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Instructor: Prof. V. Thamizh Arasan, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras. This course is intended for Post Graduate students and research scholars working in the areas of Traffic and Transportation Engineering. Knowledge in the fundamentals of Traffic and Transportation Engineering and Probability and Statistics is the desired prerequisite for the course. The course aims at imparting knowledge on the understanding of urban transportation problems in planners' perspective, the definition of the problem, setting clear goals and objectives to serve as guiding factors in the planning process, identification of the causal factors influencing the demand for urban travel and development of the relationship between the factors and the travel demand. The course also provides adequate exposure to travel demand forecasting and application of the results of the forecasting to identify the right type of transportation system needed to cater to the future demand and quantify the same.

This course provides the basic concepts and skill sets to undertake urban landuse and transportation planning and to analyze the impact of various policies either related to infrastructure development, environmental regulation and urban expansion. This will help future planners to plan for our smart cities in a more comprehensive way. The course focuses on all the key components of urban development including urban demographic transitions, real estate development, residential location choice, land price fluctuations and transportation planning. Additionally, the course focuses on transport infrastructure and freight planning. Apart from providing a comprehensive knowhow about the traditional theories and models of urban transport systems, it also introduces the advanced techniques that are coming up in recent times like activity based models, shared mobility etc.INTENDED AUDIENCE : Bachelor inArchitecture, Bachelor in Planning, Bachelor in Technology(Civil Engineering), Bachelor in Social Science, Master in (Civil Engineering ,City/Urban Planning, Urban Engineering, Transportation Planning, Spatial Data Science, Social science, Technology).PREREQUISITES :Basic knowledge in Urban Planning.INDUSTRIES SUPPORT :All Architecture, Urban Planning, Infrastructure, IT/ITeS and Consultancy Services firms providing solutions for urban and transportation planning.

COURSE OUTLINE: This course provides the basic concepts and skill sets to undertake urban landuse and transportation planning and to analyze the impact of various policies either related to infrastructure development, environmental regulation and urban expansion. ABOUT INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Debapratim Pandit is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has completed his PhD from the Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo in the area of landuse transportation modeling and has more than twelve years of teaching and professional experience. He currently teaches Urban informatics, Advance Transportation Planning, Urban utilities and Services and Development Plans for Post Graduate and Research students

Explore the future of urban transportation in this insightful SXSW 2019 fireside chat featuring David Estrada, Chief Policy Officer of Bird, Josh Rasmussen, CEO of Monday Motorbikes, and Sarah Kaufman, NYU Assistant Professor. Delve into topics such as micro mobility, lightweight electric vehicles, and transportation adoption across age and gender demographics. Gain valuable insights on the evolving landscape of urban mobility, including last-mile solutions, safety concerns, and the impact of data sharing. Learn about the Coalition for All and its efforts to promote inclusive transportation options. Discover how cities are responding to micromobility trends and the potential for mobility as a service. Understand the challenges and opportunities in surveying underserved neighborhoods and the typical range of urban trips. This hour-long discussion offers a comprehensive look at the accelerating changes in urban transportation and their implications for the future.

“Transformative Living Labs in Mobility” introduces living laboratory model of achieving sustainable urban mobility systems. The goal of the course is to explore the ways that multiple stakeholders and agencies organize and investigate living labs to find solutions for urban mobility. Mobility planning plays a key role in building more sustainable cities and providing equitable access to economic opportunities, education, healthcare and social activities. The living lab concept can be a helpful tool to achieve these goals. This co-development process forms coalitions that enable transformative change, addresses climate change, and supports inclusive, sustainable urban development. Urban change makers can use the living labs approach to highlight the benefits of innovations and interventions and test the validity in collaboration with authorities, academia, civil society, private sector and end-users. This course will bring all relevant aspects of living labs together into a coherent approach for testing innovative sustainable mobility solutions in urban living labs, and will highlight interlinkages and priorities in the planning and implementation process. It features projects currently implemented through Urban Pathways and SOLUTIONSplus, and was developed with support from UN Habitat. This course is designed for learners in: international organizations local or national governments consultancies private industry and finance incubators and start-ups Especially important are audiences in developing countries, where urbanization and transportation infrastructure are rapidly developing and outdated, inequitable, and carbon-intensive approaches may be leapfrogged.

