GIS for Sustainable Urban Transport

Abstract

The world is urbanizing at a very fast pace. Modern geography, particularly geo-information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) are reshaping the way urban and transport planners are collecting, exploring, synthesizing, analyzing, evaluating and presenting their data. Transport GIS (or GIS-T) applications have become mainstream in leading conferences and high-level publications.Sustainable transport relates to creating transport systems that promote sustainability in terms of increasing social inclusion, reducing environmental externalities and being economically feasible. It involves the transport, as well as the land use system. In the field of sustainable transport, GI science is typically used to aid the development of concepts and methodologies for clean and sustainable mobility. Whether looking at location-allocation models of public bicycle systems, mapping children's routes to school, land use -transport interaction or calculating levels of accessibility to jobs for the urban poor, modern time GPS and GIS technologies are myriad.The six articles in this Special Issue are a good illustration of the use of GIS for transport analysis and planning. We see application of typical GIS strengths, such as digital map production (articles 1 and 2) [1,2], dynamic modelling (article 3) [3], spatial inventory of facilities/events (articles 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6) [1,2,[4][5][6], spatial data integration (articles 1, 2 and 5) [1,2,5] and spatial analysis (articles 1, 2, 4 and 6) [1,2,4,6], where it can be noted that several authors are using these GIS capabilities in combination and in integration with various statistical techniques (articles 1, 3 and 5) [1,3,5]. OPEN ACCESS

Review of methods and indicators in sustainable urban transport studies overview from 2000 to 2016

“…Many studies use this method for explaining the research in theme of sustainable urban transport. Some of the studies using this method are as follows: to describe the trends, problems and implementation of SUT [22]- [24], transportation effect on urban pollution and climate change [25], the development of an initial supplies of sustainable transportation performance indicators [26], concepts, policies and methodologies of SUT [27]- [32], use of technology [33], comparative studies in cities in a common strategy of SUT [34], [35], approaches that unites stakeholders views on the SUT [36], BRT development to promote the SUT to be more economically, socially and environmentally [37], [38], common environmental barriers and the problem [39], sources of financing [28], [40], [41], interventions in infrastructure and its indicators [42], introduces measuring tool for SUT [43], [44], introduce the use of spatial analysis for the SUT [45] and demonstrate quantitative methods for SUT [46].…”

“…[29] -Described the use of GIS in field of SUT from some studies. [45] -Propose the importance of SUT plans in mobility policy in cities. [30] -Describe the concept of SUT plans and its analysis in Europe case study.…”

Design and Implementation of GIS Data Production System for Expressway Video and Road Infostructure

“…In recent years, GIS technology has been widely adopted, which is closely related to the expressway data production and information management. GIS spatial databases are used for real-time dynamic management of graphic data and attribute data, as well as mining data's deep connection, so as to realize standardized management and scientific decision-making of expressways [4]. This study addresses the requirements of information processing of road property data; gives full play to the spatial data organization capability, spatial information calculation capability, and geographic knowledge service capability of GIS [5]; and establishes a set of intelligent, efficient, and scientific expressway data production system, so as to improve the work efficiency, work quality and automation level of operators and help managers make informative and scientific decision-making [6].…”

Characterizing Traffic Conditions from the Perspective of Spatial-Temporal Heterogeneity

“…It is simply divided into levels such as light, medium, and heavy, reflecting the degree of congestion. This condition has become a major concern for a large number of cities all over the world [2,3], as there are more and more traffic congestions and these congestions have a huge cost to society [4][5][6][7]. To manage and control the congested traffic, many cities are taking a range of actions.…”