Changing Urban Travel Behaviour for a Low-Carbon Transition

Discover how to transition human behaviour for low-carbon travel

The impacts of climate change present significant challenges for the development, sustainability and resilience of cities. Decarbonising transport is vital to prospects of mitigating dangerous climate change but requires changes in travel, which will affect people’s lives.

On this two-week course from RMIT University, you’ll explore the question: how do we understand and influence human behaviour and choices for low-carbon mobility? Through innovative solutions, case studies, and experts in the field, by the end of this course, you should start to formulate an answer.

Disover the structural, cultural, and psychological factors influencing behaviour

Travel behaviour is influenced by a range of interdependent factors, from structural factors such as how cities are built to a person’s personal values.

You’ll explore the many different factors involved in people’s transport decisions, including current policies and the often difficult logistics of using low-carbon transport.

Discover innovative solutions aiming to change transport behaviour

A large aspect in driving positive change, especially when it comes to transport behaviours, is the policies and mechanisms surrounding transport and how they can more favourable conditions.

This course will guide you through some of the innovative policy changes hoping to create a greener future by improving the ease of using low-carbon transport.

Learn from the experts at RMIT University

As the largest urban research hub in the southern hemisphere, RMIT University provides an intellectual home for multidisciplinary urban researchers to successfully execute global and local initiatives.

This course has also been co-designed together with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

This course is designed for urban mobility students and professionals with an interest in the mobility infrastructure required for inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable living.

• Determinants of transport behaviour
• Modes of transport
• Structural factors influencing transport behaviour
• Cultural and psychological factors influencing mobility behaviours
• Weekly wrap
• How to influence transport behaviour in policy terms?
• Changing your travel behaviour
• Reducing the dominance of cars in the urban space
• Fare-reduced or fare-free public transport and its impacts
• Micromobility in urban and regional areas
• Weekly wrap