Sustainable Mobility in the Cities and Agglomeration Areas

Sustainability

How can urban policies and planning approaches help in achieving a safer mobility and carbon reduction in the transport sector? The attention of planners and policy makers towards the promotion of sustainability and reduction of environmental impacts has grown in recent years. This paper investigates the role that Urban Planning plays in the long term towards a safer and climate friendlier mobility, highlighting the need for integrated approaches gathering spatial planning and mobility management. After a review of several urban policies and planning strategies, initiatives, and approaches, mainly based on the urban scale, the paper presents an urban regeneration case study leading to an increase of pedestrian accessibility at the neighborhood level. This can be seen as a support tool to foster sustainable, safe, and climate friendly mobility in cities. The results of the performed analysis show a dependency of accessibility from two different factors: the distribution of services a...

Sustainability

The main goal of this paper is to present and analyze approaches for sustainable urban mobility in Poznan and Oslo. The topic of sustainable urban transport as well as green mobility is currently important from formal perspectives, due to European regulations, and because of ecological conditions and resulting climate changes. The research methodology implemented includes analysis of the literature on the research subject; analysis of EU documents and national policies with respect to financing and development of sustainable urban transport (SUT); development of a questionnaire on SUT in Oslo and Poznan, using the questionnaire to collect opinions on SUTs in Oslo and Poznan, and analyzing respondents’ answers, defining recommendations concerning future activities for urban sustainability in the surveyed cities. The authors provide a review of the actual sustainable urban mobility situations in Oslo and Poznan, compare government support and sources of funding, identify gaps in terms...

Energy, Transport, & the Environment, 2012

For many cities, traditional transport comprises a sizeable percentage of total carbon emissions. It also contributes to air pollution, poorer health, and resource inefficiencies in the form of higher oil prices, traffic jams, etc. Often city policy-makers do not account for climate change impacts and natural disasters or consider alternative transport options and networks. It does not have to be like this. Cities can continue to develop and grow, attracting industry, high-skilled workers, tourists with sustainable urban design, and mobility. With walking, cycling, green public transport, and shared vehicle use taking the lead, and supported by ICT, cities can become less reliant on traditional and personal transport. Instead, city policy-makers can aim to increase accessibility and convenience to their residents and visitors alike, including rapid and safe mobility in times of emergency. This can be done with good urban design, behaviour change, advance technology, supportive policies, economic incentives, and city engagement and leadership.

Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, 2002

Aggravation of traffic intensity and air pollution in urban areas is urging the studies on strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of transportation networks and the integration of land-use planning with transport-environment concerns.

2010

Sustainable strategies can have significant results if they are carried on at neighbourhood level; indeed, the unsustainable nature of contemporary cities reveals a poor planning at the micro or district level (Berg and Nycander, 1997). In the last decades, many projects of urban development, following the principles of sustainability, have been realized in Europe. All these projects, although at different degrees, pay attention to the ‘green’ transport plan, which aims at promoting the use of walking paths and cycling ways and public transport, reducing the house-workplace movements and offering real alternatives to private cars. Transport consumes, indeed, about one-fifth of global primary energy and represents the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions and of import dependency on fossil fuels (COM 2006-B). Within this context, the aim of the paper is to investigate, through an ex-post evaluation, the many sustainable mobility strategies developed in 20 European neighb...

2020

An analysis of the use of urban transport systems and mobility in major cities of foreign countries is carried out based on the research for developed plans for sustainable urban mobility in the Republic of Bulgaria. The peculiarities of the conditions in the country, studies in literary sources, policies and good practices are the perspectives for developing sustainable urban mobility in Bulgaria. An integrated mobility model was developed that will be used in an average size town, with different modes of transport and means of active mobility. Results show the prospects for the development of integrated mobility.

International Social Science Journal, 2003

2000

Aggravation of traffic intensity and air pollution in urban areas is urging the studies on strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of transportation networks and the integration of land-use planning with transport-environment concerns. The aim of this study is to analyse the environmental impacts of mobility induced by major regional development tendencies and policies in the Brussels-Capital region. An integrated modelling approach

Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering, 2014

Urban mobility, the transport of people and goods, is on one hand essential for economic and social well-being but is on the other also a growing concern. Urban development faces today the challenge of making mobility sustainable in terms of environment (i.e. control emission, air pollution, noise, land take) and of competitiveness (i.e. price, time lost at congestions and journey time). Moreover, sustainability in urban development has to cope with a steady concern: it is increasingly space-intensive. At the same time, space is a finite resource and its claim for urban uses, e.g. for housing, work places, recreation, infrastructure and transport networks, puts increasing pressure on landscape and ecosystems. Considering urban mobility as a social responsibility in this paper the issues of transport and cars use in urban areas will be discussed against the concept of green infrastructure. Transport networks also shape settlement patterns and transform the landscape. More and more, land take for transport affects the natural environment, both functionally and morphologically, with far reaching effects also on the built environment. In turn, the quality of the built environment depends very much on the nourishing quality of the natural environment. Although these two aspects are part of the same process, they are usually not discussed and treated with the same concern and consideration. As cars need lots of space for use and storage, the paper also addresses as a major problem the mono-use of urban spaces, and on the basis of investigated examples demonstrate the scope of problem and viable solutions towards a green mobility. Green mobility impose minimal disturbance to the environment, sparing landscape and especially calls for public education to shift individual travel behaviour.

European Transport Research Review, 2018

Sustainability, 2020

In this paper, a review of the main actions and policies that can be implemented to promote sustainable mobility is proposed. The work aims to provide a broad, albeit necessarily not exhaustive, analysis of the main studies and research that from different points of view have focused on sustainable mobility. The structure of the paper enables the reader to easily identify the topics covered and the studies related to them, so as to guide him/her to the related in-depth studies. In the first part of the paper, there is a preliminary analysis of the concept of sustainable mobility, the main transport policies implemented by the European Union and the USA, and the main statistical data useful to analyze the problem. Next, the main policies that can promote sustainable mobility are examined, classifying them into three topics: Environmental, socioeconomic , and technological. Many of the policies and actions examined could be classified into more than one of the three categories used; for each of them, there is a description and the main literature work on which the topic can be analyzed in more detail. The paper concludes with a discussion on the results obtained and the prospects for research.

Research-Memorandum, 1992

Urbani izziv, 2006

Researchers from Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden collaborate in the EU sponsored project »Asses implementations in the frame of the Cities of Tomorrow« (ASI). ASI is centered on quality of life issues and the way they are dealt with in projects aiming to promote sustainable transport. In general, these issues tend to be overlooked by researchers, as they are difficult to measure or quantify. The main objective of this project is to examine whether and how policy makers take into account quality of life effects when designing and implementing transport policies, by reviewing policy implementations in cities that participated in the Cities of Tomorrow programme. Based on this, development of an instrument that will enable decision-makers to better address quality of life issues in mobility projects is prepared, in order to secure public acceptance and promote user behaviour changes. The project follows holistic approach to sustainability; special emphasis is given to issues of sustainable transport. This reflects the facts that the urban structure directly predetermines the transport system and that the mobility of people and goods has a central impact on the quality of urban environment. Therefore the project clamours for compact, space-saving settlement structure interrelated with an environmentally compatible transport system. Its scientific orientation is determined by the objectives of the EU policies and its inspiration sources could be found also in ecological and architectural movements. Similarly to their typical approach, the project Ecocity intends to realise its vision of sustainable city through planning of an ideal physical structure within a spatially limited model area.