Organization: UN Institute for Training and Research
Registration deadline: 13 Sep 2017
Starting date: 18 Sep 2017
Ending date: 08 Dec 2017
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries
E-learning
Presented by UNITAR and GIZ,
Do you wish to gain a comprehensive overview of urban planning and governance as a means for fostering sustainable development in your community, village, country or neighbourhood? Then we invite you to join the online programme Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries .
The rapid and often unplanned and uncoordinated growth of cities has seriously compromised existing transportation systems and significantly increased the challenge of creating new transportation systems, especially in developing countries. It is indeed in developing countries that the greatest growth in motor vehicles has been seen in the past few years and is expected in the future, primarily in urban areas. The environmental and social impacts are significant and directly related to quality of life and urban productivity. These impacts include congestion, energy consumption, air pollution, and traffic crashes. Thus, urban transportation issues are of foremost importance to support the mobility requirements in these growing cities and require new approaches.
This course offered in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and UNITAR, aims to enhance the capacity of local decision makers and urban and transportation planners to formulate and implement appropriate policies that contribute to sustainability in urban transport in developing countries. It allows an analysis of the important issues of sustainable transport including transport demand management, improved public and non-motorized transport, environmental protection, road safety, and gender in transport. In order to achieve sustainability, it also provides some means such as economic and financial instruments, institutional improvements, capacity building, regulation of markets and environmental standards.
How to register:
To register, go to UNITAR website:
https://www.unitar.org/event/full-catalog/sustainable-urban-mobility-developing-countries-3