Sustainable Transport Planning Training Course

Participants can frame transport objectives that connect climate, access, economic and public health priorities.

• Policy hierarchy linking national targets, city plans, and project decisions
• Set outcome objectives using SMART indicators and documented baseline values
• Align transport objectives with nationally determined contributions and climate plans
• Institutional mapping of transport authorities, operators, regulators, and communities
• Define decision rights through a RACI matrix for plan delivery
• Reconcile economic growth, access, safety, emissions, and resilience objectives

Participants can establish a transport emissions baseline and test the effects of proposed measures.

• GHG Protocol Scope 3 categories relevant to employee and visitor travel
• Calculate vehicle emissions from activity data, fuel use, and emission factors
• Separate tailpipe emissions, electricity emissions, and upstream lifecycle emissions
• Build a transport emissions baseline by vehicle type and trip purpose
• Scenario assumptions for vehicle kilometres, occupancy, mode shift, and technology
• Avoid double counting between fleet inventories, municipal inventories, and operators

Participants can select coherent interventions using the Avoid-Shift-Improve framework.

• Avoid-Shift-Improve framework for organising transport emissions reduction measures
• Avoid trips through land-use proximity, telework, and service digitalisation
• Shift trips toward walking, cycling, transit, shared mobility, and rail
• Improve vehicle efficiency through electrification, maintenance, and operational management
• Package complementary measures rather than selecting isolated technology projects
• Identify rebound effects from faster travel, cheaper parking, and induced demand

Participants can define active travel networks that are safe, accessible and connected to destinations.

• Complete-streets principles for allocating street space among competing users
• Pedestrian network audits covering crossings, shade, lighting, gradients, and obstructions
• Cycling network hierarchy: protected lanes, neighbourhood routes, and intersections
• Universal design requirements for wheelchair users, older persons, and children
• Safe-system approach to speed management, visibility, and conflict reduction
• First-and-last-mile connections between active travel routes and transit stations

Participants can assess public transport services and identify practical network improvement options.

• Network design using corridors, transfer points, frequency, and service span
• Route performance measures: passengers, load factor, reliability, and cost recovery
• Bus priority treatments including dedicated lanes, signal priority, and queue jumps
• Integrated fares, ticketing, information, and timed-transfer service coordination
• Service planning for peripheral settlements, low-density areas, and vulnerable users
• Operator contracts linking payment to kilometres, reliability, and passenger outcomes

Participants can assess climate risks to transport assets, services and users.

• ISO 14091 climate risk assessment applied to transport systems
• Hazard mapping for flooding, heat, landslides, storms, and coastal inundation
• Exposure analysis for roads, bridges, depots, stations, and evacuation routes
• Assess vulnerability of passengers, operators, maintenance crews, and communities
• Service continuity planning for disrupted routes, power outages, and communications
• Prioritise adaptation actions using likelihood, consequence, cost, and feasibility

Participants can assess vehicle transition pathways for public, corporate and service fleets.

• Fleet segmentation by duty cycle, mileage, payload, dwell time, and depot access
• Total cost of ownership comparison for electric, hybrid, and combustion vehicles
• Charging strategy using route energy demand, dwell windows, and grid capacity
• Battery degradation factors: temperature, charging rate, depth, and cycling
• Procurement specifications for vehicle range, warranties, safety, and data reporting
• Operational transition risks involving maintenance skills, spare parts, and electricity tariffs

Participants can identify freight measures that reduce emissions, congestion and kerbside conflict.

• Freight flow mapping by commodity, vehicle type, delivery window, and destination
• Urban consolidation centres and microhubs for last-mile delivery operations
• Kerbside management using loading zones, booking systems, and enforcement
• Route optimisation principles for reducing empty running and failed deliveries
• Low-emission zones, delivery restrictions, and exemption design considerations
• Cold-chain and construction logistics requirements affecting freight transition options

Participants can develop demand-management measures that influence travel choices and road use.

• Parking management hierarchy: pricing, supply controls, permits, and enforcement
• Estimate parking occupancy, turnover, duration, and revenue using field surveys
• Congestion charging design: cordons, distance pricing, exemptions, and technology
• Employer travel plans covering commuting, business travel, parking, and flexible work
• Behavioural insights for testing incentives, defaults, messages, and travel information
• Equity assessment of pricing measures for low-income and transport-dependent groups

Participants can connect land-use choices with lower-carbon travel and improved accessibility.

