Urban Mobility for Liveability

Understand how a green city promotes a sustainable lifestyle for its residents

Changes to urban mobility can play a huge part in creating more sustainable cities and communities. It can help influence active transport behaviour such as walking and can help reduce health inequities.

This dynamic five-week course from RMIT University and EIT Urban Mobility will help you learn the key elements of mobility-driven transformations that help promote citizen health and wellbeing, as well as improving city sustainability and liveability.

Explore the best built environments for liveability

On this course, you’ll get a close look at the various ways that the attributes of a built environment (including its mobility options and infrastructure) can be measured.

This will show you the importance of aligning mobility attributes with public health. You will learn how new policy developments can be formulated to develop healthy cities and sustainable communities.

Assess changes made to urban mobility environments

You will also learn how to evaluate which mobility changes are effective in developing more liveable and healthy cities, and communities. You will be equipped for planning the right balance of specific changes, enabling viable sustainable cities and communities.

Study sustainability with urban planning and healthy cities experts

RMIT has an international reputation for excellence in urban design education. You will receive excellence in academic leadership. We will guide you in the planning of cities that foster healthier communities.

You will also benefit from the knowledge of renowned leaders in the design of sustainable communities and cities.

This course is designed for urban mobility students and professionals with an interest in creating liveable green cities and communities that improve and sustain the health of both their residents and the environment.

This course is designed for urban mobility students and professionals with an interest in creating liveable green cities and communities that improve and sustain the health of both their residents and the environment.

• Analyse new liveability frameworks linked to the social determinants of health, involving explicit consideration of health, equity, sustainability and quality of life .
• Apply these frameworks through indicators to support evidence-based decision-making in policy and programs.
• Measure interventions and economic benefits associated with mobility and health.
• Expand considerations to multiple benefits of safety, social connection and belonging, cultural expression and environmental health .
• Explain qualitative indicators to measure grounded and diverse perspectives associated with a locality .
• Consider on-ground implementation through specific examples and encouraging collaboration and community engagement in co-design.