Transportation | Planetizen Courses

Transportation planning encompasses roadway design, public transit, goods movement, bike lanes, sidewalks, and other facilities that help people move around cities. Transportation planning can have a major impact on physical mobility and economic opportunity, particularly in car-oriented communities where people without personal vehicles have a hard time accessing essential services. In recent years, movements such as Complete Streets and Vision Zero are drawing attention to the need for a more holistic approach to transportation planning that includes and prioritizes multiple modes of transit.

Transportation Courses

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Transportation Planning: Land Use and Transportation Systems

Richard Willson

62 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

Denver union station with city skyline aerial photo

Introduction to Transit Oriented Development

51 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

bike lane

Bicycle-Friendly Streets: Design Standards

Michelle DeRobertis

41 Mins

SACPLAN CPD

busy street with cars and pedestrians in India

The Human Scale

81 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

Train in City

Introduction to Transit Service Policy

105 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

screenshot of transit map for urban planning course

Building a Transit Map Web App

84 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

cars parked along curb in Old Town Pasadena California

Parking Benefit Districts

56 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

Car crashed into interstate wall with firefighters and people pointing.

Walkable City 3: The Safe Walk (A)

77 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

aerial view of cars at large intersection

Transportation Planning: Travel Behavior Principles and Modelling Approaches

Richard Willson

55 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

aerial of denver with buildings and transit

Equitable Transit Oriented Development

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

crosswalk intersection painted with rainbow colors

Tactical Urbanism: How It's Done

96 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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The Future of Cities After COVID-19

James Brasuell, Allison Arieff, Mariela Alfonzo, Scott Frazier, William Fulton

57 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

sculpture in an urban plaza

Design for Peace and Democracy

Kristin Faurest

50 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

transit route designed using remix transit planning platform for urban planning course

Transit Service Design 101

Emily Yasukochi

52 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

book cover for Right of Way

Right of Way: How Racial and Class Disparities Created a Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths

96 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

Bright walkway inbetween buildings with palm trees and a man walking in the background in Dubai

Walkable City 5: The Comfortable Walk

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

A B-29 over Osaka, Japan on 1 June 1945

History of City Planning 3: Midcentury Modern (1940-1979)

64 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

chicago skyline and lincoln park

How Zoning Shapes Cities, Communities, and Regions

84 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

aerial view of large outdoor parking lot

Parking Reform Made Easy

Richard Willson

72 Mins

AICP CM

traffic of cars on city street

Lewis Mumford on the City 2: The City - Cars or People?

29 Mins

AICP CM

Bus departs busbay in town center

Planning Communities for Maximum Transit Access

75 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

pedestrians walking in city

Beyond Complete Streets for Walking and Biking

54 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

examples of universal design which include bus stop sign with large letters, public transit space for wheelchair bound people

Planning for Universal Design

46 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

Autonomous vehicle driving in an intersection

Autonomous Vehicles: Technology, Trends and Planning Concerns

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

Top Transportation Instructors

Richard Willson

Richard Willson is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at California State...

David Dixon

David is well known for helping create new, mixed-use urban districts (in both cities and suburbs)...

Jeff Speck

Jeff Speck is a city planner who advocates internationally for more walkable cities.

Lennart Nout

Lennart is an urban mobility design consultant, specializing in design and planning of bicycle networks and...

Donald Shoup

Donald Shoup is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. His research...

Mark David Major

Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A is a Professor of Urban Design at the Savannah College...

Jason Luger

Jason Luger is a lecturer in City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, College of Environmental...

Jun Wang

Jun Wang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at...

Jarrett Walker

Jarrett Walker is an international consultant in public transit network design and policy, with 25 years...

Elizabeth Doerr

Elizabeth Doerr is a writer with expertise and awareness around social and racial justice issues and...

Lynn Peterson

Lynn Peterson is a nationally recognized transportation and land use integration expert.

Kristin Faurest

Kristin Faurest is a public garden education and outreach professional, author, and landscape architecture educator, committed...

John Hersey

John is a planner with two decades of experience critically evaluating and advancing transit-oriented development as...

Michael Manville

Michael Manville is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

Katrina is a lecturer, researcher, and advocate for heart-centered cities. Her work focuses on human behavior...

Lisa Nisenson

Lisa Nisenson has 20 years of experience and leadership in smart growth, sustainable development and civic...

Geoffrey Ferrell

Geoffrey is one of the originators of the modern practice of Form-Based Codes. His work ranges...

Tim Halbur

Tim Halbur is communications director for the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), the leading organization...

Garlynn Woodsong

Garlynn Woodsong is a geographer and urban planner with more than 13 years of experience in...

William Riggs

William (Billy) Riggs, Ph.D., AICP, LEED AP is a nationally recognized professor, consultant, and strategist.

Mike Lydon

Mike Lydon is a Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative.

Thomas Hamed

Thomas Hamed, AICP is a transportation planner who specializes in commuter transportation and mobility for all...

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel is an autistic planner, an independent accessibility consultant, and the founder of Opossum House...

Nick Falbo

Nick is an urban transportation planner specializing in the design of transportation networks, spaces for people...

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All Transportation Courses

The American City, Part 2: The Invention of a New Scale

Instructor: Mark David Major

Understand how the physical characteristics of block size and street length distinguish American cities from earlier models of urbanism, and the implications of these physical characteristics for sustainability in the 21st century.

4.30

50 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

The American City, Part 1: A Brief History of the Regular Grid

Instructor: Mark David Major

Learn why the regular grid has been a standard part of the town planning vocabulary around the world for nearly five millennia.

4.13

47 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

Economic Thinking for Planners: Cities, Externalities, and Governance

Instructor: Peter Gordon

Through history, people have become better off as they urbanized. This course investigates how and why the quality of life has improved in cities.

4.17

56 Mins

AICP CM

SACPLAN CPD