Reviews: Spatial Perspectives on Industrial Organization and Decision-Making, Spatial Planning and Policy: Theoretical Foundations, Telecommunications Experiments in Urban and Regional Planning, Principles of Urban Transport Systems Planning, Regional Planning: A Comprehensive View

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen B. Massey ◽  
B. J. Garner ◽  
R. Pye ◽  
D. Van Vliet ◽  
T.A. Broadbent
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Industrial Organization ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
Systems Planning ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

scholarly journals Assessing Sustainable Mobility Measures Applying Multicriteria Decision Making Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 6067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Damidavičius ◽  
Marija Burinskienė ◽  
Jurgita Antuchevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Multicriteria Decision

An increasing number of recent discussions have focused on the need for designing transport systems in consonance with the importance of the environment, thus promoting investment in the growth of non-motorized transport infrastructure. Under such conditions, the demand for implementing the most effective infrastructure measures has a profoundly positive impact, and requires the least possible financial and human resources. The development of the concept of sustainable mobility puts emphasis on the integrated planning of transport systems, and pays major attention to the expansion of non-motorized and public transport, and different sharing systems, as well as to effective traffic management involving intelligent transport systems. The development of transport infrastructure requires massive investment, and hence the proper use of mobility measures is one of the most important objectives for the rational planning of sustainable transport systems. To achieve this established goal, this article examines a compiled set of mobility measures and identifies the significance of the preferred tools, which involve sustainable mobility experts. The paper also applies multicriteria decision making methods in assessing urban transport systems and their potential in terms of sustainable mobility. Multicriteria decision making methods have been successfully used for assessing the effectiveness of sustainable transport systems, and for comparing them between cities. The proposed universal evaluation model is applied to similar types of cities. The article explores the adaptability of the model by assessing big Lithuanian cities.

A Comparative Review of the Making of Urban Transport Policies in Metropolitan Areas in Southeast Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Mueth ◽  
Anil Minhans
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Policy Field ◽  
Political Decision Making

The urban transport systems are primarily the result of political decision-making processes, and only secondarily a matter of technical necessity or technical possibility, because every individual or group does have vested interests in transport policies, which are often conflicting if not inherently incompatible. What constitutes the so-called “common good” is not a technical question but ultimately a political one – while its implementation requires the suitable technical solution. This “comparative review of the making of urban transport policies in metropolitan areas of Singapore and Bangkok” analyses (1) the “input” of different actors into the political decision-making process, (2) how this input is processed by the various actors in government and administration, including the interaction of all participatory actors, and (3) finally how the results of these processes influence the form of the actual transport systems. The results are based on the research of the different polities influencing transport-related decisions in cities of Singapore and Bangkok. The process of decision-making is analysed using seven illustrative examples from these cities and the assessment of the transport systems is made according to pre-defined quantitative and qualitative data. This adopted approach is along the lines of classical policy-field analysis: In this study it examines the policy field of urban transport and draws conclusions, which are specific to the chosen cities and general to the policy field.

Decision-Making Framework to Allocate Real-Time Passenger Information Signs at Bus Stops: Model Application in Athens, Greece

2017 ◽  
Vol 2647 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Styliani Papagianni ◽  
Christina Iliopoulou ◽  
Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou ◽  
Antony Stathopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Bus Stops ◽  
Bus Networks

The use of intelligent transport systems for the provision of real-time passenger information is an important incentive in efforts to strengthen the role of public transport and improve livability in large cities. Electronic signs installed at bus stops to disseminate information on bus arrivals are an important component of these systems with a significant capital cost. Nonetheless, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is no systematic approach for the selection of location sites for deployment of dynamic message signs (DMS). Public transport authorities often follow ad hoc procedures that are based on various location criteria—namely, passenger boardings, availability of power, and number of routes served at bus stops—to derive a set of candidate location sites. This was the case with the methodology implemented by the Athens Urban Transport Organization in Athens, Greece. With data from Athens, this paper proposes a modeling framework for the decision-making process regarding DMS locations in bus networks. The framework is formulated as a linear programming model, and the results show that the proposed model constitutes a systematic and transferable approach to tackle the problem at hand.

Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques for the Location of Multi-Modal Terminals in an Integrated Public Urban Transport System

2019 ◽  
pp. 393-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Camargo-Pérez ◽  
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Criteria Importance

Multiple actors from both private and public sectors are currently involved in the design and operation of urban passenger transport systems seeking at optimizing their own objectives. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques actually aid this process. In this chapter, the authors consider the problem of locating multimodal terminals of an integrated public passenger transport system (IPPTS). A case study for the city of Bogota, Colombia is evaluated. Majority of works in MCDM does not explicitly justify the choice of the applied technique. This chapter applies three different techniques, AHP (analytic hierarchy technique), ELECTRE II (elimination and choice expressing the reality), and CRITIC (criteria importance through intercriteria correlation), to solve problem. A feature of this study is that traditional economic and logistic criteria are evaluated together with environmental and social criteria not previously evaluated in the literature. Numerical results show that each multi-criteria approach may prefer a different alternative, depending on the intrinsic behavior of each technique.

scholarly journals Smart Cities in Turkey: Approaches, Advances and Applications with Greater Consideration for Future Urban Transport Development

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 2308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Bıyık
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Future Vision

The smart city transport concept is viewed as a future vision aiming to undertake investigations on the urban planning process and to construct policy-pathways for achieving future targets. Therefore, this paper sets out three visions for the year 2035 which bring about a radical change in the level of green transport systems (often called walking, cycling, and public transport) in Turkish urban areas. A participatory visioning technique was structured according to a three-stage technique: (i) Extensive online comprehensive survey, in which potential transport measures were researched for their relevance in promoting smart transport systems in future Turkish urban areas; (ii) semi-structured interviews, where transport strategy suggestions were developed in the context of the possible imaginary urban areas and their associated contextual description of the imaginary urban areas for each vision; (iii) participatory workshops, where an innovative method was developed to explore various creative future choices and alternatives. Overall, this paper indicates that the content of the future smart transport visions was reasonable, but such visions need a considerable degree of consensus and radical approaches for tackling them. The findings offer invaluable insights to researchers inquiring about the smart transport field, and policy-makers considering applying those into practice in their local urban areas.

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