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Urban Travel Behaviour: Towards Smarter, Fairer Mobility

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Overview

Discover how streets, services, and policies shape how we move, and how cities can make sustainable travel the easy choice for more people.
Mobility decisions shape our cities, and they are shaped by them in return. From walking and cycling to micromobility and public transport, every trip reflects how design, services, and policies influence daily life.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Explore how city design, transport choices, and everyday habits influence how people move.
  • Identify how personal needs, social factors, and policies shape travel behaviour.
  • Examine how street design, new transport modes, and smarter policies reduce car use and support sustainable mobility.

Audience

This course is designed for planners, transport experts, and city-makers working to improve urban mobility through inclusive design, smarter policy, and practical strategies for more sustainable, efficient cities.

Modules

3 modules

Recommended schedule

2 days

Total length

3 hours

Instructors

This course is inspired from the course developed by RMIT University and EIT Urban Mobility, published on FutureLearn as Changing Urban Travel Behaviour for a Low-Carbon Transition.

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Jago Dodson

Jago Dodson is a Professor of Urban Policy and Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University.

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Jan Scheurer

Jan Scheurer is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University.

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Romaine Logere

Romaine Logere is a transdisciplinary researcher and a lead content writer with RMIT Europe.

Course Syllabus

Module 1: How we move around
Describe how transport modes, urban planning, and behavioural factors influence mobility choices.
Module 2: What shapes how we move?
Identify how individual, social, and policy-driven factors shape travel behaviour and transport decisions.
Module 3: Changing the way we move
Explain how urban design, policy interventions, and new travel modes reduce car dependence and support sustainable mobility.

Free & Paid options

You can access and participate in the course for free. If you want to earn a  certificate upon completion, you can purchase it. The certificate will be accessible only once the course is successfully completed. Read more here.

Course Content

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How we move around
What shapes how we move?
Changing the way we move

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Cynthia Watola
Posted 7 months ago
No course content

I expected accessible course content. Instead there was nothing and the programme registered me as having progressed 25%. Wasted a lot of time trying to navigate and access the content.

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Blanca Fondevila
Posted 8 months ago
An interesting reflection about travel behaviour

It's interesting how storytelling and other techniques can help to engage and provoke a change in behaviour. It's a reminder that making a change it's not only about implementing good solutions but influencing and engaging

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