Towards more sustainable transportation: Lessons learned from a teaching experiment

Abstract

Environmental concerns are growing trends in higher education. However, some universities still have mixed reactions towards incorporating sustainability into urban and regional planning curricula. In the arena of transportation planning education, traditional curricula have underestimated the contribution of bicycle and pedestrian planning to create more sustainable transportation systems. To reverse this trend, the US Department of Transportation has developed a sample course on bicycle and pedestrian planning with the intention of distributing it through planning and engineering schools. The objective is to discuss and report the results of the first attempt to teach this sample course in Massachusetts. Closes with four lessons learned in communicating sustainability in transportation planning education.

Citation

Balsas, C.J.L. (2001), "Towards more sustainable transportation: Lessons learned from a teaching experiment", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 316-328. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006027