scholarly journals Measuring Negative Synergies of Urban Sprawl and Economic Crisis over Public Transport Efficiency

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Alonso ◽  
Andrés Monzón ◽  
Rocío Cascajo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Transport Efficiency ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Declining Demand ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

Sustainable urban mobility requires accessible and demand attractive public transport (PT) networks. However, urban sprawl has been the main characterizing growth pattern of European cities since 1950. In these increasingly dispersed cities, PT is facing increasing problems of efficiency to compete with cars. The sprawling cities are dominated by car use, especially in the peripheral areas. Moreover, Europe is still reeling under the financial crisis, which first hit the continent in 2007. In this context of economic crisis, the lack of financing resources and the declining demand for PT have further weakened the PT systems in European cities. This study considered the urban PT systems of six Spanish cities in order to determine their evolution over the last ten years. This evolution is examined in the backdrop of urban sprawl and economic crisis. The analysis is based on several indicators meant to measure PT demand, supply, and efficiency. The study shows how did each city react to the lack of resources and trip reduction during the economic crisis, by adopting different PT management strategies. The differences in reaction produced different results, but none of the cities could avoid the loss of PT efficiency. The results indicate that policy strategies need to include land use and transport measures to achieve more sustainable PT systems. Only integrated strategies could improve PT efficiency and quality levels and contribute toward increasing competitiveness of PT, even in adverse contexts.

scholarly journals Decision-Making Problems of Collective Transport Development in Terms of Sustainable Urban Mobility

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Jacyna ◽  
Piotr Kotylak
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

AbstractThe paper presents decision problems related to the development of transport systems facing planning challenges of sustainable urban mobility. Currently, city decision-makers must deal with growing difficulties related to the organisation of public transport systems. These difficulties involve the primary need for effective and ecological public transport systems and the capacity of transport service providers. These issues require a wide spectrum of research and analysis to determine expected future economic and social benefits from the implementation of environmentally friendly infrastructure investments and increasing capacity of service providers. The paper touches on the problem of the so-called green mobility in urban areas and the main management strategies associated with its development. A general formulation of the decision model, including boundary conditions and the criteria function using a sum of revenues from making the public transport offer more attractive, were proposed and discussed.

scholarly journals Use of the Sustainable Mobility Efficiency Index (SMEI) for Enhancing the Sustainable Urban Mobility in Greek Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1709
Author(s):  
Maria Morfoulaki ◽  
Jason Papathanasiou
Keyword(s):  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Efficiency Index ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Specific Procedure ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Step Procedure ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

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).

scholarly journals Diffusing Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in the EU

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.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3266 ◽  
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.

CAR SHARING AS AN ELEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY: SOME CONCLUSIONS FOR POLISH CITIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (0) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Marcin Wołek
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Car Sharing ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Model Research ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

Passenger car has influenced the development of urban space and results in the consolidation of unreasonable division of transport tasks. The traditional model of its use causes that on a daily basis it is used extensively, contributing, among others in increasing the demand for parking spaces. Car sharing creates the opportunity to increase the efficiency of car usage. Technological developments (teleinformatics, electromobility, vehicle autonomy), behavioral changes, and environmental conditions are the reasons for the emergence of new types of car sharing that allow new stakeholders to be included in the business model. Research conducted in US and Western European cities shows that car sharing has significant potential for replacing some private cars as well as a faster increase in the number of electric vehicles.

scholarly journals Analysis of the New Demand-Responsive Transport in Goiânia, Goiás

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (74) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruna Rodrigues Guimarães ◽  
Antonio Pasqualetto
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City ◽  
Motorized Transport

The demand-responsive public transport Citybus 2.0 was an innovation not only for Goiânia, but for all of Latin America. Created in 2019, this new way of getting around the city is intended to be a substitute for individual motorized transport, encouraging sustainable urban mobility. In order to analyze this new means of transport in the capital of Goiás, an online questionnaire was applied, which had 217 responses, of which 130 are users and 87 are non-users. The questionnaire had ten questions, two of which were general and eight with the purpose of collecting information on user satisfaction regarding the service provided by the new mode of transport. As for the perception of satisfaction, the items related to the cost and service range had the worst ratings.

scholarly journals Sustainable urban mobility: evidence from three developed European countries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennaro Punzo ◽  
Demetrio Panarello ◽  
Rosalia Castellano
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

AbstractThe importance acquired by private cars as the leading travel mode in most advanced countries has drawn attention to concerns related to pro-environmental travel behaviour. Indeed, the car has brought great benefits to society, albeit causing a whole lot of environmental and socio-economic consequences. In this perspective, we exploit Eurobarometer data on the attitudes of Europeans towards urban mobility to investigate the main motivations of citizens’ public transport use frequency. Ordered logistic regressions are estimated by country (Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands) and by gender. Our results suggest the key role played by a comprehensive set of socio-demographic, economic, and environmental aspects in determining urban travel behaviour. Moreover, our investigation brings to light some relevant cross-country and cross-gender commonalities and differences. The provided evidence may give policymakers a better knowledge of travel behaviour, useful for designing new interventions for environmentally-sustainable travelling.

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