Towards a Competitive Sustainable City

2015 ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Residential Housing ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
Embodied Practice

This chapter analyses the dynamic of the development of cycling in Italy situating it also in the European context from an economic and strategic perspective. With this aim, first there was a study of the challenge of rapidly growing urban populations in spatially very limited areas affects not only residential housing construction. It also relates to urban infrastructure and services. This led to identification of new mobility needs, met mainly by private means, with implications in terms of congestion and air pollution. Results are analysed in terms of total trips of non-motorized urban mobility and help at understanding how promoting cycling is important for individual health, environmental sustainability and transport demand management. The chapter brings the debate on sustainable transport policy into direct confrontation with the embodied practice of cycling in an urbanized environment.

Towards a Competitive Sustainable City

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Residential Housing ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
Embodied Practice

This chapter analyses the dynamic of the development of cycling in Italy situating it also in the European context from an economic and strategic perspective. With this aim, first there was a study of the challenge of rapidly growing urban populations in spatially very limited areas affects not only residential housing construction. It also relates to urban infrastructure and services. This led to identification of new mobility needs, met mainly by private means, with implications in terms of congestion and air pollution. Results are analysed in terms of total trips of non-motorized urban mobility and help at understanding how promoting cycling is important for individual health, environmental sustainability and transport demand management. The chapter brings the debate on sustainable transport policy into direct confrontation with the embodied practice of cycling in an urbanized environment.

Sustainable Transport and Quality of Life Analysis of Cycling Impact in Italy

2013 ◽  
pp. 251-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Life Analysis ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
Functional Areas

In the last 20 years cities have undergone considerable changes. The current phase of expansion, which took place in the absence of demographic pressures, has diluted urban space into functional areas, scattered randomly throughout the area. The authors therefore identify new mobility needs, met mainly by private means, with implications in terms of congestion and air pollution. Sustainable mobility is a priority intervention for the EU. This chapter studies, after a discussion of the importance of sustainable mobility, cycling in Italy from an economic and strategic perspective. Promoting cycling is important for individual health, environmental sustainability, and transport demand management. In Italy, very few people use a bicycle on a regular basis. The analysis relies on national aggregate data as well as case studies of large and small cities in an Italian region.

Sustainable Transport and Quality of Life Analysis of Cycling Impact in Italy

2013 ◽  
pp. 1279-1296
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Life Analysis ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
Functional Areas

In the last 20 years cities have undergone considerable changes. The current phase of expansion, which took place in the absence of demographic pressures, has diluted urban space into functional areas, scattered randomly throughout the area. The authors therefore identify new mobility needs, met mainly by private means, with implications in terms of congestion and air pollution. Sustainable mobility is a priority intervention for the EU. This chapter studies, after a discussion of the importance of sustainable mobility, cycling in Italy from an economic and strategic perspective. Promoting cycling is important for individual health, environmental sustainability, and transport demand management. In Italy, very few people use a bicycle on a regular basis. The analysis relies on national aggregate data as well as case studies of large and small cities in an Italian region.

Transferring Urban Mobility Studies in Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to Other Large MENA Cities: Steps toward Sustainable Transport

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Houshmand Masoumi ◽  
Erik Fruth
Keyword(s):  
Decision Makers ◽  
Lead Author ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Legal Constraints

AbstractThe number of urban mobility studies and projects in the three large metropoles of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo, is growing while other large cities do not enjoy a large share. It would be efficient for those other large cities to adapt the experiences, projects, and studies of Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to their own contexts. This paper can help facilitate that adaptation. It investigates the transferability and generalisability of the findings of a recent publication by the lead author on mobility choices in Tehran, Istanbul, and Cairo to some other large cities of more than one million inhabitants in the MENA region. The discussion provided here can provide decision-makers in the MENA region with guidance on how to utilise the findings from a recent study on Tehran/Istanbul/Cairo in their own contexts. T-tests were conducted to test the comparability of the three base cities with a sample 57 others with populations of over one million people. The results show that it would be possible to adapt the urban mobility studies of the three base megacities to 3 to 27 cities based on different criteria. Key suggestions identified by this study include providing local accessibility, neighbourhood facilities, and cycling facilities as well as removing social and legal constraints to cycling, advertising cycling, informing people about the harm arising from the overuse of cars, and increasing street connectivity by adding intersections. According to the findings, these evidence-based recommendations can enhance sustainable mobility for the inhabitants of up to 27 large cities.

scholarly journals Environmental sustainability of the Nigeria transport sector through decomposition and decoupling analysis with future framework for sustainable transport pathways

