Professional TRAINING course
Tackling Transport Poverty: Strategies for Equitable Mobility
A structured training programme equipping transport professionals with the analytical frameworks, measurement tools and intervention methods needed to identify and address transport poverty.
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Four main objectives
Define & identify
Understand transport poverty, social exclusion and spatial injustice and how identity shapes mobility.
Analyse trends
Critically assess how net-zero transitions and emerging technologies may alleviate or acerbate transport poverty.
Measure impact
Select and apply quantitative and qualitative indicators to diagnose poverty in specific contexts.
Design solutions
Create context‑sensitive strategies and interventions for diverse professional audiences.
THE CURRICULUM
Four learning modules and one applied use case
MODULE 1 – Introduction to transport poverty
What does transport poverty actually mean, and who does it affect?
This module unpacks the core concepts of social exclusion, affordability, and spatial injustice and grounds them in concrete examples from the communities most impacted. You'll build the theoretical foundation needed to understand how transport poverty is identified and why it demands urgent attention.
This module unpacks the core concepts of social exclusion, affordability, and spatial injustice and grounds them in concrete examples from the communities most impacted. You'll build the theoretical foundation needed to understand how transport poverty is identified and why it demands urgent attention.
MODULE 2 – The future of transport, net-zero transitions, and transport poverty
Can we tackle climate change without deepening transport inequalities?
This module applies social justice frameworks to transport policy and planning, examining how net-zero transitions and emerging mobility innovations create both risks and opportunities for the most vulnerable. Through global case studies, from climate shelters to flexible local transport, you'll learn to critically evaluate what a just transition looks like in practice.
This module applies social justice frameworks to transport policy and planning, examining how net-zero transitions and emerging mobility innovations create both risks and opportunities for the most vulnerable. Through global case studies, from climate shelters to flexible local transport, you'll learn to critically evaluate what a just transition looks like in practice.
MODULE 3 – Measuring transport poverty
How do we measure transport poverty, and what does measurement miss?
Building on the course's theoretical foundations, this module introduces the key indicators, methods, and data sources used to assess its extent and nature in practice. You'll explore both quantitative approaches and qualitative methods that capture people's lived experiences, developing a critical understanding of what each reveals and where each falls short.
Building on the course's theoretical foundations, this module introduces the key indicators, methods, and data sources used to assess its extent and nature in practice. You'll explore both quantitative approaches and qualitative methods that capture people's lived experiences, developing a critical understanding of what each reveals and where each falls short.
MODULE 4 – Moving forward – learning from best practices across different contexts
What does effective action actually look like, and does scale matter?
Drawing on interventions from the Global North and South, from national fare policies to community-led solutions, this module closes with a team-based case study. You'll diagnose a real transport poverty challenge, evaluate existing responses, and design actionable strategies you could apply in your own context.
Drawing on interventions from the Global North and South, from national fare policies to community-led solutions, this module closes with a team-based case study. You'll diagnose a real transport poverty challenge, evaluate existing responses, and design actionable strategies you could apply in your own context.
LEARNING FORMATS
Pick the path that better fits your schedule
Learning Path 1 – Blended online
Learning Path 2 – Face-to-face in Barcelona
COURSE CALENDAR - AUTUMN 2026
Key dates
Built for the people who move cities
Public sector
Professionals at national, regional and local authorities applying these lessons in transport policies, strategies and innovation.
Transport industry
People at consultancies, operators and new‑mobility providers designing equitable services and advising public bodies.
Academia
Students and recent graduates starting or just beginning a career in the mobility sector, social sciences, urban studies and related paths.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Scholarships available
By offering these scholarships, we ensure that the course reaches a diverse audience and supports truly equitable and inclusive participation.
