managementProject controlsRisk quantificationContract administrationAsset handover planning

Tools and standards

FIDIC Conditions of Contract, NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract, ISO 9001, ISO 45001

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to introduce transport delivery methods, followed by case analysis, group planning tasks, document reviews and decision simulations. Participants work with realistic road, rail, airport and port project information, including scope statements, programmes, risk data, contract notices and stakeholder concerns. Facilitated discussions examine trade-offs between cost, time, safety, operations and public commitments. Individual application planning helps participants adapt the methods, templates and controls to live projects or upcoming assignments.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have experience contributing to construction, engineering, public works or asset delivery projects. They should understand basic project terms such as scope, schedule, budget, contractor and risk, and be able to read simple drawings, programmes and progress reports. Experience in transport, civil engineering, rail, roads, airports or ports is useful but not essential. This is an intermediate course, so it is not intended as a first introduction to project management. Formal project management certification, advanced scheduling software skills, engineering design qualifications and prior contract administration experience are not required.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

You should have experience supporting or managing construction, engineering, public works or asset projects. Formal certification and advanced scheduling software skills are not required, but familiarity with basic project terms is expected.

Bring details of a current or planned transport project if your employer permits this. A scope statement, programme extract, risk register or monthly report will help you adapt the course methods to real work.

It is intended for project managers, engineers, construction managers, client representatives, programme staff and commercial personnel involved in transport capital projects. It suits road, rail, airport, port and urban transit delivery environments.

The course focuses on constraints specific to transport assets, including live operations, possessions, traffic management, utilities, land access, systems integration and asset handover. General project methods are applied through transport project cases and documents.

Participants build planning and control materials that can be adapted for current assignments, subject to employer procedures. The templates support scope definition, programme reviews, risk workshops, stakeholder planning, reporting and handover preparation.

Each training day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours. The first week builds core definition, planning, cost and risk materials; the second week develops procurement, controls, assurance, delivery and handover work before the final capstone presentation.

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