Aligning municipal transit, living labs, and urban infrastructure with resident behaviors and community needs.
Designing, producing, and scaling accredited MOOCs, executive masterclasses, and digital certifications in partnership with leading European universities (TU Munich, Univ. of Amsterdam) and innovation networks (EIT Urban Mobility).
Translating complex urban transport science and spatial mechanics into engaging, high-impact visual storytelling, videos, and media reaching over 500,000 viewers globally.
CityUX produces high-impact video essays and visual scholarship that translate complex urban transport science into engaging public stories. In partnership with EIT Urban Mobility and international supporters, our work features over 30 dedicated episodes exploring transit innovations, regional connectivity, and walkability across global cities.
George Liu visits cities across Europe to explore how different public transport systems work in practice, from free-fare transit and suburban networks to historic trams, interurbans, and regional rail.
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Interurban networks are disappearing across Europe, but Katowice is holding on to one of Poland’s largest tram systems. George explores why this seemingly outdated network still connects the city with surrounding towns and rural areas.
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Tallinn became the first European capital to offer free public transport for residents. George investigates whether the policy has actually reduced car use while still providing a frequent and reliable service.
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With limited metro lines and bus services, Helsinki has built a reliable suburban network by optimising bus routes and making better use of its single metro line. George looks at how strategic planning can make existing infrastructure work harder.
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Krakow’s Fast Tram shows how metro-level service can be created within an existing tram network. Through grade separation and signal priority, the city delivers faster, more dependable transit without building a full metro.
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The Randstad links Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht into one interconnected metropolitan region. George explores how the Dutch intercity rail network makes it possible to live, work, and spend time across different cities in a single day.
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Lisbon’s iconic yellow trams still navigate the city more than a century after they were introduced. George explores how these historic vehicles fit alongside modern buses and metro lines in a system balancing tradition and everyday mobility.
City Unboxed follows George Liu through European cities as he tests how well they support everyday human mobility. Each episode explores the city by walking, cycling, and public transport before giving it a final Human Mobility Score.
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Budapest’s transport story is inseparable from the Danube, the historic divide between Buda and Pest, and one of continental Europe’s oldest metro lines. George explores how layers of historic infrastructure still shape the way the city moves today.
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Hamburg is a city built around water, with more than 2,500 bridges threading together its streets, canals, and port. George looks at how cycling, walking, and public transport adapt to a city where waterways are part of the transport landscape.
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Munich’s streets mix traditional public transport with newer forms of micromobility. George tests how e-scooters fit into the city’s wider mobility system and whether they actually make everyday trips easier.
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Surrounded by mountains, Innsbruck has to solve mobility in a landscape most cities never face. George explores how trams, walking, cycling, and the Hungerburg funicular connect the valley floor with the steep terrain above.
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Prague combines dense historic streets with one of Europe’s best-known public transport systems. George moves through the city by tram, metro, bike, and on foot to see how well its celebrated network works at street level.
A flagship initiative of CityUX funded by Bolt, that connects academic research with real-world practice.
We are bridging the gap between scientific research and city-building practice to drive meaningful change in urban mobility, transit access, and placemaking.
We translate cutting-edge urban insights into practical solutions that create more liveable, connected, and inclusive cities.
(Coursera / University of Amsterdam – 13,000+ learners)
The course draws on current research and practice from the Dutch cycling system to show cycling as a complex system tied to land use, history and culture. It holds a 4.9-star rating from 252 learner ratings on Coursera.
Tactical Urbanism and Street Experiments: Turning street problems into quick solutions
(Coursera Specialization)
This free one-hour course teaches participants how to diagnose street problems, match them to tactical fixes, choose low-cost materials, and pitch a street experiment to their municipality. It’s co-taught with Ana Rivas de Gante and aimed at citizens, students, community leaders and planners who want to start change on their own street.
Cycling Insights: Lessons from Europe
(Coursera Specialization)
The course traces the story of cycling in Europe, from 80 years of history and trends to how urban design shapes the way people get around. It ends by looking ahead to ideas like bicycle highways and how design can change travel habits.
(EIT Campus / Humankind)
This free five-week course covers the core building blocks of bicycle infrastructure design and shows how to apply best practices in your own city. It was EIT Urban Mobility’s first MOOC, co-led with Lior Steinberg of Humankind, and ends with a project to reimagine a street of your choice.
Planning the Streets of the Future
(Professional certification platform created with Humankind & EIT Urban Mobility)
Learners reimagine three common street types (the local street, the shopping street and the thoroughfare) on a virtual tour of The Hague, Tel Aviv and Barcelona. The five-week course ends with a final project in which each participant creates their own “flying cars” street-transformation animation.
Founder Dr. George Liu is a Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Munich specializing in human-centered spatial design, digital learning, and urban transit storytelling. Creative Director Jedwin Mok is a transportation planner and video director behind Navigating Urban Transit and City Unboxed. Lead Designer Katie Teele is a Geographical Information Management and Applications master’s student working across design, publishing, marketing, and web development, developing CityUX’s visual identity.
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