Programme Structure for 2025/2026
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Transitions and Strategies for Sustainable Mobility
6.0 ECTS
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Digital Transition in Mobility
6.0 ECTS
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Mobility Regulations and Governance
6.0 ECTS
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Conceptualisation of Sustainable Mobility
6.0 ECTS
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Financing and Investment in Mobility Projects
6.0 ECTS
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Transitions and Strategies for Sustainable Mobility
LO1. Understand the extent of the current challenges of decarbonization and sustainable development in transportation in light of the historical evolution of transport.
LO2. Familiarize participants with the socio-technical concepts and theories of transitions, allowing for a greater understanding of the factors and processes of change in mobility.
LO3. Recognize the different mobility alternatives, namely the difference between individual transport and collective, shared, and active transport, and the role of individual preferences in environmental and socioeconomic implications.
LO4. Learn about policies and measures to promote sustainability in transport, enabling trainees to systematically understand and evaluate these policies.
LO5. Empower trainees to assess the impact of different sustainable mobility strategies, particularly in terms of logical-interpretive reasoning and simulation techniques based on energy balances.
S1 Mobility: a history of disruptions.
S2 The range of externalities: emissions, pollution, congestion, accidents, social exclusion.
S3 The cost of externalities.
S4 Decarbonization goals of the National Energy and Climate Plan.
S5 Strategies for decarbonizing mobility: options and mitigation potential.
S6 Global perspective on the electrification of mobility.
S7 Historical and prospective analyses of transportation under decarbonization and sustainable development.
S8 Sustainable socio-technical transitions in mobility.
S9 Mobility alternatives, consumer preferences, and environmental and socioeconomic impacts.
S10 Policies for sustainability in transport.
S11 Simulation of sustainable mobility strategies.
Individual written test in an asyncronous mode (100%)
The passing grade is 10 points.
"SLOCAT (2021), Tracking Trends in a Time of Change: The Need for Radical Action Towards Sustainable Transport Decarbonisation, Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report - 2nd edition Decarbonising Transport in Europe: The Way Forward.International Transport Forum, 2021 Decarbonizing Mobility Forum: Amsterdam 2023.McKinsey & Company, 2023 Manual da Mobilidade Elétrica .UVE-EDP, 2020 CleanBusPT - Transporte Público Urbano em Portugal: O caminho para as zero emissões. Jose Gomes Mendes, Fundação Mestre Casais, 2022 Decarbonisation and the Pricing of Road Transport: Summary and Conclusions ITF (2023), ITF Roundtable Reports, No. 191, OECD Publishing, Paris. Grubler, A., Wilson, C., Bento, N., Boza-Kiss, B., Krey, V., McCollum, D. L., ... & Valin, H. (2018). A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies. Nature energy, 3(6), 515-527."
Digital Transition in Mobility
LO1. Define the fundamental concepts of Smart Cities and Urban Mobility.
LO2. Explain the principles of data-based decision-making, including the importance of collecting, processing, analysing and interpreting infrastructure and mobility data.
LO3. Describe and demonstrate good practice in data collection, storage and protection.
LO4. Analyse real-time and historical data using appropriate methods, visualisation techniques, modelling and performance indicators.
LO5. Apply techniques to optimise networks and routes, manage and control traffic, manage parking systems.
LO6. Develop solutions to urban mobility challenges, including transport sharing strategies and road safety measures.
LO7. Compare and differentiate different approaches and technologies used in Smart Cities.
LO8. Critique and synthesise the knowledge acquired to formulate effective action plans for urban mobility projects.
The syllabus for this course covers the following topics:
CP1. Introduction to Smart Cities and Urban Mobility
CP2. Fundamentals of Data-driven Decision Making in mobility projects
CP3. Data Security
CP4. Data Analysis
CP5. Practical Applications
CP6. Digital Urban Mobility
CP7. Digital Urban Mobility Technologies
CP8. Infrastructures for Digital Urban Mobility
CP9. MaaS and Shared Mobility
CP10. Ticketing and Payment Systems in Urban Mobility
CP11. Practical Applications and Case Studies
This programme aims to provide comprehensive and up-to-date training on the main challenges and solutions in urban mobility and smart cities.
