VGU Urban Development Planning Overview over Modules and ...

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International
Co-operation
and Urban
Development
Course description
Year One
1 Course identification
2.4.2
2 Module 2.4.
Sustainable urban
infrastructure &
technology
3 Name of course Appropriate Urban Mobility Approaches
4 Course instructor Prof. Dr. Ali Huzayyin, Cairo University
5 Contents /syllabus Recent changes in professional wisdom have led to
renewed conceptions in ‘mobility’ planning. Growng
concerns about clean air, economic development,
congestion management, transportation control
measures and changing urban form have greatly
increased the importance of well planned
transportation facilities and policies. Since the quality
and vitality of the urban environment relate directly to
the nature of its transportation facilities, few other uran
issues are so long-term in impact or so controversial in
solution.
This short course will highlight new directions in the
urban transportation planning process for cities in the
South, discuss its relationship to transportation
facilities development, treat specific techniques of
analysis and evaluation for urban transportation
planning, and discuss possible means of achieving
project and societal objectives. This short course will
include workshop sessions and will introduce
participants to number of forward looking case studies,
like the Metrobus system in Curitiba, Brasil or the
Transmilenio in Bogotà, Colombia. Other best practice
case studies will illustrate approaches of sustainable
transportation systems which may be characterized,
for example, by their aim to reduce emissions, fossil
fuel consumption, the consumption of agricultural land,
park land and wildlife habitat. Most fundamentally, this
means an emphasis on departing from the idea of the
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