Urban Mobility and Transport Planning Training Course

Participants can define institutional roles and stakeholder arrangements for mobility planning and delivery.

• Identify municipal, regional, national and operator responsibilities for transport decisions
• Map stakeholder interests, influence, incentives and likely sources of resistance
• Use RACI matrices to assign planning, approval, funding and delivery accountabilities
• Align mobility plans with statutory land-use plans and capital investment programmes
• Set consultation principles for residents, businesses, operators and vulnerable road users
• Document interagency coordination arrangements through terms of reference and protocols

Participants can specify and interpret a practical evidence base for urban mobility decisions.

• Build baseline indicators from census, surveys, ticketing, counts and administrative records
• Design household travel surveys using trip diaries, sampling frames and expansion factors
• Conduct classified traffic counts, pedestrian counts and public transport load surveys
• Use origin-destination matrices to identify major travel markets and desire lines
• Assess data quality through completeness, consistency, representativeness and temporal coverage
• Create baseline dashboards linking mobility outcomes to geographic areas and population groups

Participants can assess how land-use patterns shape transport demand and access to opportunities.

• Measure accessibility to jobs, education, health care and public services
• Compare cumulative-opportunities, gravity-based and travel-time accessibility measures
• Identify transit-oriented development conditions around stations, corridors and interchanges
• Analyse density, diversity, design and destination accessibility using the 5Ds framework
• Map first-mile and last-mile barriers around major public transport stops
• Test land-use scenarios against transport capacity, service coverage and walkability

Participants can develop credible demand assumptions and planning scenarios for mobility options.

• Estimate trip generation from population, employment, land use and household characteristics
• Apply trip distribution principles to connect origins, destinations and travel markets
• Interpret mode-share patterns by income, gender, location and trip purpose
• Develop reference, policy and investment scenarios with explicit assumptions
• Forecast demand impacts from pricing, service changes and land-use growth
• Record scenario assumptions in an auditable planning assumptions register

Participants can formulate pedestrian improvements using network, safety and universal-design criteria.

• Audit pedestrian networks for continuity, directness, comfort, safety and attractiveness
• Apply universal design principles to footways, crossings, gradients and waiting areas
• Prioritise missing links using pedestrian desire lines and accessibility barriers
• Assess crossing treatments using exposure, vehicle speeds, delay and visibility
• Plan pedestrian catchment areas around schools, markets, stations and civic facilities
• Specify public-realm improvements supporting shade, seating, lighting and wayfinding

Participants can define coherent cycling and micromobility networks with appropriate facility types.

• Classify cycling corridors by traffic speed, volume, width and conflict conditions
• Select protected lanes, shared streets and mixed-traffic treatments by street context
• Plan connected cycling networks using directness, continuity and intersection safety
• Locate cycle parking using demand generators, security requirements and interchange needs
• Assess shared micromobility operations, geofencing, parking controls and fleet management
• Integrate cycling with public transport through station access and fare arrangements

Participants can develop public transport network concepts based on demand, coverage and interchange needs.

• Match bus, bus rapid transit, rail and paratransit modes to demand
• Design route hierarchies using trunk, feeder, local and express service functions
• Balance network coverage against frequency, directness, transfer penalties and operating costs
• Plan interchange hubs around passenger flows, walking distances and transfer quality
• Use service span, headway and reliability targets for network design
• Assess fare integration options across operators, modes and customer groups

Participants can assess public transport operations and specify service-quality improvements.

• Calculate commercial speed, cycle time, fleet requirement and scheduled headway
• Diagnose reliability using on-time performance, headway variation and passenger waiting time
• Apply Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual service measures
• Identify bus priority treatments at corridors, stops, intersections and terminal approaches
• Set passenger information, accessibility, security and customer-care service standards
• Review operator contracts using output specifications, incentives and performance deductions

Participants can evaluate traffic operations while protecting street access, safety and multimodal function.

• Classify street functions by movement, place, access and public-realm roles
• Estimate intersection performance using Highway Capacity Manual level-of-service concepts
• Compare signal timing, roundabouts, turn restrictions and junction redesign options
• Apply corridor management measures including access control and signal coordination
• Assess person-throughput rather than vehicle-throughput for street allocation decisions
• Use traffic-calming measures to manage speeds on local and mixed-use streets

Participants can prepare parking, kerbside and freight measures that support efficient street use.

