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Sustainable Urban Mobility

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to support students to: - Describe Sustainable urban mobility, its evolution, concepts and principles. - Identify sociological and cultural, urban political, demographic and ethnic issues and their impact on the urban mobility and vice versa. - Apply concepts of sustainable urban mobility in city plans proposals. - Examine the complex relationship between transportation, land use and urban form. - Conduct research and collect data about mobility from different sources (field work, archival records, internet….etc).
  • Course Goals
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    The relationship between transportation, land use and urban form, and the varied instruments available to planners seeking to influence this relationship. how different urban accessibility pathways impact directly on other measures of human development and environmental sustainability. The enabling conditions for increasing accessibility and low-carbon mobility in cities and what makes a city or neighborhood livable. The effectiveness of applying policies of green transportation in urban areas.
  • Arabic Description

    العلاقة بين النقل واستخدام الأراضي والشكل الحضري، والأدوات المتنوعة المتاحة للمخططين الذين يسعون للتأثير على هذه العلاقة. كيف تؤثر مسارات الوصول الحضرية المختلفة بشكل مباشر على التدابير الأخرى للتنمية والاستدامة البيئية. الظروف التمكينية لزيادة إمكانية الوصول والتنقل منخفض الكربون في المدن وما الذي يجعل المدينة أو الحي صالحًا للحياه. مدى فاعلية تطبيق سياسات النقل الأخضر في المناطق الحضرية.
  • Department
    Urban Planning
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (15) + tr.Major Assessment (45 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (35)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
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  • • GIZ. (2016). Tools for Sustainable Urban Transport Experts
  • • Haas, Tigran. 2012. Sustainable urbanism and beyond: rethinking cities for the Future. Rizzoli, UK and NY.
  • • Hensher, David A, Kenneth Button. 2000. Handbook of Transport Modelling. Pergamos Press, UK.
  • • Hensher, David A, Kenneth Button, Handbook of Transport Modelling. Pergamon Press, 2000.
  • • J. Rainovich and J. Leitmann (1996). “Urban Planning in Curitiba” from Scientific American. (page 411-421 from “The Sustainable Urban Development Reader.” Eds by Stephen M. Wheeler and Timothy Beatley, 2014)
  • • Lall, S. (2009
  • • Ngai Weng Chan, Hidefumi Imura, Akihiro Nakamura, Masazumi Ao (2016). "Sustainable Urban Development Textbook" Global Cooperation Institute for Sustainable Cities, Yokohama City University, Water Watch Penang, Penang
  • • Pelsmakers, S. 2012. The Environmental Design Pocketbook. London: RIBA.
  • • Un-Habitat. (2013). Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility. London: Routledge.• T. Beatley (2013). “Planning for Sustainability in European Cities: a Review of Practice in Leading Cities.” (page 422-431 from “The Sustainable Urban Development Reader.” Eds by Stephen M. Wheeler and Timothy Beatley, 2014)
  • • Small, K. A., & Verhoef, E. T. (2007). The economics of urban transportation. London: Routledge.
  • • UN Sustainable Development Goals https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
  • • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. )2009(. Measuring Sustainable Development (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/801Measuring_sustainable_development.pdf)
  • • World Business Council for Sustainable Development. (2015). “Methodology and indicator calculation method for sustainable urban mobility”. Technical report 978-2-940521-26-5 (2015) - Agarwal, O. P.; Padam, Gouthami; Bahuguna, Aroha; Pena, Salvador. (2014). Urban Transport Data Analysis Tool (UT-DAT) : user's manual (English). Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). Washington, DC ; World Bank Group.