Transit-Oriented Development for Climate Mitigation in Urban Centres

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.

• Climate change and mobility
• Climate policy and transport
• Electric vehicles to the rescue?
• Changing transport, changing cities
• Weekly wrap
• What is TOD?
• How do cities integrate transit options?
• The healthy city dimension
• TOD in urban planning
• Weekly wrap
• Transit accessibility and infrastructure
• Mobility and accessibility: what's the difference?
• How public transport enables TOD
• Network thinking: Accessibility measures for assessing TOD potential
• Weekly wrap
• TOD and the future of cities
• Strategic urban development
• Transforming cities with TOD
• Weekly wrap
• TOD and future transport
• TOD and the tamed motor vehicle
• TOD, shared and micro mobility
• Enabling TOD
• It’s a wrap