• Transit-oriented development principles: density, diversity, design, distance, and destination access
• Catchment analysis around stations using walking distance and barrier mapping
• Parking maximums, mixed use, and frontage requirements supporting shorter trips
• Assess development proposals against transit capacity and active travel connections
• Value capture mechanisms: betterment levies, joint development, and land readjustment
• Prevent displacement through affordable housing, tenure protections, and consultation

Participants can integrate safety, health and local air quality into transport planning decisions.

• Safe System principles for preventing fatal and serious road injuries
• Crash-data analysis by road user, location, severity, and contributing factors
• Speed management tools: area limits, calming, cameras, and street redesign
• Estimate health benefits from physical activity, reduced pollution, and injury prevention
• Air-quality indicators including PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide, and roadside exposure
• Co-benefit narratives linking transport investments to public health priorities

Participants can assess how transport decisions affect different users and communities.

• Equity screening using income, disability, gender, age, and location data
• Gender-responsive mobility analysis covering trip chaining, safety, and care work
• Affordability metrics using fare burden, travel time, and household expenditure
• Participatory mapping methods for capturing lived experience and informal travel patterns
• Design safeguards for resettlement, street vendors, and informal transport workers
• Distributional analysis of who benefits, pays, and bears implementation risks

Participants can compare transport options using transparent technical, financial and social criteria.

• Multi-criteria analysis using weighted emissions, access, cost, safety, and resilience criteria
• Define evaluation criteria, scoring scales, evidence sources, and decision thresholds
• Capital and operating cost estimates using quantities, unit rates, and contingencies
• Lifecycle costing for vehicles, charging systems, infrastructure, and maintenance
• Sensitivity analysis for fuel prices, ridership, exchange rates, and demand
• Create an investment pipeline ranked by readiness, impact, cost, and risk

Participants can identify financing structures and procurement requirements for transport measures.

• Match funding sources to infrastructure, operations, fleet, and maintenance requirements
• Municipal budgets, grants, concessional finance, and private participation structures
• Revenue sources from fares, parking, road charges, advertising, and land value
• Procurement routes: design-bid-build, performance contracts, concessions, and framework agreements
• Technical specifications that require emissions reporting, accessibility, and durability
• Bid evaluation criteria balancing price, lifecycle cost, quality, and delivery risk

Participants can plan stakeholder engagement that improves transport measure acceptance and delivery.

• Stakeholder mapping by influence, interest, impact, and implementation responsibility
• Engagement plans for residents, businesses, operators, unions, and civil society
• Consultation methods: interviews, focus groups, workshops, surveys, and street intercepts
• Frame trade-offs honestly when reallocating road space or introducing charges
• Manage objections through evidence, mitigation measures, and documented response logs
• Political economy analysis of winners, losers, veto points, and coalition building

Participants can convert selected measures into sequenced, accountable implementation programmes.

• Implementation sequencing across quick wins, enabling actions, and capital projects
• Work breakdown structure defining tasks, owners, dependencies, and acceptance criteria
• Risk register covering approvals, funding, procurement, public acceptance, and delivery
• Governance arrangements for cross-agency coordination, escalation, and decision-making
• Change-control process for revised scope, budget, timeline, and performance targets
• Communications calendar aligned with consultations, procurement milestones, and service changes

Participants can create a monitoring system for transport, climate and access outcomes.

• Results framework linking inputs, outputs, outcomes, impacts, and assumptions
• Indicator selection for emissions, mode share, accessibility, safety, and reliability
• Before-and-after evaluation design using comparison areas and consistent measurement periods
• Data governance rules for ownership, privacy, quality assurance, and retention
• Dashboard specifications for management decisions, public reporting, and corrective action
• Annual review cycle using monitored results to revise transport measures

Participants can assemble the technical sections of an integrated sustainable transport plan.

• Plan structure covering baseline, objectives, measures, delivery, financing, and monitoring
• Translate diagnostic findings into quantified targets and intervention priorities
• Develop intervention fiches with scope, rationale, costs, risks, and owners
• Check consistency between emissions scenarios, budgets, timelines, and institutional capacity
• Prepare maps, tables, decision logs, and evidence annexes for review
• Use peer review criteria to identify gaps, conflicts, and unsupported assumptions

Participants can build, review and present a complete sustainable transport plan for a defined area or organisation.

• Define the planning area, mobility problem, scope, and target users
• Present baseline access, emissions, safety, and climate-risk evidence clearly
• Select an integrated Avoid-Shift-Improve intervention package with stated assumptions
• Prioritise investments through multi-criteria analysis, cost ranges, and implementation readiness
• Set governance, financing, stakeholder engagement, and monitoring arrangements
• Defend the completed plan against peer review and decision-maker questions