Urban Mobility Explained
Discover the latest news on urban mobility.
E-courses
Understand urban mobility at your own pace.
Applied Learning
Overcome mobility challenges together with experts & peers.
Check out our applied programmes around Europe:
- 11/10 - 8/11/2022 - Planning for Autonomous Vehicles (in English) - Online
- 17/10/2022 - Low Emission Zones (ZBE) (in Spanish) - Barcelona, ES
- 2/11-1/12/2022 - Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) (in Catalan) - Online
- 4/11-2/12/2022 - Mobility and Digitalization (in Catalan) - Barcelona, ES
- 16/11/2022-28/2/2023 - 15-minute city (in Spanish) - Online
- 21-22/11/2022 - Aspiring to carbon neutrality through mobility management (in French) - Luxembourg, LU
- 21/11-12/12/2022 - Data Space (in English) - Online
- 24-25/11/2022 - Cyclelogistics (in Italian) - Milano, IT
- 30/11-1/12/2022 - Mobility and Digitalization (in Spanish) - Madrid, ES
- 1-2/12/2022 - Mobility data and digital tools (in French) - Brussels, BE
- 8-9/12/2022 - Mobility and real estate (in French) - Brussels, BE
- 26/1/2023 - Virtual Reality (in French) - Brussels, BE
Explore the e-courses
All our courses are made by professionals from around Europe and can be accessed for free. You can also purchase the course and earn a certificate upon completion.
Sustainable Urban Logistics
This course aims to explore supply chain management challenges and possible solutions.
Flexible Curbside Management
This course discusses the benefits of flexible curbside management over traditional curbside management, and how to design a curbside according to users needs.
The effects of Covid-19 on Urban Mobility
This course discusses ongoing trends and mid- to long-term effects of the pandemic in Urban Mobility and cities.
Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) explained
What is MaaS? How it impacts the future of mobility? These are some of the questions that this course tries to answer.
Urban Mobility: Accessibility for ALL
This course looks at tools and methods that deliver urban mobility in the context of universal design. How can we deliver urban mobility for everyone?
Insights into gender differences in urban transport
This course allows you to better understand structural gender differences in Urban Mobility.
Designing a Livable Neighbourhood: The Woonerf Concept
Learn about the history of the Woonerf concept, and how to design livable and accessible Dutch streets.
Preparing for Autonomous Vehicles
This course will give you an understanding of the autonomous vehicles framework.
Active mobility at the heart of transport modelling
In this course, we will talk about the importance of placing active mobility at the same level as motorised transport.
Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)
Understand how cities are transitioning towards Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs).
Demystifying Shared Mobility
This introductory course will give you a glimpse into the shared mobility ecosystem.
Sustainable Parking Management
This course will give you an introductory understanding of what constitutes sustainable and effective parking management in cities.
Superblocks: rethinking cities and urban spaces for citizens
Understand how superblocks are a sustainable, cost-effective and feasible solution to mobility issues in cities.
Planning the Streets of the Future
Reimagine (and animate!) the future of streets in your city.
Free Visualisation Tools for Urban Mobility Planning: Intermediate
Learn how to use Sketchup and Google Earth to redesign a street in your city. Intermediate level.
Understanding Cycling in Europe
Using cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona, Ghent, and Oslo, we take a deep dive into the history, policy, and culture of cycling in European cities.
User Experience for Mobility and Public Space
An introduction to user experience (UX) for urban mobility. Learn to think through the perspective of the end user.
User Experience for Inclusive Cycling in Cities
The course introduces user experience (UX) as a tool for making cycling inclusive, and gives you methods to rethink cycling infrastructure in terms of the end user.
Free Visualisation Tools for Urban Mobility Planning: Beginners
Learn how to use Sketchup and Google Earth to redesign a street in your city. Beginners level.
Designing the Cycling City
A practical course for transportation, design, and planning professionals with a vision for human movement on two wheels.
You can find additional courses* in collaboration with reference universities:
On FutureLearn:
- Transforming Urban Mobility: Governing the Transformation to Sustainable Systems
- Planning for Autonomous Vehicles: A People-Centred Approach
- Electrification of Urban Mobility: How to Get it Right
- Communicative Planning for Urban Mobility
- City Liveability: The Intersections of Place, Mobility, and Health
- Urban Mobility for Liveability
* Please note that you will need to sign in to a different platform to access these courses.
About
This project is funded by EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
Urban Mobility Courses is a collaboration between several European and international companies and organisations: Humankind, Bicycle User Experience (BUX), Cycling Research Review, and more.
Urban Mobility Courses (UMC) is supported by the EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to encourage positive changes in the way people move around cities in order to make them more sustainable and liveable. Within EIT Urban Mobility’s Academy, the Competence Hub provides training programmes and content for professionals working in the field of urban mobility. We leverage the expertise of EIT Urban Mobility’s unique network of 250+ European companies, research institutions, universities and cities, to identify trends and new technologies, highlight key issues or controversies, and to create innovative, practical, and impact-oriented training content.
For more information, please check out the Competence Hub webpage as well as our Youtube Channel Urban Mobility Explained (UMX). UMX hosts a series of short and easy-to-follow videos that showcase cutting-edge practices, inspiring projects, and innovative concepts in urban mobility throughout Europe. It has been designed to highlight thought-provoking perspectives and key competencies needed for the successful delivery of urban mobility solutions and to close the urban mobility knowledge gap.
If you want to know more about us and/or our different training programmes/solutions, please send an email to competencehub@eiturbanmobility.eu.