Learn about the Transportation System Planning Concepts with this Course! What you'll learn: Overall foundation on Transportation System Planning ProcessDifferent Aspects to Transportation Planning (Transit, Roads, Freight etc)Management and OperationAsset Management Transportation System Planning Fundamentals is a comprehensive video course where you can learn industry specific knowledge about system planning such as that found in the transportation industry.I have handcrafted this course to allow students to acquire core fundamental knowledge on how to develop the key knowledge needed to do effective strategic decision making throughout the transportation planning process.I will teach you the basic concepts of the transportation planning framework as well as different bits and pieces on how to create an effective transportation plan. I will also go over the management and operations of the transportation system so that you will have a solid understanding as to how the transportation system functions.If you are a professional who are interested to work as planner for the transportation industry, you will find this course of great help to get the fundamental knowledge you need to enhance your professional career.This course can help you to get an advantage at work or getting a job as it gives you core knowledge in Transportation System Planning that you would not have otherwise obtain unless you have worked in the industry. And knowledge is power. So let's get started! Let's start your fulfilling journey and mark an important point of your phenomenal career in this industry!

Discover the power of compassionate leadership in transportation policy through this TEDx talk by Amanda Eaken, Chair of the Board of Directors of San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency. Explore the challenges and rewards of co-creating transportation policies and projects with over 800,000 diverse and engaged citizens in one of the world's most vibrant cities. Gain insights into the importance of trust in government and its role in shaping effective urban planning. Learn from Eaken's extensive experience, including her work as Director of the Bloomberg Philanthropies' American Cities Climate Challenge and her leadership at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Understand how her approach to sustainability and equitable mobility choices has earned her recognition as a Top 100 Influencer and 40 Under 40 Business Leader. Delve into the intersection of urban planning, climate action, and community engagement in this thought-provoking 18-minute presentation.

This course is a refined version of the Post-Graduate course (ID6004) “Planning, Operation and Management of Transportation Facilities” which is being currently taught to the students of Infrastructure Design and Management at IIT Kharagpur. The course’s primary objectives are to: 1. Identify the sustainability principles in transportation 2. Introduce the concept of Travel Demand Management (TDM) 3. Disseminate the techniques of urban public transit planning, operations and management 4. Imbibe the concepts of non-motorized urban transport 5. Demonstrate the applications in intelligent transportation systems (ITS)

This course is refined version of the Post-Graduate course (ID6004) “Planning, Operation and Management of Transportation Facilities” which is being currently taught to the students of Infrastructure Design and Management at IIT Kharagpur. The course’s primary objectives are to: 1. Identify the sustainability principles in transportation 2. Introduce the concept of Travel Demand Management (TDM) 3. Disseminate the techniques of urban public transit planning, operations and management 4. Imbibe the concepts of non-motorized urban transport 5. Demonstrate the applications in intelligent transportation systems (ITS)INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG Civil Engineering, PG Civil Engineering (Transportation), UG Urban Planning, PG Urban PlanningPREREQUISITES :NoneINDUSTRIES SUPPORT :Urban Local Bodies,Transport Network Companies (TNCs), Public transportation operating companies and administrators

Watch a symposium lecture from the 4th International Symposium of Urban Policy Unit for Low-Carbon Society where Dr. Yulin Jiang, Director of China Urban Sustainable Transport Research Center and Secretary of Technical Committee of National Urban Passenger Transport Standardization, presents insights on transportation development policies for creating low-carbon cities in China. Explore key strategies and approaches for sustainable urban transport systems while learning about China's initiatives toward reducing carbon emissions in its rapidly growing cities. Delivered in December 2011, this comprehensive talk provides valuable perspectives on integrating environmental considerations into urban transportation planning.

