Learning Pathways
Follow a structured route from knowledge to practical application
ACCESS Learning Pathways guide participants through a recommended sequence of courses, tools, cases, exercises, and exchange activities. Each pathway is designed around a practical capability or learning objective and can be adapted to different roles, levels of experience, and institutional contexts.
Rather than presenting learning materials as an isolated catalogue, the pathways help participants understand where to begin, what to study next, how to apply the learning, and where to continue through peer exchange and regional collaboration.
A Learning Pathway is a recommended sequence of learning and application activities. It may combine open modules, partner-hosted courses, ACCESS tools, implementation cases, practical assignments, webinars, and Community of Practice exchange.
How Learning Pathways Work
Each pathway should support progression from foundational understanding to practical application and leadership. Participants may enter at different points depending on their experience, role, prior learning, and digital-readiness needs.
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Foundation
Understand the core climate, mobility, digitalisation, inclusion, and Avoid–Shift–Improve concepts.
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Technical
Develop knowledge of relevant tools, methods, technologies, data systems, and sector applications.
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Application
Use cases, exercises, templates, and assignments to apply learning to a real or representative challenge.
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Advanced
Explore specialist subjects such as advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, digital twins, complex systems, and emerging technologies.
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Leadership
Connect technical knowledge with policy, institutional change, finance, strategy, decision-making, and scaling.
Gender equality, accessibility, safeguards, responsible data use, climate impact, governance, finance, and monitoring should be integrated throughout every pathway, rather than treated as optional or separate topics.
Find a Pathway for Your Role
Select the profile that best reflects your responsibilities. Each role-based view should recommend pathways, courses, tools, and implementation cases without creating duplicate learning content.
National policymakers
Policy, regulation, NDC implementation, national enabling frameworks, digital strategies, finance, monitoring, and national–city coordination.
City and transport authorities
Digital readiness, mobility planning, data governance, procurement, pilot design, implementation management, and service delivery.
Technical practitioners
Mobility data, dashboards, GTFS, interoperable systems, digital tools, emissions methods, technical design, and evaluation.
Development and financing partners
Investment readiness, climate finance, safeguards, impact assessment, project preparation, replication, and scaling.
Private-sector organisations
Responsible innovation, operating models, implementation partnerships, procurement, data-sharing, and long-term delivery.
Civil-society organisations
Inclusive mobility, participation, accessibility, digital rights, safeguards, advocacy, and accountability.
Academia and students
Foundational and advanced learning, research methods, applied cases, assignments, and optional academic credentials.
Proposed ACCESS Learning Pathways
The following pathways provide a recommended initial architecture. A pathway should only be published when its owner, learning outcomes, sequence, available content, application activity, languages, and completion arrangements have been approved.
Digitalisation for Low-Carbon Urban Mobility
Foundation
For all stakeholder groups. Introduces sustainable mobility, digitalisation, Avoid–Shift–Improve, public value, inclusion, and responsible innovation.
Explore the PathwayMobility Data for Better Decisions
Foundation to Application
For authorities, practitioners, academia, and partners. Covers data governance, collection, interoperability, analysis, dashboards, privacy, and evidence-based planning.
Explore the PathwayDigital Transformation of Public Transport
Technical to Application
For transport authorities, operators, practitioners, and providers. Covers information systems, GTFS, passenger information, operations, integration, and institutional readiness.
Explore the PathwayDigital Urban Freight and Logistics
Technical to Application
For cities, freight operators, policymakers, and practitioners. Covers routing, curb management, freight data, sector engagement, emissions, and implementation.
Explore the PathwayInclusive and Responsible Digital Mobility
Foundation to Leadership
For all audiences. Covers gender-responsive planning, accessibility, safeguards, participation, privacy, responsible data use, and digital inclusion.
Explore the PathwayPolicy and Institutional Leadership
Application to Leadership
For policymakers, city leadership, and institutional managers. Covers governance, regulation, institutional coordination, procurement, implementation, and change management.
Explore the PathwayFinance, Investment Readiness, and Scaling
Application to Leadership
For governments, development partners, financing institutions, and private-sector actors. Covers project preparation, business models, climate finance, procurement, replication, and ownership.
Explore the PathwayFrom Pilot Design to Replication
Application
For city teams and implementation partners. Covers problem definition, readiness, co-design, baseline setting, implementation, monitoring, evidence, institutional adoption, and replication.
Explore the PathwayWhat Each Pathway Should Include
- Pathway title and concise description
- Intended audiences and institutional level
- Entry requirements or recommended prior knowledge
- Learning level or progression
- Learning objectives and practical capabilities
- Estimated time and suggested sequence
- Courses, modules, webinars, and workshops
- Related ACCESS tools, cases, and country or city examples
- Mandatory cross-cutting modules or competencies
- Applied assignment, institutional task, or capstone
- Community of Practice or peer-exchange opportunity
- Available languages and accessibility features
- Certificate, badge, or optional micro-credential information
- Owner, provider, update date, and quality-assurance arrangements
Example Pathway Structure
Mobility Data for Better Decisions
This example shows how one pathway could bring together several themes and learning formats without duplicating the underlying content.
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Start: Understand
Why mobility data matters for sustainable and inclusive mobility; key concepts, data sources, governance, privacy, and public value.
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Develop: Learn the Methods
Data collection, quality, interoperability, origin–destination analysis, dashboards, indicators, emissions methods, and disaggregated data.
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Apply: Complete a Practical Task
Assess a dataset or institutional data challenge, define indicators, or prepare a simple evidence-to-decision plan.
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Exchange: Discuss Experience
Share the practical task through a webinar, peer group, or Community of Practice session and compare approaches.
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Lead: Use Evidence for Change
Translate findings into a policy recommendation, implementation roadmap, investment concept, or institutional improvement plan.
Open Learning and Optional Recognition
A pathway may include both open ACCESS learning and optional formal recognition. Access to core ACCESS-funded content should not depend on payment or university enrolment.
Core modules, tools, cases, exercises, recordings, and downloadable materials are available without charge.
A free record of participation, completion certificate, or digital badge may be available when requirements are met.
Priority participants may receive free or subsidised webinars, workshops, feedback, peer learning, or local facilitation.
An academic partner may charge for validated assessment, tutoring, supervised projects, academic credit, or credential issuance.
Priority public-sector, civil-society, student, and underrepresented participants should be informed of available support.
Not Sure Where to Start?
A short guided assessment should help visitors identify an appropriate pathway. At launch, this can be a simple questionnaire rather than a complex automated diagnostic.
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What type of organisation do you represent?
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Do you work mainly at national, subnational, city, or regional level?
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Which mobility challenge are you addressing?
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Which capability do you want to strengthen?
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What is your current level of knowledge or experience?
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Which language and delivery format do you need?
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Do you require a low-bandwidth or accessible format?
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Are you seeking open learning, facilitated learning, or an assessed credential?
Explore and Compare Pathways
- Audience
- Theme
- Learning level
- Governance level
- Avoid, Shift, or Improve
- Language
- Estimated duration
- Format
- Open, facilitated, or credential route
- Accessibility and low-bandwidth features
- Provider
- Registration or availability status
From Learning to Action
- 1Knowledge
- 2Learning
- 3Application
- 4Exchange
- 5Scaling
Pathways should not end when a course is completed. Participants should be directed to relevant tools, implementation cases, practical assignments, peer exchange, and opportunities to document and share applied experience.