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Planning for Autonomous Vehicles: A People-Centred Approach

Successfully incorporate autonomous vehicles into sustainable urban planning For sustainable future cities, the way people use and move around urban spaces must be reviewed. The town planning done now will have massive impacts on city dwellers’ quality of life in the years to come. This course will explore how autonomous vehicles should be incorporated into sustainable …

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Electrification of Urban Mobility: How to Get it Right

Gain key insights into successful electrification To be sustainable and deal with current climate change, our future cities must become greener. For urban mobility (trips generated within a city) that means clean energy must replace fossil fuels. This course introduces the challenges faced by cities during that energy transition, and their possible solutions. Electrification of …

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

Fundamentals of Urban Mobility

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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Tackling noise pollution in cities

The propagation of noise that can have a harmful impact on the activities of humans and wildlife is known as noise pollution.The growing levels of environmental noise worldwide have caused multiple environmental and health problems, including sleep disturbance, annoyance and irritability, heart disease, or learning difficulties, among others. Major sources of noise pollution include road, railway …

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Artificial Intelligence in Urban Mobility

Recently, people keep talking about AI applications like ChatGPT and think that they are transforming our lives. In fact, AI technology has been implemented quietly into transport systems and is influencing the ways that we move around without our notice. With the support of real-time data, these AI applications are making impacts in different aspects, …

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Last Mile Logistics

You might not see it but you are generating it. When you order a package online, when you do your groceries, when you shop in a library… a whole logistics chain has been set into motion before you get to touch the goods. The most challenging part of this chain is the end of this …

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Multimodal transport: why a diversity of modes for healthy cities?

This short course will give you an understanding of the relevance of multimodality systems. It presents the main attributes of the different modes and several examples of their presence in a sample of cities Upon completion of this course, you will understand the challenges, solutions and that their adoption as a key element in urban …

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Hydrogen Technologies for a Sustainable Urban Mobility

We know that climate change and the rise of energy demand are two megatrends that are challenging the way we live… and the way we move around our cities. Something needs to change, and energy is at the center of this change. In this course, you will discover why hydrogen can be one of the main …

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Urban Air Mobility: using the space above our cities

This course provides an overview of what is meant by the term ‘Urban Air Mobility’ and how it could benefit society in the near future. It will explore current attitudes towards Urban Air Mobility and drone technology based on current research and public and stakeholder engagement. The purpose of the course is to equip learners …

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A Brief Introduction to Micromobility

In this course, we explore how micromobility fits into the overall urban mobility landscape, what the opportunities and challenges are and how policies and operations could work together. The final module will look at the emerging trends that will influence the future of micromobility. Outcomes: you’ll… – understand what micromobility is and its impacts (positive …

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