Welcome to the first module of our online urban mobility training course. Currently, most of the planet's population lives in cities, and in some parts of the world, for example, in Europe, that number reaches 75%, although, of course, it should be taken into account that the city, as an administrative unit, is defined differently in different countries. About 57 percent of the population of the Republic of Armenia lives in 49 cities of our country. Although it is difficult to compare Yerevan, which has a population of more than 1 million, and Dastakert, which has a population of about 300 people, in general, such activities as work, education, trade, socialization, raising children, etc., are mainly concentrated in the cities.

In the previous module, we got an overview of what urban mobility is. However, as in many other fields, one of the keys to efficiency and success is clear, precise and fundamental planning of organizational and practical measures. It allows all involved structures to harmonize the implemented steps, to form a unified approach to the identification of mobility problems and their solution.

In the previous module, we covered the basic principles of urban mobility planning, we saw what SUMP, or Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, is. As many experts point out, until recently, urban mobility planning was based on the approaches developed mainly in the United States of America after the Second World War, which later spread to other parts of the world, particularly in Europe.

Our final video lesson of this module will be devoted to measures to promote sustainable urban mobility. It is obvious that in modern cities, the means of transport are getting more and more widespread and, accordingly, occupying more space. This means that if the excessive proliferation of cars is not regulated, they gradually become dominant and push out most of the remaining alternatives (which we also notice in Armenia). Such a situation, in turn, creates obstacles for our efforts to move people and cargo efficiently.