Transport engineers’ methods and designs alter existing structures. People’s technological products create people as products of technology. From small-scale application of fair share policies to large-scale ubiquitous access policies, the ethics of transport and settlement systems play an important role. Too often, ethics are not considered appropriately, are overlooked or even ignored. However, engineers do not act detached from ethical values. A frequent practice among engineers is to adopt ethics of good intention instead of ethics of responsibility for their interventions. Engineers use models which represent only a window of reality. As engineers perceive what they have learned to perceive, education is of critical relevance. In our contribution we first carve out the dimension and importance of transport engineering ethics by referring to philosophers of technology including Jacques Neirynck, Günther Anders and Daniela Bailer-Jones and by giving examples. Adding to this we introduce the approach at the Research Center of Transport Engineering (IVV) at Vienna University of Technology (VUT) to engineering students’ ethics education by providing three lecture series covering a very broad view on transport. Zooming in from general ethics concepts to mode-related points of view, these lecture series are: “Ethics and technology”, “Barrier-free transport planning for public spaces” and “Cycling in the city”. These lectures do not only provide an extended viewpoint from other engineering branches but also – which is most valuable – add perspectives from sociology, public health, law, philosophy and religion to transport planning.

education; engineers; ethics; lectures