Sustainable Urban Mobility and Urban Safety and Security: A Case Study of the City Centre of Genoa, Italy

As sustainability is becoming a common practice in planning transport systems and mobility services, the designation and management of gender issues are of paramount importance. TInnGO is a European Project that has developed a network of 10 national Hubs to build the capacity to generate and apply evidence on gender equality and transport issues at the European level. This paper presents the project activities by introducing a relevant framework and exploring user mobility experiences based on gender to identify diversified needs and requirements. This process relies on the combination of a review of current gender-oriented experiences and practices in mobility with focus group activities conducted in four different EU cities. The insights obtained from these activities supported the design of a survey to collect information on socioeconomic, personal, and operational aspects to serve a gender-oriented transport analysis for all the Hubs. These preliminary analyses identified the main issues related to the female mobility experience, namely safety, security, accessibility, and transport reliability. Future research on the data collected through the survey would help operators in successfully improving their mobility offer to women.

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“…. " [26]. Safety can also refer to "taking measures to reduce or eliminate the risks of accidents" [27].…”

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A Preliminary Analysis on Gender Aspects in Transport Systems and Mobility Services: Presentation of a Survey Design

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“…The research proposes a new approach to integrate health security into the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan [69][70][71][72][73][74]. This approach starts from what is foreseen in the EU Guidelines for drafting a SUMP.…”

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“…The safety considered by the SUMP is mainly linked to accidents. The research proposes some integrations concerning health security in the different stages of development of a SUMP (see Figure 2) [71][72][73]. The main additions are: Phase 1.…”

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Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and Health Security

Spadaro

Pirlone

2021

Sustainability

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The topic of sustainable mobility is now a priority at the urban level. Today’s cities are often very busy, polluted, and dangerous. Therefore, to encourage sustainable mobility is important; it brings territorial development, environment, health, society, and economy benefits. The corona virus disease-19 (COVID) emergency, which occurred at the beginning of 2020, highlighted the already critical situation in many cities and how our mobility habits were not, even before, so sustainable. Within sustainable mobility, the concept of safety and security is important to consider. In the literature, safe mobility is often associated with the theme of accidents. The pandemic has highlighted the need to consider safety also from a health point of view. Municipalities, as known, also according to European guidelines, have a specific tool at their disposal to promote sustainable mobility: the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP). This paper intends to propose a methodological approach aimed at integrating the health security aspect in the SUMP. In this research, in order to promote safe mobility, different aspects were considered: accidents, risk perception, and health emergencies. For each aspect, specific indicators and good practices were proposed for the achievement and monitoring of the expected results. The paper refers to the European context with particular attention to Italy; La Spezia was chosen as a case study.

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“…In order to find balanced solutions for the development of the urban transport complex, municipal authorities should develop solutions taking into account opinions of city residents [18].…”

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The Impact Of The Cost Of Paid Parking For Private Cars And Public Transport Fare On The Structure Of Urban Mobility

Fadyushin¹,

Zakharov²

2022

Int. J. TDI

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The experience of European cities shows that with the introduction of free-fare public transport, the share of public transport trips increases insignificantly, while the number of trips by individual transport, bicycle and on foot decreases. The most common way to reduce the number of trips by private cars is to introduce parking fees and regulate the tariff. The paper examines the impact of public transport fare paid parking fees on the transport demand structure. The structure of transport demand is determined using simulation modeling on a transport macro-model of a large city with a population of 800 thousand people that do not have off-street transport. The paper proposes a criterion for determining generalized costs of travel by different transport systems, which converts monetary costs into time fares. This made it possible to take into account the costs of movement by different types of transport (private and public transport, CarSharing, taxi, pedestrian and bicycle movements). With the introduction of paid parking fees up to 80 rubles per hour, the share of private transport trips reduced from 45.5% to 37.3%. With the introduction of free public transport, private transport trips share reduced to 39.9% with a significant increase in the costs of the municipal budget.

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Sustainable Urban Mobility and Urban Safety and Security: A Case Study of the City Centre of Genoa, Italy

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A Preliminary Analysis on Gender Aspects in Transport Systems and Mobility Services: Presentation of a Survey Design

A Preliminary Analysis on Gender Aspects in Transport Systems and Mobility Services: Presentation of a Survey Design

Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and Health Security

The Impact Of The Cost Of Paid Parking For Private Cars And Public Transport Fare On The Structure Of Urban Mobility

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