Discover the importance of collaborative (communicative) planning Urban planning includes a complex stakeholder network, presenting many difficulties for urban mobility and transportation professionals. This four-week course will help you explore different approaches, cases, and applications of collaborative planning as a solution to solve challenges. What’s more, you’ll learn how to answer the many questions raised when trying to implement this strategy. By the end of this engaging online course, you’ll understand how successful and sustainable urban mobility planning depends on the collaboration between citizens and communities, city officials, private businesses, and other stakeholders. Increase your confidence operating in a VUCA world To deepen your understanding of the complexity and context of the operational environment that planners work in, you’ll learn about policymaking and its impact on urban mobility planning. This knowledge will help you gain the skills and confidence to operate effectively in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) world. Learn how to select the right tools for urban and transportation planning Throughout the course, you’ll discover different ways to engage with all stakeholders. You’ll learn how to select the right communicative and participatory planning tools and how to apply them in planning processes. You’ll also identify the best practices for social media engagement from a planning point of view. Through this examination, you’ll be able to reflect on your own work and understand how to apply these tools to your project. By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills to make your engagement process smoother and understand how to spread this knowledge among your team for more effective practices. This course is designed for urban mobility and transportation professionals, and urban planners. It will also be useful for other professionals in the public and private sectors working in urban mobility and transportation.

In this course, you will learn the basic knowledge of ecology and the basic elements, characteristics, structure and functions of urban ecosystem, so as to have a primary understanding of those key ecological theories and urban ecological environment issues, and be able to analyze and interpret urban and rural construction and development issues from the perspective of ecosystem. After the department of theoretical lecture, we will discuss the spatial planning at different scales and apply the corresponding ecological concepts to the planning and design. At the regional scale, large-scale territorial spatial planning and functional zoning are realized through ecological carrying capacity analysis, ecological sensitivity analysis and land suitability evaluation, delineating the boundaries of urban space, agricultural space and ecological space, and formulating ecological protection strategies for mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasslands. Urban green space can not only improve the environment, but also maintain the balance of carbon and oxygen, improve urban climate, protect biodiversity, and prevent and reduce disasters. We will explain how to use landscape ecology methods to do a green space planning in a large metropolitan area. At a local scale, we focus on eco-city design, including sponge cities, garden design using low-impact development technologies, and the Eco-communities (settlements), which are key to deal with climate change and energy challenges in the future. China is a multi-ethnic country composed of 56 ethnic groups with a long and profound history. We will dig into the unique ecological wisdom of ethnic minorities and explore the planning and design of ethnic minority settlements (villages) that respect ecological laws and inherit excellent cultural spirits, including the ecological landscape planning of farmland in rural areas with biodiversity conservation as the orientation. At a small scale, we will talk about a green building design and an courtyard design case. All teachers of this course are from the School of Architecture, Southwest Minzu University. They have been engaged in the research of urban and rural ecology and environmental planning for a long time and have plentiful scientific research achievements. At the same time, they are all registered urban and rural planners and landscape architects, with abundant practical design experience. Looking forward to your joining us！

This course will provide students with an introduction to sustainable regional principles, regional planning concepts and evaluate regional transportation system issues. This will be achieved through dynamic video lectures, practical case studies and the evaluation of practices for success. These will include discussions of the importance of the regional plan, how to engage community involvement, the importance of understanding a development transect and others. Strategies for growth priorities, along with consideration of available housing and food security will also be addressed. The concepts of providing a rural preserve and a rural reserve will be evaluated and mapping of key aspects of the region, such as neighborhoods and districts will be explained. Evaluation of regional transportation systems will be addressed including multi-mobile balance and building choices into the transportation system modes. The considerations for including a regional railway system along with accommodating user mobility and accessibility will be explored. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Formulate the relationship between regional principles, smart growth, and sustainability. - Evaluate growth priorities, community involvement and scale of governance to achieve sustainable smart growth. - Evaluate and explain regional mapping of rural preserves, rural reserves, neighborhoods, and districts as important tools in regional smart growth planning. - Describe the implications of mapping corridors and regional centers to the overall smart growth planning at the regional level. This course is for : - Government Officials involved planning, designing, monitoring, enforcement, and assessment of sustainable project developments at the local, state, and federal level. - Private sector companies in the transportation and municipal design and construction business. - Architects interested in advancing sustainable concepts for cities and communities. - Foundations, associations, and other NGOs that support smart growth strategies. - Academic faculty and students studying and researching community sustainability and resilience. - Private citizens interested in improving their communities and living conditions. The following list identifies background knowledge that will help you succeed in this course. - helpful to have a general understanding of how public/private projects are planned and implemented - have a strong interest or experience in planning and developing regional sustainable development plans - familiar with how government organizations function in the areas of transportation planning and project development - served as a volunteer committee member or leader on regional transportation projects and/or regional policy development initiatives - have a background and interest in environmental protection plans and projects - a general knowledge of regional transportation project planning and implementation - general knowledge or experience in public participation in governmental policy development - a strong interest and/or experience in improving the urban environment for the benefit of its citizens - have a general knowledge of legal and policy issues involved in sustainable development - have experience or general knowledge of social equity issues

