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Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) – Updated

Explore Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) in this course. Grasp the model’s role in city transitions, ensuring integrated solutions and sustainability in technical, economic, environmental, and social aspects. Delve into challenges and learn from successful examples shaping urban landscapes. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Explain why sustainable urban mobility […]

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Demand Responsive Transport (DRT): Where does it fit?

By Luiza Quaglio

In a world where convenience is key, we need adaptable transportation systems that cater to the ever-changing needs of passengers. This is where demand responsive transport (DRT) can help us. Let’s explore what DRT can do for you to help create a place where urban mobility is efficient, flexible, and accessible to all. Are you

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±15-Minute Cities: Putting People’s Needs First

By Luiza Quaglio

15-minute cities have been gaining a lot of attention lately, some positive and some negative. Some cities implement the concept considering 10 or 20 minutes distances, but the idea is the same. But what are 15-minute cities really? And how can this human centred approach to urban planning help create more sustainable environments? This course

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Superblocks: rethinking cities and urban spaces for citizens (updated)

By Luiza Quaglio

This short course will give you an introductory understanding of how superblocks are a sustainable, cost-effective and feasible solution to mobility issues in cities. Upon completion of this course, you will understand: • The concept of a superblock and where it originates• The social, economic and environmental impacts of the superblock model.• The potential opportunities and limitations

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Street of a city with people, tram and other vehicles.

Fundamentals of Urban Mobility

By laura.alvarez

This course introduces the fundamentals of urban mobility planning. Mobility choices affect all aspects of city life: from economic efficiency to social inclusion, sustainability, and quality of life. These choices shape and reshape cities in irreversible ways. Urban life is much better for everyone when we invest in mobility for all, not just car users.

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Insights into gender differences in urban transport

By Luiza Quaglio

Do you consider urban transport to be gender neutral? Most planners and decision-makers do. Looking at it more closely you will however see that men and women have different travel patterns and mode usage and that transport planning is unconsciously biased towards traditional male travel patterns and modes! Many urban transport professionals are not aware

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Urban Mobility: Accessibility for ALL

By Luiza Quaglio

Welcome! In our modern city lifestyle we take it for granted that we can choose among various modes of transport, that we can use public spaces in reasonable comfort and safety. In an ideal, universally designed, city this would actually be the case for all of us. In this short course we talk about accessibility

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Sustainable Parking Management

By Luiza Quaglio

This short course will give you an introductory understanding of what constitutes sustainable and effective parking management in cities and upon completion of this course, you will understand the issues related to parking in urban areas, and strategies to overcome them. This EIT Urban Mobility course was produced with the support of transport policy researcher

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Active mobility at the heart of transport modelling

By Luiza Quaglio

Welcome! As cities grow and expand, the needs of those who live in them also change and evolve. The way we move reflects, to a great extent, the way we live, wouldn’t you agree? In fact, this is also true about the way we do not move, and there is a lot of not-moving, especially in

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Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)

By Luiza Quaglio

Welcome to the EIT Urban Mobility course on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)! This short course will give you an understanding of what a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) is. Upon completion, you will understand how cities are transitioning towards this model to provide integrated solutions to transport and mobility, guaranteeing technical, economic, environmental, and social sustainability to their residents. You will

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