Policy Analysis of Sustainable Transport and Mobility: The SUMMA Project

Walker, Warren E.; Grol, Rik van; Rahman, S. Adnan; Voort, Maarten van de; Röhling, Wolfgang; Burg, Robert W.

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“…Environmental sustainability is largely focused on eliminating negative outputs of public transportation services, including reductions in GHG emissions, air pollution (i.e., NOx, PM, SOx, O3), noise pollution, and waste. Also, encouraged use of renewable resources, and efficiency in material and energy use, for example, need be addressed [3][4][5]11,33,35,36]. In addition, emissions per passenger ought to be applied as an indicator, allowing for just understanding of emissions in relation to passenger volumes [35,37].…”

Section: Environmental Sustainabilitymentioning

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“…Vulnerabilities and possible environmental risks, especially regarding climate change, are to be noted through risk assessments and contingency planning [3,29,39]. Additionally, preservation of open and natural areas, environmental health, and reduction of ecological disturbances are recognized [3,5,36,38].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Special attention is to be paid to vulnerable groups, i.e., the elderly, the disabled, the young, and people with low income [16,23,38]. Elements of safety, health, equity, and social cohesion, passenger perception, as well as livable communities are part of socially sustainable public transportation [4,5,11,33,34,36,41].…”

Section: Social Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Framework for Assessing Public Transportation Sustainability in Planning and Policy-Making

Karjalainen

Juhola

2019

Sustainability

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Transportation plays a key role in urban sustainability planning and urban greenhouse gas emission reductions. Globally, cities have established sustainability agendas and policies to guide the shift from traditional private automobile dependent transportation systems towards an increased use of public transportation, cycling, and walking. While the surrounding physical urban form and governance structures condition public transportation services, there are also many other factors to consider when discussing sustainability. As such, comprehensive planning and policy-oriented assessment frameworks that are independent of local conditions are still largely missing in literature. This paper presents a Public Transportation Sustainability Indicator List (PTSIL) that provides a platform for an integrated assessment of environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability through an indicator-based approach. To demonstrate its use, the PTSIL is applied to analyze the policy documents of public transportation agencies in Helsinki, Finland, and Toronto, Canada. The results show that while both cities achieve relatively high scores in all dimensions, there is still high variability among individual indicators. The PTSIL presents a missed stepping stone between descriptive definitions of transportation sustainability and case specific sustainability performance assessments, offering an opportunity within the planning and policy-making sectors to review, assess, and develop public transportation services comprehensively.

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Section: Environmental Sustainabilitymentioning

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Section: Environmental Sustainabilitymentioning

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Framework for Assessing Public Transportation Sustainability in Planning and Policy-Making

Karjalainen

Juhola

2019

Sustainability

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“…(Boschmann & Kwan, 2008;Dobranskyte-Niskota et al, 2007;Litman, 2017). Element of safety, health, equity and social cohesion, passenger perception, as well as livable communities are parts of socially sustainable public transport (Hertel et al, 2016;Hull, 2008;Kennedy et al, 2005;Prado et al, 2012;Richardson, 2005;Schiller et al, 2010;Walker et al, 2007). Public transportation satisfaction survey conducted in Europe suggested that safety and security, system reliability, accessibility, comfort, and staff behavior are key elements affecting public transportation use (Fellesson & Friman, 2008).…”

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Policy for sustainable informal transport - a case study of feeder services in Bangkok, Thailand

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One informal public transport service in Bangkok is Silor (SR), given the meaning in Thai as four-wheeler.� SR facilitates urban mobility both in terms of major travel mode and feeder bus and mass transit lines in the city.� This research aims to investigate service characteristics and challenges of SR service, identify factors affecting the use and non-use of SR, explore travel behavior and attitudes to determine service delivery gaps in order to propose policy recommendations for the better functioning of SR service.� Interviews are conducted through questionnaire survey to collect data from supply side, including drivers and regulators, and demand sides, which involves both users and non-users.� Five SR routes are selected for study namely, Bangbon-Taladplu, Siriraj-Taladplu, Charansanitwong-Klongsan, Vibhavadi-Rachadapisek, and Sukhumvit Soi 39.� Findings from supply side reveal challenges in terms of work hour, working condition, registration of�vehicles and drivers, experiences when called by polices as well as competitions among transport modes.� For demand side, reasons for using SR are convenience, accessibility, and cheap fare whereas difficulties for non-users seem to associate with connection, transfer and crowdedness.� Importance-performance analysis are performed with users' attitudes on service quality and found that reliability, connection and transfer, seat availability and fare are the aspects of high importance and highly satisfied while safety and security seem to be of high importance but low satisfaction.� In addition, exploratory factor analysis and logistic regression model illustrate the four service factors that significantly affect the overall satisfaction of users, including reliability, in-vehicle environment, comfort and convenience, and environmental impact.� Further, the study applies user segmentation through cluster analysis based on the obtained factors which results in four user subgroups having diverse profiles and expectations.� Moreover, travel behavior and perceptions of Thai and Japanese SR users are comparatively analyzed and considerable variations among them are found.� For sustainability aspects, travelling by SR is more desirable than alternative modes in terms of less commute time, more affordable, less energy consumption and emissions; however, there still need more attention on provision of affordable, reliable, comfort and convenient services to users of all socioeconomic groups.� Most feasible options for future policy suggest transport authorities and relevant sectors in formalizing and integrating SR into urban transportation network in order to provide society with efficient alternative mode for a sustainable means of travelling.

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Policy Analysis of Sustainable Transport and Mobility: The SUMMA Project

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Framework for Assessing Public Transportation Sustainability in Planning and Policy-Making

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Policy for sustainable informal transport - a case study of feeder services in Bangkok, Thailand

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