Remote sensing for identification of trip generating territories in support of urban mobility planning and monitoring

Silva, Carlos Fabrício Assunção da; Andrade, Maurício Oliveira de; Maia, Maria Leonor Alves; Santos, Alex Mota dos; Portis, Gabriela Tobias

doi:10.1007/s10708-022-10595-7

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“…One of the growing sectors in transport and mobility is GIS and remote sensing [78][79][80][81]. Local initiatives encouraging walking and cycling have gained recognition in recent years as being among the key components of the transition to sustainable urban mobility [82].…”

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Towards a Sustainable Transport System: Exploring Capacity Building for Active Travel in Africa

Lartey,

Glaser

2024

Sustainability

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The promotion of active travel is deemed a crucial component of the transition to sustainable urban mobility. Several barriers hinder its policy implementation and uptake. Some evidence suggests that capacity building could be a useful tool for deepening sustainability efforts. This concept involves the development and deployment of skills and resources. However, a clear framework for understanding the dimensions of capacity building for active travel is lacking. Furthermore, most research and findings use cases within a Global North context, constricting implications and transferability to the Global South, especially to African cities. This study responds to the dearth of scholarly work exploring Global South cases and fills a knowledge gap regarding capacity building in the case of active travel. Through a literature review, we examined the dimensions of capacity building that are necessary to improve active travel in selected African countries. We focus on multilevel transportation governance with highlights from five African cities. Our findings suggest that the literature and policies on transport in Africa have key dimensions for capacity building for active travel but lack the introduction of key instruments and strategic pathways to meet these requirements for improved sustainable mobility. We propose a thematic guiding framework that delineates the strategic application of capacity building at three levels of governance. This framework helps integrate capacity building for active travel policies and implementation at the institutional, individual, and environmental levels.

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Towards a Sustainable Transport System: Exploring Capacity Building for Active Travel in Africa

Lartey,

Glaser

2024

Sustainability

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“…The spatial analysis of the active fires was performed through the Kernel density method [36]. According to Rudke et al [37] and Silva et al [38], this procedure consists of an exploratory interpolation technique that generates a density surface for visual identification purposes. Moreover, according to the authors, Kernel estimation depends on two parameters: radius of influence (τ) and Kernel estimation function (k).…”

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Highway Network and Fire Occurrence in Amazonian Indigenous Lands

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The construction and expansion of highways aiming to improve the integration of the most isolated regions in Brazil facilitated the access to many inhabited areas in the Amazon biome, but had as a consequence assisted the degradation of many of these regions. Over the last two decades, we have observed in this biome a gradual diversification and intensification of land uses through vegetation loss and an increase in fire associated with deforestation and an increase in grazing areas. We used data from several active fires products derived from 14 different satellites, available on the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). We evaluated the influence of highway infrastructure on fire occurrence inside and around Indigenous Lands (IL) located in the Brazilian Amazon biome, from 2008 to 2021. We classified 332 ILs into “cut by highways”, “without highways”, and “with highways in a 10 km buffer”. We performed: (a) the descriptive statistics of the fire occurrence by state, by season, and by type of land use and land cover (LULC) affected by fire; (b) the spatial distribution of the active fire density; and (c) a simple linear regression model between the fire occurrence and the IL area. Our results showed that in total, 16–46% of the fires occurred within the IL in most of the states, while the 10 km buffer was the region most affected by fire. We confirmed that in the last three years there was a significant increase in the number of active fires, representing anomalies in fire occurrence across the studied period. We discussed the result implications and the role of the highway network in environmental degradation inside and around the ILs located in the Brazilian Amazon.

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