Evaluation of Measures Aimed at Sustainable Urban Mobility in European Cities–Case Study CIVITAS MIMOSA

Since 2013, the European cities have been encouraged to develop local Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) according to the specific procedure that was launched by the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG Move) and updated in 2019. One of the most critical steps in this 12-step procedure is the assessment—with specific criteria—of all the alternative measures and infrastructure, which will be optimally combined, in order to better satisfy the problems and the achieve the vision of each area. The aim of the current work is to present the development and implementation of a methodological framework based on the use of multicriteria analysis. The framework targets the capturing of opinions of the relevant local experts in order to evaluate alternative sustainable mobility measures, and also prioritize them using the Sustainable Mobility Efficiency Index (SMEI).

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An Evaluation of Urban Open Spaces in Larisa, Greece

European Journal of Engineering and Formal Sciences ◽

10.26417/ejef.v2i1.p66-72 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 66

Author(s):

Charalampos Kyriakidis ◽

Efthimios Bakogiannis

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Questionnaire Survey ◽

Human Life ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Open Spaces ◽

Electronic Questionnaire ◽

People’S Perception ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility

A great deal of researchers elaborated on the importance of the urban spaces and human life. Urban spaces are necessary types of spaces for a city and they have a timeless value. This research is focused on people’s perception about urban spaces in Larisa, Greece, a medium-sized city selected as case study. An electronic questionnaire survey was conducted and conclusions are drawn on how adequate are the urban spaces in Larisa. Moreover, people are asked to propose ideas on how other spaces, function more as urban gaps, can be integrated on the urban grid. In that way, it is easy to study what people believe about the city’s life and how the existing urban spaces function. Some conclusions derived from this research can be also useful in succeeding a combined traffic and urban planning in other Greek, in the context of the implementation of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP).

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Diffusing Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in the EU

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12208436 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (20) ◽

pp. 8436

Author(s):

Stefan Werland

Keyword(s):

European Commission ◽

Policy Diffusion ◽

Policy Transfer ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

European Cities ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Policy Field ◽

Mobility Behaviour ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility ◽

The Eu

This paper explores how the European Commission promotes the concept of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) among European cities. Despite the strong uptake of the SUMP concept, mobility-related problems persist in European municipalities. Linking theoretical approaches to understand the diffusion of policies with empirical findings from working with cities in the SUMP context, this article explores channels of policy diffusion and investigates shortcomings related to the respective approaches. Studies on the diffusion, the transfer and the convergence of policies identify formal hierarchy, coercion, competition, learning and networking, and the diffusion of international norms as channels for policy transfer. The findings which are presented in this paper are twofold: First, the paper finds evidence that the Commission takes different roles and uses all mechanisms in parallel, albeit with different intensity. It concludes that the approaches to explain policy diffusion are not competing or mutually exclusive but are applied by the same actor to address different aspects of a policy field, or to reach out to different actors. Second, the article provides first evidence of factors that limit the mechanisms’ abilities to directly influence urban mobility systems and mobility behaviour.

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Understanding Public Transport Ridership in Developing Countries to Promote Sustainable Urban Mobility: A Case Study of Mexicali, Mexico

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12083266 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 3266 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Alejandro Sánchez-Atondo ◽

Leonel García ◽

Julio Calderón-Ramírez ◽

José Manuel Gutiérrez-Moreno ◽

Alejandro Mungaray-Moctezuma

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Global South ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Limited Resources ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Mobility Strategies ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility ◽

Macro Variables ◽

The City

Some small- and medium-sized Global South cities have unsustainable transport systems and no information to plan interventions in addition to having limited resources for data collection. This study proposes a method to understand Public Transport (PT) ridership in cities of these characteristics, based on previous studies and by analysing available indicators related to Manheim’s macro-variables, to identify their influence on the PT ridership. The method was applied in the city of Mexicali, Mexico. The results help to understand the causes of the low PT ridership and have implications for achieving sustainable urban mobility in the city. Findings reveal that mobility planning in Mexicali has been occurring without properly considering activity system related variables, so it is necessary to integrate urban and transport administration. Moreover, to increase PT demand in Mexicali, mobility strategies to discourage the use of private cars are necessary. The proposed method can be applied in other cities of the Global South with characteristics similar to the case study to understand the causes of PT ridership, so these can be considered by the agencies responsible for the planning of the city’s transportation system to promote a sustainable urban mobility.

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Sustainable urban mobility planning: Gdynia city case study

Ekonomia i Prawo ◽

10.12775/eip.2018.014 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 195 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Adam Przybyłowski

Keyword(s):

Urban Mobility ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility

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Land Use as a Criterion for the Selection of the Trip Starting Locations of Park and Ride Mode Travelers

Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering ◽

10.3311/pptr.16383 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jairo Ortega ◽

Dimitrios Rizopoulos ◽

János Tóth ◽

Tamás Péter

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Light Rail ◽

Rail Transit ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Real World Data ◽

Park And Ride ◽

Quantitative Studies ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility ◽

Selection Of

In the attempt to study Light Rail Transit (LRT) systems, and their necessary underlying components, such as Park and Ride (P&R) sub-systems, this article aims to showcase the importance of land-use as a criterion in the selection of trip starting locations (i.e., points), that can potentially be used as the basis for quantitative studies on LRT and P&R systems. In order to achieve this goal, a method is introduced for the selection of locations that produce P&R mode trips based on the land-use attributes of sub-zones or neighborhoods, as they are included in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). Those land-use attributes are utilized as sub-criteria for the classification and valid selection of trip starting locations out of a broader dataset of available locations. As a second supportive technique that needs to be utilized for this study, an algorithm is introduced, which allows us to test the effectiveness of the method and the importance of land use as a criterion. The algorithm enables the calculation and comparison of the attributes of the trips to be followed by P&R mode users starting from selected trip starting locations for each zone in a city and having as destinations the several available P&R facilities. Results for the methods introduced in this article are showcased based on a case study on the mid-sized city of Cuenca, Ecuador, in which, several metrics, such as traveling times considering different traffic scenarios, are examined for the potential P&R mode trips as they emerge from real-world data.

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