In rapidly-growing cities around the world, urban transport practitioners are grappling with the challenge of providing more inclusive access to employment, education, healthcare, and other essential services, while reducing travel costs, traffic congestion, air quality impacts, and the consumption of scarce resources like land and fuel.
Addressing these complex challenges requires holistic and multisectoral approaches to urban transport planning, governance, management, and operations. This can only happen if the policymakers and practitioners in charge of urban transport are equipped with the right knowledge and skills, and are able to foster strong and seamless cooperation among all relevant institutions.
The LUTP program provides interactive training workshops through which city transport leaders gain the skills needed to identify, prepare, and implement holistic solutions to complex urban transport issues. Rather than a platform to disseminate “best practice,” LUTP is a program that helps professionals assess the accessibility needs and challenges facing their own cities, balance different perspectives, and develop a solution that is the “best fit” to local circumstances.
Since its inception in 2011, the LUTP program has trained more than 2600 practitioners from 105 countries through 81 different workshops.
The LUTP program is based on the following principles:
- While every city is unique, cities often face common challenges
- No one specific solution fits all cities because local circumstances vary among cities
- A good understanding of institutions, governance, political economy, and cultural barriers to changing behavior is needed to develop sustainable solutions
- Adults learn best by participatory problem-solving and hands-on learning
- Collaborative learning and sharing knowledge among cities in the spirit of peer-city learning is important
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