The Health Cost of Transport in Cities

Gößling, Stefan; Nicolosi, Jessica; Litman, Todd

doi:10.1007/s40572-021-00308-6

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“…Sustainable of urban transport systems has an impact on urban economic development, which has been recognized by an increasing number of scholars. Jiao et al [16] explored the useful information of modern transportation systems to improve the efficiency and sustainability of transportation from the perspectives of energy conservation and emission reduction; considered capital input, labor input, and energy input as the input end of the transportation system; and reflected on the role of the transportation sector in the added value of the GDP to economic growth, thereby helping different cities formulate relevant policies and implement corresponding measures. Gomes et al [35] applied optimal control theory to policy design and designed a dynamic model for planning and developing sustainable transportation systems, which can formulate policy scenarios on energy saving technology investment and its impact on states.…”

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“…Better transportation and cost reduction are conducive to the movement of people and goods in cities, the promotion of economic trade, and the sustainable development of modern cities [1,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. The definition of sustainable development by the World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) introduces social, economic, and environmental dimensions [1,9,10,17,18].…”

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Knowledge-Mapping Analysis of Urban Sustainable Transportation Using CiteSpace

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With the accelerating process of global urbanization, environmental protection has become a hot issue for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, with such questions as how to make urban transportation markedly sustainable to meet the pace of sustainable economic and social growth. This study visualizes and quantifies the extant publications on urban sustainable transportation research on Web of Science using CiteSpace for a wide range of research topics, including the intellectual structure, development, and evolution of urban sustainable transportation. First, this study presents the characteristics of a number of published papers in relevant fields and time stages, including publication in journals, co-occurrence of keywords, co-occurrence of disciplines and fields, and co-occurrence of the literature through network analysis. This study identifies the basic research contents and high-frequency knowledge contents of urban sustainable transportation. Second, this research analyzes the authors’ cooperation, national cooperation, and research institute cooperation networks. This study identifies the most influential authors, research institutions, and countries. Lastly, this study identifies the research frontiers and trend themes from 1991 to 30 September 2022 through co-citation clustering and research on burst detection, a combination of bibliometric methods, and a systematic review. Accordingly, this study demonstrates the research progress in this field from the perspectives of multiple themes, such as land development and utilization, sustainable transportation systems, low-carbon paths, public transport, electric vehicles, sharing modes, traveler behavior, and smart cities. These aspects provide readers with a preliminary understanding of the development of urban sustainable transportation, indicating that multidisciplinary, multiprofessional, and multiangle cooperation and analysis will become the dominant trend in this field.

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Knowledge-Mapping Analysis of Urban Sustainable Transportation Using CiteSpace

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“…Therefore, there is a strong demand to restructure and even rebuild transport infrastructure. The promotion of cycling does not only contribute to a better air quality level but also contributes to saving space [2] and health costs [3]. Effective cycling promotion requires that privileges and space for cars be reduced.…”

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Extraction of Geolocations from Site Maps in the Context of Traffic Counting

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Marx Gómez

2024

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The further promotion of cycling is a key component for each city to reach its sustainability goals. To make decisions to improve comfort or safety for cyclists, the amount of motorized traffic should be taken into account. Therefore, traffic data play a crucial role not only in the construction of roads but also in cycling planning. This data source provides insights essential for road infrastructure development and optimizing various modes of transportation, such as bike paths. However, processing municipal traffic data becomes a challenge when stationary traffic-counting stations lack geo-referencing in relational databases. In this case, the locations of traffic counters are solely displayed on a PDF-based site map without inherent geo-referencing, and the geo-coordinates are not stored in any relational database. The absence of geo-references poses a significant hurdle for traffic-planning experts in decision-making processes. Hence, this study aims to address this issue by finding a suitable approach to extract the geo-coordinates from the site maps. Several potential solutions are discussed and compared in terms of time dimension, usability, extensibility, error treatment and the accuracy of results. Leveraging the open-source tool QGIS, geo-coordinates may be successfully extracted from the PDF-based site maps, resulting in the creation of a GeoTIFF file incorporating coordinates and the rotated site map. Geo-coordinates can then be derived from the GeoTIFF files using x and y coordinates, computed through the rotation matrix formula. Over 1400 measurement locations may be extracted based on the preferred approach, facilitating more informed decision-making in traffic planning.

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“…These local policies are also crucial for wider sustainability goals. Decarbonizing urban transport can indeed bring significant benefits on a large array of issues such as cleaner air, noise and road accident reduction, or better health due to the shift to active transportation modes 8 .…”

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Environmental and welfare gains via urban transport policy portfolios across 120 cities

2023

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City-level policies are increasingly recognized as key components of strategies to reduce transport greenhouse gas emissions. However, at a global scale, their total efficiencies, costs, and practical feasibility remain unclear. Here, we use a spatially-explicit urban economic model, systematically calibrated on 120 cities worldwide, to analyze the impact of four representative policies aiming at mitigating transportation GHG emissions, also accounting for their economic welfare impacts and health co-benefits. Applying these policies in all cities, we find that total transportation GHG emissions can be reduced by 28% in 15 years, compared with the baseline scenario. However, the consequences of the same policies vary widely between cities, with specific effects depending on the policy considered, income level, population growth rate, spatial organization, and existing public transport supply. Impacts on transport emissions span from high to almost zero, and consequences in terms of welfare can either be positive or negative. Applying only welfare-increasing policies captures most of the emission reductions: overall, they reduce emissions by 20% in 15 years. Our results highlight that there is no one-size-fits-all optimal policy to mitigate urban transport emissions but that cities can match their specific situation with a selection of mitigation policies: hence, we call for global climate mitigation models to better represent heterogeneity across cities.

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The Health Cost of Transport in Cities

Cited by 12 publications

References 62 publications

Knowledge-Mapping Analysis of Urban Sustainable Transportation Using CiteSpace

Knowledge-Mapping Analysis of Urban Sustainable Transportation Using CiteSpace

Extraction of Geolocations from Site Maps in the Context of Traffic Counting

Environmental and welfare gains via urban transport policy portfolios across 120 cities

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