Individual written test in an asyncronous mode (100%)
The passing grade is 10 points.
https://smart-cities-marketplace.ec.europa.eu/ https://urban-mobility-observatory.transport.ec.europa.eu/index_en Transportation Research Board; Highway capacity manual. ISBN: 978-0-309-16077-3 Dios Ortuzar, J., & Willumsen, L. G. ; Modelling transport, John wiley & sons, 2011 Institute of Transportation Engineers ; ed. James L. Pline; Traffic Engineering Handbook. ISBN: 0-13-926791-3
Mobility Regulations and Governance
LO1. Understand the main policies and regulations underlying sustainable mobility, enabling trainees to systematically comprehend and evaluate these policies.
LO2. Recognize the importance of reducing various types of emissions associated with the transport sector within the national and European political, strategic, and regulatory frameworks.
LO3. Familiarize participants with the concepts of digitalization and decarbonization of mobility, aiming for a better understanding of the Carbon market.
LO4. Establish a new hierarchy of transport modes that promotes sustainable mobility, allowing trainees to integrate new concepts, policies, and strategies regulating the mobility sector.
LO5. Empower participants to develop processes for integrating stakeholders in the development of sustainable mobility solutions.
S1. Mobility and the objectives of the United Nations 2030 Agenda
S2. The urgency of reducing emissions in the transport sector: strategy and regulations
S3. Promotion of active mobility (walking and cycling): national strategies
S4. The primacy of public transport: the impact of the new Portuguese legal framework
S5. Restricting car circulation in sensitive areas: from new urban planning concepts to coexistence
S6. Stakeholder theory
S7. Tools to analyse stakeholders interests
S8. Tools for co-creation with stakeholders
Individual written test in an asyncronous mode (100%)
The passing grade is 10 points.
Lei de Bases do Clima Lei nº 98/2021 de 31 de dezembro Roteiro para a Neutralidade Carbónica 2050 (RNC2050). Ministério do Ambiente e Transição Energética, 2019 Estratégia Nacional para a Mobilidade Ativa Ciclável 2020-2030. Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 131/2019 Estratégia Nacional para a Mobilidade Ativa Ciclável 2020-2030. Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 67/2023 Regime Jurídico do Serviço Público do Transporte de Passageiros (RJSPTP) Lei nº 52/2015 Decarbonising transport by 2050: A TDA manifesto on how to reach net zero emission mobility through uniting Countries, Cities / Regions and Companies. Transport Decarbonisation Alliance, 2018 Cars and Space Consumption: Rethinking the Regulation of Urban Mobility. Crozet, Y. (2020), International Transport Forum Discussion Papers, No. 2020/13, OECD Publishing, Paris. Decarbonisation and the Pricing of Road Transport: Summary and Conclusions ITF (2023), ITF Roundtable Reports, No. 191, OECD Publishing, Paris.
Conceptualisation of Sustainable Mobility
LO1. Comprehend the principles and elements of sustainable urban mobility plans
LO2. Identify indicators that can measure the effectiveness of sustainable plans
LO3. Recognize practices and policies that promote multimodality and the integration of urban and mobility planning
LO4. Use tools to identify the objectives of sustainable mobility plans
S1. Overview, objectives of sustainable mobility plans and implementation challenges
S2. SUMPs and impact indicators for mobility plans
S3. Inclusiveness of mobility
S4. Public transport and multimodality
S5. Integration of territorial planning and mobility planning
Individual written test in an asyncronous mode (100%)
The passing grade is 10 points.
1, ITF (2024), Improving the Quality of Walking and Cycling in Cities: Summary and Conclusions, ITF Roundtable Reports, No. 193, OECD Publishing, Paris 2, PATHWAYS TO A MULTIMODAL LIFESTYLE: REINFORCING PUBLIC TRANSPORT WITH ACTIVE AND MICROMOBILITY, UITP Policy Brief. October 2023 3. Fernadez-Heredia and Fernadez-Sanchez (2020). Processes of civic participation in the implementation of sustainable urban mobility systems. Case studies on Transport Policy, 471-483. 4. Rupprecht Consult (editor), Guidelines for Developing and Implementing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, Second Edition, 2019. 5. ITF (2021), Travel Transitions: How Transport Planners and Policy Makers Can Respond to Shifting Mobility Trends, ITF Research Reports, OECD Publishing, Paris.