Skip to 0 minutes and 4 seconds In many cities around the world, automobiles make up the majority of urban travel. And we need to reduce the burden that they place on our climate. I’m Jago Dodson. I’m a professor of urban policy at RMIT University. My name is Jan Scheurer. I’m honorary associate professor at RMIT University, partly based at RMIT Europe in Barcelona. Our course is about transport and land use integration. And that has been a theme that’s been going on for a long time. Now imagine 150 years back. Most of our movement in cities was on foot and maybe on animals. We did not have any mechanised transport. We did not have any motorised transport.
Skip to 0 minutes and 41 seconds But at the time, here in Barcelona, there was a planner called Ildefons Cerda who actually was one of the first to come up with ideas of integrating the railways, which was then the brand-new technology, into urban planning. And you can see it now. It is very much a mix of all sorts of modes of transport. There’s pedestrians. There’s cyclists. There’s a tram. And we’re going to talk a lot about public transport and how it anchors urban development. We need to understand how to integrate transport networks with urban development and how to support more livable communities, more mixed-use communities that incorporate active travel into daily life connected to transport systems.
Skip to 1 minute and 19 seconds In this course, we’ll look at the challenge of climate change and urban mobility through the lens of transit-orientated development. We’ll learn what is transit-orientated development, how can we bring that about in cities, how to provide good-quality public transport networks, and how to design land use that can support them. And then we’ll look at some of the bigger challenges around governing transit-orientated development, how to bring all the actors in a city together to help solve these problems, looking at how we can evolve our cities to be much more transit-orientated and to support walking and cycling. So thank you very much for taking this course. And I hope you will enjoy the next five weeks.
