RMIT University
- Start Date: 26 Dec, 2022
- 5 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Discover how transit-oriented development can be used to tackle the climate crisis to create sustainable and healthier cities.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Understand how city planners are using transit-oriented development
Transit-oriented development (TOD) helps to create sustainable and healthy communities, concentrating residential, business, and leisure spaces all within walking distance of public transport.
On this five-week course, you’ll learn how TOD can help with better land use planning, improve the performance of existing transport systems, and help residents choose more efficient and healthier modes of transport.
This knowledge will help you discover how TOD can help fight climate change with sustainable transport and influence human behaviour for low-carbon mobility.
Delve into climate change mitigation and the Glasgow and Paris Agreement
You’ll unpack the travel demands in urban areas as you start to explore carbon reduction strategies to meet the targets set out in the Glasgow and Paris COP events.
Discovering that electric vehicles aren’t enough, you’ll learn how cities must reduce car dependency. With this knowledge, you’ll understand how TOD can aid a mode shift in people’s transport choices.
Learn how to make transit-oriented development a success
As you unpack your own location’s transit-orientation, you’ll start to explore TOD policies in practice to gain a practical understanding.
You’ll learn strategies for designing for density, creating healthy and liveable cities, and the different accessibility measures to understand how to make TOD a success.
Look to the future of TOD with the experts from RMIT University
Through case studies and interactive exercises, you’ll explore strategic urban development and how TOD can help shape future transport and cities.
You’ll be guided by the specialists at RMIT University to ensure you finish the course with the knowledge of how TOD can help mitigate climate change.
This course is designed for professionals working in, or interested in, sustainable urban development. It will be particularly useful for city decision-makers and officials.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
RMIT University
RMIT is a global university of technology, design and enterprise specialising in art and design; architecture and the built environment; engineering; computer science; and business and management studies.
One of Australia’s original tertiary institutions, RMIT University has over 80,000 students (including 12,000 at postgraduate level) who are undertaking professional and vocational education, applied research, and industry and community engagement.
RMIT has a unique approach to meeting the challenge of being ready for life and work: it offers an education that is deeply grounded in ideas and cross-disciplinary understanding, applied through innovative, enterprising practice to solving problems and meeting the needs of its community.
RMIT’s goal is to offer life-changing experiences, and to shape the world with the talent, knowledge and learning capability that it shares.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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