Sustainable Urban Transport Planning

Abstract

Environmental protection has become a common issue in every area, but extremely important for the domains which deal with intensive energy consumption as it is the case of the transportation. Achieving the sustainable cities on the other hand, is also focused on the protection of the environment in order to provide a higher quality of life for the population. Therefore it is considered that by improving the urban transportation planning additional benefits could be provided for both the environment and the sustainable development of the cities. One possibility is to supplement the traditionally land-use plans with the transportrelated zones analysis, where the city is divided in public transport, pedestrian and caroriented zones. Analyzing the transport-related zones of a city is important as it provides additional information in the assessment of the development trend. The process of zoning was conducted for the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In this paper, the outcome of the zoning was analyzed for a more comprehensive review of the urban transport in order to attain a sustainable-oriented approach of the urban area development.

Multi-Criteria Decision Making Process in Metropolitan Transport Means Selection Based on the Sharing Mobility Idea

“…Some of them are incentives to attract passengers to transit: collective taxis [25][26][27], mobility management (MM) [28][29][30][31][32], carpooling [33][34][35][36], car-sharing [37][38][39], or clean transit fleets [40]. The other works present tools for disincentives to the use of private cars, for example, time access restrictions [41,42], optimization of the access control system [43], pedestrian zones [44], permits for central areas only for clean vehicles [45], pricing policies [46,47], goods delivery distribution systems [48], infrastructure investments [49][50][51] and others.…”

Dataset on commuting patterns and mode-switching behavior under prospective policy scenarios for public transport

“…1). Several studies were previously conducted [1,2] with regards to data collection from individuals for the assessment of sustainable urban mobility in post-socialist urban areas [3], but data was scarce, and studies were exploratory. Toșa et al.…”

A Study on the Methodology for Estimating Floating Population in Microscopic Spatial Units

“…In particular, changes in a transportation system centered on road infrastructure facilities affect the mode choices of passengers, resulting in a decrease in pedestrian traffic [9,10]. There have been studies that criticize car-oriented urban planning as not sustainable [11,12]. Compact cities and transit-oriented development (TOD) have recently attracted attention as an important paradigm of urban development.…”