• Estimate parking demand using occupancy, duration, turnover and accumulation surveys
• Set parking pricing and time controls based on occupancy targets
• Allocate kerbside space among loading, buses, cycling, taxis and pedestrians
• Plan urban freight routes, delivery windows and loading-zone management
• Assess consolidation centres, cargo cycles and off-peak delivery options
• Integrate parking policy with public transport, land use and demand management

Participants can identify road safety risks and develop Safe System interventions.

• Analyse crash data by severity, road user, location, time and contributing factors
• Apply Safe System principles to speeds, roads, vehicles and post-crash response
• Conduct road safety audits for proposed schemes and operational streets
• Identify high-risk locations through crash frequency, exposure and severity analysis
• Select speed-management measures using street function and vulnerable-user exposure
• Develop road safety action plans with responsibilities, targets and monitoring indicators

Participants can assess whether mobility policies provide fair access across population groups.

• Segment mobility needs by income, gender, age, disability and location
• Measure transport affordability using household expenditure and income-based thresholds
• Assess personal security risks during walking, waiting, transfers and travel
• Apply gender-responsive transport planning to routes, facilities and service information
• Identify accessibility barriers faced by persons with disabilities and older people
• Use distributional analysis to compare who benefits and who bears costs

Participants can incorporate emissions, air quality and climate risks into mobility proposals.

• Estimate transport emissions from vehicle activity, fuel use and fleet composition
• Compare mode-shift, vehicle-efficiency and electrification measures using emissions pathways
• Assess roadside air pollution exposure near schools, markets and dense housing
• Screen transport assets for flooding, heat, landslide and extreme-weather risks
• Plan resilient routes, drainage, emergency access and service continuity measures
• Set climate and air-quality indicators for mobility programme monitoring

Participants can create integrated mobility packages and screen them against agreed criteria.

• Generate policy, operations, street-design and capital-investment alternatives systematically
• Bundle complementary measures into corridor, district and citywide mobility packages
• Define screening criteria for accessibility, cost, safety, equity and deliverability
• Apply multicriteria analysis with transparent weights, scores and sensitivity testing
• Identify dependencies between land use, service reform and infrastructure investments
• Document rejected options and rationale within an alternatives assessment

Participants can appraise mobility investments using economic, financial and distributional evidence.

• Distinguish economic appraisal from financial viability and budget affordability
• Estimate capital costs, operating costs, renewals and whole-life expenditure
• Value travel-time, vehicle-operating, crash and emissions benefits using appraisal parameters
• Calculate net present value, benefit-cost ratio and internal rate of return
• Conduct sensitivity analysis for demand, cost escalation, delays and benefit assumptions
• Prepare distributional-impact statements for fares, land value and affected businesses

Participants can select practical funding, procurement and delivery arrangements for mobility programmes.

• Identify funding sources including budgets, grants, fares, charges and land-value capture
• Match delivery models to asset risk, operating risk and institutional capacity
• Compare traditional procurement, design-build and public-private partnership structures
• Define procurement packages around market capability, interfaces and implementation sequencing
• Prepare output-based specifications for transport services and infrastructure maintenance
• Assess affordability gaps, contingent liabilities and long-term operating commitments

Participants can translate selected mobility measures into sequenced and accountable implementation plans.

• Sequence quick wins, medium-term programmes and long-term capital investments
• Develop work breakdown structures, milestone plans and critical-path schedules
• Assign owners, approvals, dependencies and escalation routes using implementation matrices
• Build risk registers covering political, financial, technical, legal and delivery risks
• Prepare stakeholder engagement plans for contested street and pricing measures
• Specify change-management actions for operators, enforcement teams and affected communities

Participants can design monitoring systems that track delivery, outcomes and unintended effects.

• Construct theory-of-change models linking interventions, outputs, outcomes and impacts
• Select indicators for accessibility, reliability, safety, emissions, equity and affordability
• Set baselines, targets, data sources, collection frequencies and reporting responsibilities
• Design before-and-after evaluations using comparison areas and consistent measurement methods
• Use dashboards to report programme progress, service performance and public outcomes
• Establish review cycles for corrective action, budget reallocation and plan updates

Participants can build, review and present a complete urban mobility plan with prioritised actions, appraisal and implementation arrangements.

• Define a city mobility problem, target area and evidence-based baseline
• Prepare integrated measures covering active travel, transit, streets and demand management
• Screen alternatives using accessibility, safety, equity, climate and affordability criteria
• Prioritise actions through appraisal results, delivery readiness and institutional feasibility
• Develop implementation schedules, funding approaches, responsibilities and risk controls
• Present the completed mobility plan for peer review and decision-maker feedback