CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN PLANNING: SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY IN URBAN POLICY AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

2012

Cities are focal points for the activities of societies. They are centres of employment, commerce, education, culture, social or political interaction. They also impose significant demands for civil infrastructure needed to support social and economic activities and a suitable quality of life. The challenges in providing this infrastructure are even bigger in the rapidly growing cities founded in developing countries. The gathering of human population in the surrounding region of these cities is shaping the primary challenges to sustainable global environment, resulting in a myriad of other adjacent challenges with significant impact on economics, transportation, environment, social equity and administration. The turn of the twenty-first century marks a divide from a predominantly rural world to one where the majority of people live in cities. The management of these urban areas, many of them organized in metropolitan associations, and the provision of shelter, services, mobility an...

NIBR-notat

2015

5-7 May 2015,Ghent, Belgium. http://www.corp.at ISBN: 978-3-9503110-8-2 (CD-ROM); ISBN: 978-3-9503110-9-9 (Print) Editors: M. SCHRENK, V. V. POPOVICH, P. ZEILE, P. ELISEI, C. BEYER 889 Sustainable Mobility as Essential Ingredient for Vibrant Cities: 3 Cases in Point Pierre Laconte (Pierre Laconte, President Foundation for the Urban Environment, Hon. Sec. Gen. International Association for Public Transport – UITP)

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.

Analyzing the urban mobility is a laborious process, on the account of the subject's complexity on one hand, and on the account of the large number of tasks involved, on the other. This could be a plausible explanation for the situation of the Romanian urban centres, which do not have recent mobility studies. In the present context, when an increased need to improve the urban mobility arose, the authorities face a multitude of deficiencies in resolving the problem. In this paper, the very beginning of the mobility assessment process, namely the data collection task, is presented under a new form of an integrated methodology. Thus, we conclude that the lack of knowledge we face at this moment from the urban mobility perspective, could be overcame in the future for the more liveable and sustainable urban centres in Romania.

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae

The aim of this publication is to present the relationship between the dominant forms of urban mobility and the environmental pressures of the transport sector as well as the quality of life of the inhabitants of large cities and urban agglomerations. The presentation of trends and scenarios is based, on the one hand, on statistics describing current development trends and, on the other hand, on scenarios, recommendations, and commitments defined in European, national, and local governmental documents programming the socio-economic development of urbanised areas and the directions of climate transformation in their area. The article consists of a brief introduction, background on the latest regulations in the field of sustainable urban mobility, and a comparative analysis of environmental demands, along with actual trends observed in the transport sector in urbanised areas. It closes with conclusions relating to the validity and effectiveness of current transport and environmental p...

2019

Since the mid-20th century, mobility in urban settings has featured the mass usage of private vehicles and rising numbers of trips made, as well as an increase in the distances travelled, rendering non-motorised transport methods less and less effective over time. Medium-sized cities have seen the strongest changes in their mobility habits in recent decades, given that they represented 54% of the increase in the Spanish population between 2001 and 2011. This significant demographic growth was, in most cases, accompanied by a considerable increase in the urban area. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for characterising mobility on a university campus so that, by defining the mobility purposes and patterns, measures can be applied to rationalise the urban transport system. The Caceres University Campus has been used as a reference since it is a clear example of segregated suburban space, located 4.5 kilometres from the city centre, with connections to the city ...

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...

METAFIZIKA International Journal of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020