Planning for Seamless Journeys: Multimodal Integration, Land Use and Travel Demand Management

Indian cities are adding metro lines, bus fleets and feeder services, yet many commuters still find it easier to take a private vehicle. The problem is not a lack of services, rather the gaps between them: long walks between stations and bus stops, separate tickets for every leg, timetables that do not meet, and agencies that plan in isolation. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) offers an online training course on multimodal integration (MMI), the practice of planning a city's transport as one network built around the whole journey rather than individual modes.

Over 10 days, the course takes participants through the five pillars of integration (network, physical, fare, information and institutional) and the land-use and demand management policies that support them, with examples from Indian and global cities. Sessions are led by practitioners, planners and researchers working on these questions in Indian cities.

The self-paced online programme will feature video lectures, reading material, a pre-course exercise and a short quiz. A new module opens every day, and participants can watch it at any time that suits them, at their own pace and convenience.

KEY MODULES IN THE COURSE:

• Foundations of Multimodal Integration (MMI): The state of urban mobility in Indian cities, why a fragmented system fails the user, and the five pillars of integration: network, physical, fare, information and institutional.
• Designing for the User: Physical and Network Strategies: Designing interchanges and transit hubs for universal accessibility and easy transfers, and rationalising trunk and feeder routes and timetables with data and GIS.
• Unifying the System: Fares, Information and Governance: Common fares and revenue sharing, open transit data (GTFS) and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), and the institutions, such as UMTAs, that make integration work.
• Enabling Policies: Land Use, Demand Management and TOD: Transit-oriented development and value capture, parking policy and low emission zones (LEZ) as tools to shift trips to integrated public transport.

For more information, please contact:

COURSE ORGANISERS

Shubham Srivastav
Deputy Programme Manager
Sustainable Mobility, CSE
Email: shubham.srivastava@cseindia.org

Sayan Roy
Programme Manager
Sustainable Mobility, CSE
Email: sayan.roy@cseindia.org