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 3238-3248
Author(s):  
Fidelis I. Abam ◽  
Ekwe B. Ekwe ◽  
Ogheneruona E. Diemuodeke ◽  
Michael I. Ofem ◽  
Bassey B. Okon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Transport Pathways ◽  
Decoupling Analysis

Global Environment Facility Support for Sustainable Transport: Early Lessons from World Bank–Assisted Projects in Mexico City, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; and Lima, Peru

2003 ◽  
Vol 1846 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Graftieaux ◽  
Walter Vergara ◽  
Todd Johnson
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Modal Shift ◽  
Global Environment Facility

Global Environment Facility (GEF) support for World Bank sustainable transport activities is described. An overview is presented of current GEF strategy for sustainable transport, which reflects a shift beyond individual technology interventions toward broader objectives, including modal shift, demand management, and land use planning. Ongoing GEF projects that exemplify this shift are reviewed by examining projects in Latin America and Asia whose aim is improving public transport, nonmotorized programs, and institutional capacity related to sustainable transport. The major lessons that can be drawn from these projects, most of which are still at an early stage, is that local authorities are often enthusiastic about getting involved in programs that simultaneously address key transportation concerns in their cities (such as access, safety, congestion, local air quality) and result in less overall energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Much can be achieved as long as project communications and promotion are addressed and carefully targeted at decision makers and potential beneficiaries.

Sustainable Transport System

2016 ◽  
pp. 259-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Spichkova ◽  
Margaret Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
On Demand

Transport systems are major emitters of greenhouse gases, which makes environmental sustainability of any transport a crucial issue. Another issue is the lack of a systematic approach to the modeling and implementation of public transport systems. Finally, there are problems with the human interfaces to public transport systems, which do not encourage, and many do not allow, comfortable and simple interaction with the system. In this chapter, the authors discuss their solutions for these problems, explaining how to cover the existing gaps in a methodological and systematic way. The main contribution of this chapter is a model of an on-demand transport system that covers all the points mentioned above and focuses on spatial planning and optimizations including environmental issues in transport planning.

scholarly journals Smart and Regenerative Urban Growth: A Literature Network Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeliki Peponi ◽  
Paulo Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

“Smart city”, “sustainable city”, “ubiquitous city”, “smart sustainable city”, “eco-city”, “regenerative city” are fuzzy concepts; they are established to mitigate the negative impact on urban growth while achieving economic, social, and environmental sustainability. This study presents the result of the literature network analysis exploring the state of the art in the concepts of smart and regenerative urban growth under urban metabolism framework. Heat-maps of impact citations, cutting-edge research on the topic, tip-top ideas, concepts, and theories are highlighted and revealed through VOSviewer bibliometrics based on a selection of 1686 documents acquired from Web of Science, for a timespan between 2010 and 2019. This study discloses that urban growth is a complex phenomenon that covers social, economic, and environmental aspects, and the overlaps between them, leading to a diverse range of concepts on urban development. In regards to our concepts of interest, smart, and regenerative urban growth, we see that there is an absence of conceptual contiguity since both concepts have been approached on an individual basis. This fact unveils the need to adopt a more holistic and interdisciplinary approach to urban planning and design, integrating these concepts to improve the quality of life and public health in urban areas.

scholarly journals Multicriteria Approach to Sustainable Transport Evaluation under Incomplete Knowledge: Electric Bikes Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Sałabun ◽  
Krzysztof Palczewski ◽  
Jarosław Wątróbski
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Interval Numbers ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Incomplete Knowledge ◽  
Pollution Levels

The problem of sustainable city transport is a growing field of study, and will be addressed in this paper. With the rising significance of present transportation systems’ negative externalities on the environment, such as the unavoidable increase of air pollution levels, cities seek sustainable means of transport and reduction of combustion cars’ utilization. Moreover, improvements in the area of renewable energy sources have led to rising trends in sustainability, driving the usage and production of electric vehicles. Currently, there is an increasing tendency of looking for more sustainable transport solutions, especially in highly congested urban areas. It seems that in that case, electric bicycles can be a good option, as they yield more benefits in comparison to cars, especially combustion cars. In this paper, we identify an assessment model for the selection of the best electric bicycle for sustainable city transport by using incomplete knowledge. For this purpose, the Characteristic Objects METhod (COMET) is used. The COMET method, proven effective in the assessment of sustainable challenges, is a modern approach, utterly free of the rank reversal phenomenon. The evaluated model considers investigated multiple criteria and is independent of chosen alternatives in the criteria domain. Hence, it can be easily modified and extended for diverse sets of decisional variants. Moreover, the presented approach allows assessing alternatives under conditions of incomplete knowledge, where some data are presented as possible interval numbers.

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