Avoid-Shift-Improve Planning Transport

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Transforming Urban Mobility Course

Urban planning is essential for supporting the use of public transport, walking, and cycling. Discover through our two-part course how sustainable urban mobility is most effectively delivered and how integrated urban and transport planning help to improve welfare through travel behaviors. Furthermore, you will find out how sustainable land use planning helps to improve welfare by shaping urban areas and neighborhoods into healthier, more efficient spaces.

 

Teaching Format: Digital
Starting Date: Scheduled
Duration: 9 weeks
Language: English

Part 1: Introduction to Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities

This course explores the impacts of motorization, our current unsustainable travel patterns, and the framework for changing to sustainable urban mobility.

It is designed for transport and city planning practitioners in the Global South, academics, researchers, students, national and city authorities, consultancies, and interested stakeholders and members of the public.

The goal of the course is to explore the instruments of traffic demand management, explore different types of public transport, debate the role of active mobility and streetscape design, and assess effective decision-making and participatory processes.

Trainers include Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Viviane Weinmann, and Lena Plikat.

Duration: 4 weeks (weekly study 3 hours)

Net Time Effort: 12 hours

Register directly on the course website of the FutureLearn Plattform

Part 2: Components of Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities

This second part of the Transforming Urban Mobility Course is intended for transport and city planning practitioners in the Global South, including academics, researchers, students, and those working in national and city authorities, consultancies, and civil society.

It covers the Avoid-Shift-Improve (ASI) framework, the future of urban mobility, the instruments of traffic demand management and the different types of public transport, the role of active mobility and streetscape design, the potential of vehicle technologies to improve environmental performance, and how effective decision-making and participatory processes help us to develop innovative transport strategies.

It follows on from Transforming Urban Mobility: Introduction to Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities, and by the end of the course, the target group will be able to identify how sustainable urban mobility can support the planning of great cities.

Trainers include Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Viviane Weinmann, and Lena Plikat.

Duration: 5 weeks (weekly study 3 hours)

Net Time Effort: 15 hours

Register directly on the course website of the FutureLearn Plattform

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