Mainstreaming sustainable urban transport: putting the pieces together

Zegras, Christopher

doi:10.4337/9781849808392.00029

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“…The reduction of social vulnerability and increased access to green space [14] are other examples of these services. Given these general benefits, it could be assumed that GI reconciles the city with its ecosystem and addresses sustainability and resilience goals [35,36].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Green Street Design: Evidence from Three Cases in the U.S.

Rodríguez-Valencia

Ortiz-Ramirez

2021

Sustainability

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World cities need more green areas to promote social, economic, and environmental well-being; the problem, however, is that the space available for green infrastructure (GI) within the built environment is limited. Finding empty, free, or underutilized spaces within the built environment to be repurposed for GI has been a challenge. Streets are public, numerous, and evenly distributed, being a desirable place to fulfill this requirement. However, they are also heavily regulated public spaces, where design is standardized, and ruled by codes and manuals. Some cities in the US have implemented an increasing number of green streets (green infrastructures within the rights-of-way with environmental purposes), because of green stormwater management federal policies. This paper aims to understand the green street design procedure, based on empirical evidence. Three cities were studied (Portland, Seattle, and Philadelphia) by means of documentary information, visual inspections, and interviews. It is of special interest to unveil how traditional street design has been modified to adopt these new green elements within rights-of-way (ROW). Results show a longer and more complex street design process for green streets, where many more disciplines intervene. These results are discussed in the light of recent movements and trends in street design.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Green Street Design: Evidence from Three Cases in the U.S.

Rodríguez-Valencia

Ortiz-Ramirez

2021

Sustainability

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“…CoAXs builds on the basic idea that accessibility is an important measure of transport system performance ( 28 – 30 ). In this context, accessibility refers to the potential for individuals (in a given location) to reach destinations (such as certain types of jobs) by transit.…”

Section: Research Objectives and Approachmentioning

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Tangible Tools for Public Transportation Planning: Public Involvement and Learning for Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Design

Stewart

Zegras

Tinn

et al. 2018

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Open governance and open data have given rise to new collaborative tools for public involvement in transit planning. The research presented in this paper extends such tools, adding tangible and interactive features in an attempt to foster interaction, dialog, and social learning. Three tools, representing the impacts of bus rapid transit (BRT) projects at the street, neighborhood, and regional scales, were deployed at a series of public workshops in Boston. A pre-/post-survey design reveals substantive learning about BRT, supported by participants' general agreement with statements about social learning. The quality of dialog in the workshops may point to the potential for more in-depth, double-loop learning. Of the tools used in the workshop, participants judged the one representing the street scale to be the easiest to use, whereas they judged the touchscreen regional map to be the most relevant and credible. Further research could test such tools with more representative participants and in other settings.

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“…Divergent assessments of sustainable development have been noted by scholars [1][2][3][4]. Dimitriou [5] emphasizes that sustainability in the field of transport can be perceived as a neo-imperialist notion that neglects local values.…”

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An Assessment of Accessibility from a Socially Sustainable Urban Mobility Approach in Mass Transit Projects: Contributions from the Northern Central American Triangle

Grande-Ayala

2024

Sustainability

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This article aims to address the lack of research on the social dimension of sustainability, also known as social sustainability, in urban mobility projects, primarily in cities of the Global South. It proposes a strategy to partially assess social sustainability, focusing on accessibility, which is one of the key dimensions for conducting such an evaluation. To this end, a comparative analysis of three study cases is conducted in the capital cities of the Northern Central American Triangle (NCAT) before and after the construction of bus rapid transit (BRT) projects between 2000 and 2020. Accessibility is evaluated through equity and spatial efficiency indicators obtained through geographical information system (GIS) modeling, including layers representing transportation networks, populated areas, and locations of basic urban facilities. The result is an unprecedented assessment of accessibility in the NCAT capitals, which shows how the Guatemala City BRT project has improved the city’s social sustainability by reducing access times to basic urban facilities, mainly public health clinics and educational facilities, and narrowing the inequality gap as compared to projects in San Salvador and Tegucigalpa, the other capital cities in the NCAT. Additionally, it is emphasized that this methodology can be replicated in the Global South while considering the scarcity of information and the use of open-source software in the process.

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Mainstreaming sustainable urban transport: putting the pieces together

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Understanding Green Street Design: Evidence from Three Cases in the U.S.

Understanding Green Street Design: Evidence from Three Cases in the U.S.

Tangible Tools for Public Transportation Planning: Public Involvement and Learning for Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Design

An Assessment of Accessibility from a Socially Sustainable Urban Mobility Approach in Mass Transit Projects: Contributions from the Northern Central American Triangle

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