Planning for Sustainable Transportation

3.0 credits · Undergraduate

Explores issues related to sustainable transportation policy and practice. The course (1) provides an overview of current transportation trends and their impacts; (2) reviews themes such as planning history and politics, the problems with auto-dominated systems, and key challenges to development sustainable transport systems; and (3) looks at regulatory, design, and market-based approaches to reducing automobile-dependency, introducing creative sustainable solutions from around the world.