Urban Rail Development: Manage Urban Rail Projects
| Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Rail Development: Manage Urban Rail Projects | 07 Dec 2025 | 11 Dec 2025 | Istanbul, Turkey | $ 4,500 | Register |
Urban Rail Development: Manage Urban Rail Projects
| Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Rail Development: Manage Urban Rail Projects | 07 Dec 2025 | 11 Dec 2025 | Istanbul, Turkey | $ 4,500 |
Introduction
This highly participative Urban Rail Development training course presents the delegates with ways to develop affordable, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible transportation solutions that can meet the accessibility needs of expanding metropolitan populations and support future economic and urban development. In these terms, urban rail systems can provide rapid mobility and vital access to city centers from surrounding districts, and the course will present how high-performing urban rail services help enhance the quality of life by giving citizens access to employment opportunities, essential services, urban amenities, and neighboring communities. This Urban Rail Development training course presents a synthesis of knowledge related to planning, implementation, and operations of urban rail projects. The Urban Rail Development training course covers essential skills required to perform early studies and project planning, creating more sustainable projects, enhancing socio-economic returns, and access to opportunities for users while maximizing the value of private participation, where appropriate. The course provides full advice to tackle the technical, institutional, and financial challenges faced by decision-makers considering urban rail projects.
Participants attending the training course will develop the following competencies:
- Ability to manage urban rail development projects,
- Realize all the requirements for urban rail development,
- Knowledge of economic, social, and environmental sustainability of urban rail,
- Experience to tackle the technical, institutional, and financial challenges,
- Manage the challenges of urban rail systems.
Objectives
- Define urban rail and it is characteristics compared to other forms of transit
- Have a working knowledge of the steps of the urban rail development process
- Walk through each of the steps in the urban rail development process
- Building capacity within the project of urban rail development
- Understand international 'good practices' and recommendations
This Urban Rail Development training course aims to enable participants to achieve the following objectives:
Training Methodology
The Urban Rail Development training course will combine presentations with interactive practical exercises, supported by video materials, activities, and case studies where the neo-traditional planning system of urban development is introduced. The seminars will use the most up-to-date presentation and interactive methods focusing on problem identification in the thematic area, and work of the participants on finding solutions, or ways to solve the identified problems through the discussion of practical examples and tasks.
Who Should Attend?
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Researchers and Practitioners in Traffic Engineering
- Professionals in Urban Planning
- Architects involved in Urban Design
- Project Managers
- Technology Engineers, Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and Chief Information Officers (CIOs)
- Strategic Development Personnel
- Transport Engineers and Researchers
Course Outline
Day 1 - Urban rail
- Introduction,
- Urban rail transit development,
- The decision-making process regarding urban rail implementation,
- Comparative evaluation of investment opportunities,
- Examples of urban rail projects.
Day 2 - Urban rail program and project management
- Organization of program and project management,
- Feasibility studies,
- Project management principles,
- Project risk assessment for urban rail projects,
- Urban rail project planning example.
Day 3 - Urban rail design
- Design standards,
- Design features,
- Options in the design,
- Cost estimation,
- Critical impacts of urban rail design and implementation.
Day 4 - Urban rail project optimization
- Project value analysis,
- Integrated design,
- Risk transfer,
- International Value Methodology Standard,
- Using value engineering.
Day 5 - Project finances and development options
- Procurement,
- Public-Private partnership options
- Maximizing returns,
- Institutional development,
- Operational and financial sustainability.

