Funding and Financing of Sustainable Urban Mobility Measures
- Description
- Curriculum

Course Overview
The course aims to identify methods used by cities to finance sustainable urban mobility projects.
The course instructors will also share their experience on innovative business models that enable cities to bring together various stakeholders in implementing sustainable transport.
This course will be held both as a self-paced version with webinars and online conferences where participants will have an opportunity to directly interact with the instructors.
For more information, please contact: Dr. Frederic Rudolph
Who is the course for?
The course is aimed mainly at transport planners in local authorities of small and medium sized cities. Other interested individuals are also welcome, e.g. from consultancies or recent graduates.
Course Objectives
The overarching objective of the course is to identify and help closing the capacity gaps in S-M cities’ knowledge of methods in financing sustainable mobility through providing information and sharing knowledge of best practice from across Europe. Participants will learn about:
- innovative financing schemes, i.e. levies, taxes and charges, commercial and economic measures and municipality-centred measures;
- the public procurement reform in the EU, innovative procurement criteria and procedures for transport and mobility; and
- business models for new and emerging transport schemes.
Moderation and Forum
- 4 weeks course (01.07.2020 – 01.08.2020)
- Moderation only in this time span. Questions can be raised using the respective forum for each topic
- Questions are discussed in written form
- The course is self-paced i.e. you can log in according to your schedule
- Moderator will interact with participants through the forum for each topic
- Opportunity to participate in live webinars if participants are in the same time zone.
- Webinars are recorded and recordings are made available for participants.

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1Introduction Webinar: Public Procurement and Innovative Financing of Sustainable Urban TransportText lesson
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2Introduction to Financing of Sustainable Urban Mobility MeasuresText lesson
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3The 8 SUMP Principles in the Context of Funding and FinancingText lesson
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4Options and Challenges on Funding and Financing for Sustainable Urban MobilityText lesson
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51. Local Revenue StreamText lesson
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61.1. Project Related IncomeText lesson
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71.2. Pricing Measures for Individual Car UseText lesson
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81.2.1. Congestion ChargeText lesson
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91.2.2. Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) Charging SchemesText lesson
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101.2.3. Parking ManagementText lesson
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111.2.4. Toll RoadsText lesson
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122. Employers ContributionsText lesson
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132.1. Workplace Parking LevyText lesson
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143. Value Capture InstrumentsText lesson
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153.1. Stamp Duty and Land TaxText lesson
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163.2. Voluntary CaptureText lesson
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173.3. Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)Text lesson
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183.4 Tax Increment FinancingText lesson
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194. Local Option Sales TaxesText lesson
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26IntroductionText lesson
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27LoansText lesson
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28City BondsText lesson
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29Municipal Green BondsText lesson
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30External Finance : CrowdsourcingText lesson
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31External finance : Citizen CooperativeText lesson
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32External Finance : Lottery FundingText lesson
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33External Finance: Donations as Part of Consumer PurchasesText lesson
