Understand the challenges, solutions, and overall importance of urban mobility electrification. Gain key insights into successful electrification. To be sustainable and deal with current climate change, our future cities must become greener. For urban mobility (trips generated within a city) that means clean energy must replace fossil fuels. This two-week course from EIT Urban Mobility introduces the challenges faced by cities during that energy transition, and their possible solutions.
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Electrification of mobility: Learning from the past
Urban mobility doesn’t just involve methods of transport. It also includes city spaces and how well they accommodate the trips people take. On this course, you’ll take a closer look at how town planning can influence how fuel is used.
This knowledge will help you evaluate how effectively clean energy has powered urban mobility in the past, looking at specific examples. You’ll learn about previous successes and failures, and how those lessons can be applied when designing future cities.
Look to the present and future of electrification
After you’ve evaluated what worked and what didn’t work for other cities, you’ll get the chance to consider your own. What solutions can you develop to successfully make the energy transition, ensuring that current and future urban mobility needs are met?
Reviewing your city’s transport requirements and objectives, and how to meet them using clean energy, will give you a great opportunity to practice being an effective urban planner. Importantly, you’ll understand what can realistically be done and what town planning changes need to be made now.
Learn with passionate urban mobility experts
The Urban Mobility initiative at EIT is dedicated to making cities more livable by changing the way people move around them. Whether you’re a concerned citizen or a future urban planner, EIT will show you the possibilities of sustainable cities.
Syllabus
Week 1: Electrification and urban mobility
Week 2: The energy transition
Learning on this course
You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explain the current and future possibilities that electrification provides and how they can be applied
- Identify the characteristics of cities that successfully implemented electrification and the methods they used
- Summarise the actions necessary to successfully implement electric-based solutions in your city
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested in the health of current and future cities, including urban mobility and transport industry professionals. Whether you’re a member of the public or an urban planner, you’ll find a wealth of information here.
