Urban Mobilities and Sustainability

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

This course combines two methods of learning: lectures; problem-based learning.

A required pre-class reading introduces the topic of a lecture which is further elaborated in the class through lecture. Lectures are facilitated by the use of visual aids, discussions, and other engaging techniques.

In the problem-based learning approach, real-world problems are used as the vehicle to promote student learning of concepts and principles. Case stories present the information and issues of real-life cases for which students apply their knowledge to devise probable answers to the questions raised.

Learning Outcomes

After finalising this course, students should be able to:

- Recognise, and characterise mobility patterns and transport systems

- Explain the relationships between mobility patterns, territorial characteristics, and sustainability issues

- Review relevant scientific texts about urban sustainable mobility

- Select and employ quantitative and qualitative techniques for analysing mobility behaviours and transport systems

- Compare and debate the environmental, social, and health effects of different mobility solutions

- Recognise and formulate problems that are amenable to mobility management solutions

- Develop and propose solutions to mobility management problems, using principles of urban and mobility planning

- Present analyses and findings of a problem-based project in a proper format of a written and oral report.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

This course will be developed around the following themes:

1. Past and present trends in mobility

a.   Mobility patterns and territories

b.   Environmental, social and health effects of mobility systems

2. New perspectives on mobility

a.   Energies and vehicles

b.   New mobility services and urban logistics

c.   Emerging mobility patterns

3. Planning for sustainable mobility

a.   Integrated planning of mobility and territories

b.   Mobility management – acting on the demand-side

c.   Low carbon strategies and mobility planning: decision processes and instruments.     

Head Lecturer(s)

Jorge Miguel Nunes Padeiro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 20.0%
Resolution Problems: 30.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Deakin, E. (2020). Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Gudmundsson, H., Marsden, G., & Josias, Z. (2016). Sustainable transportation: Indicators, frameworks, and performance management. Heidelberg: Springer.

Mulley, C., Nelson, J., & Ison, S. (2021). The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport. London: Routledge.

Nieuwenhuijsen, M., & Khreis, H. (2019). Integrating human health into urban and transport planning. Cham: Springer.