Explore the intricate relationship between urban planning and geopolitical strategies in this thought-provoking TEDx talk. Delve into Sofiane Madmar's analysis of how city design is often influenced by political and geopolitical objectives, shaping urban landscapes to reflect power dynamics and influence. Drawing from his background in sustainable planning and social sciences, Madmar examines historical and contemporary examples of urban design reinforcing dominance. Gain insights into the impact of urban environments on societies and the hidden political motivations behind city planning decisions. This 13-minute presentation offers a unique perspective on the intersection of urban development, politics, and geopolitics, challenging viewers to reconsider the forces shaping our cities.

Explore mathematical models and planning techniques for urban infrastructure networks in this insightful 31-minute lecture by Sir Alan Wilson, CEO of the Alan Turing Institute. Delve into the complexities of city planning and discover how mathematical approaches can be applied to optimize urban systems. Gain valuable insights into the intersection of mathematics, urban planning, and infrastructure development, as presented by a leading expert in the field. Produced by the Isaac Newton Institute, this talk offers a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities in creating efficient and sustainable urban environments.

Explore the complexities of transportation equity in this 51-minute conference talk by Amanda Stathopoulos from Northwestern University. Delve into the challenges of distributing benefits and costs fairly in transportation systems, particularly in the context of car-oriented development in the United States. Examine how subjective equity viewpoints and personal experiences shape perceptions of fairness in transit systems. Learn about the importance of incorporating community members' perspectives into analytical frameworks for assessing transportation equity. Discover potential applications for agencies in shaping future policies, engagement strategies, and understanding customer behavior. Gain insights into the need for balancing objective and subjective explanations of perceived inequities in transportation planning and analysis.

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Explore the basics of urban design. Learn how to create a roadmap for growth and design healthier, more sustainable neighborhoods.

Explore a Ben Taskar Memorial Distinguished Lecture and Annual Accessibility Event focusing on equitable transportation planning tools utilizing the TDEI Infrastructure. Presented by Anat Caspi from the Taskar Center, this 32-minute talk delves into innovative approaches for creating more inclusive and accessible transportation systems. Learn about cutting-edge technologies and methodologies designed to address transportation equity challenges and improve mobility for all community members. Gain insights into how the TDEI Infrastructure can be leveraged to support data-driven decision-making in urban planning and policy development. Whether you're a transportation professional, urban planner, policymaker, or simply interested in creating more accessible cities, this lecture offers valuable perspectives on the intersection of technology, equity, and urban mobility.

Discover how urban transport can be made more sustainable Good transport systems and projects are critical to the development of sustainable cities. On this course, you’ll consider the Avoid-Shift-Improve (ASI) framework – particularly the ‘Shift’ and ‘Improve’ dimensions – as key components of a sustainable urban mobility strategy. Learn why sustainable cities are important As cities grow, transport and city planners have to identify how to reduce emissions in an urban landscape still dominated by cars. Creating transport systems that encourage sustainable travel behaviours is crucial. You’ll learn how to improve public transport, walking and cycling and how to improve the environmental impact of vehicles. Explore the future of urban mobility You’ll examine some of the key components of sustainable urban mobility, including the instruments of traffic demand management and the different types of public transport, including metro, tramway, bus rapid transit, cable car, and other means of travel. Understand traffic management and streetscape design You’ll consider the role of active mobility and streetscape design and the potential of vehicle technologies to improve environmental performance. Finally, you’ll come away able to identify how effective decision-making and participatory processes help us to develop innovative transport strategies. This course is intended for transport and city planning practitioners in the Global South, including in Africa, South America, and Asia. This includes academics, researchers, students, and those working in national and city authorities, consultancies, and civil society. It will have wider interest for other interested stakeholders and members of the public, including for those in the Global North. Indeed, it will be of interest for anyone who is keen to understand how sustainable urban mobility can support the planning of great cities. This course follows on from Transforming Urban Mobility: Introduction to Transport Planning for Sustainable Cities. We recommend you complete that course before this one.