Expansión metropolitana y movilidad: el caso de Caracas

Lizárraga, Carmen

doi:10.4067/s0250-71612012000100005

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“…The former city has consistently broken its own records for traffic jams in recent years, with 344 km of congestion in 2014 (Reolom and Italiani, 2014), and researchers have noted the extreme congestion in the latter city (Lizarraga, 2012;Thomson and Bull, 2002). All six cities have some rail-based and/or BRT public transportation systems, but these can safely be characterized as insufficient in coverage relative to the demand for high-quality public transportation.…”

Section: Citiesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Motivations for motorcycle use for Urban travel in Latin America: A qualitative study

Hagen

Pardo²,

Valente

2016

Transport Policy

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Section: Citiesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Motivations for motorcycle use for Urban travel in Latin America: A qualitative study

Hagen

Pardo²,

Valente

2016

Transport Policy

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“…Numerous cities in different locations of the Urban South have planned or implemented restructuring projects (see Table 2). Apart from the introduction of BRT, one of the main objectives Sources: Author using Godard (2008), Flores and Zegras (2012), Grey (2006), Gschwender (2005), Lizarraga (2012), UATP and UITP (2010).…”

Section: Public Transport Restructuring Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From direct to trunk-and-feeder public transport services in the Urban South: Territorial implications

Ferro

Behrens

2015

JTLU

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Abstract:In the Global South, many ongoing public transport improvement initiatives are based on a complete restructuring of the existing system. More often than not, plans call for an eventual absorption of incumbent operators into a new "formal" system or for a more radical eradication. These operators are often considered by city authorities to be the cause of inefficient transport systems. When implementing bus-rapid-transit-based plans, public transport improvement initiatives typically propose the transformation of paratransit-based direct services into feeder-trunk-distributor models that introduce new "formal" and "modern" modes. The move from direct services to feeder-trunk-distributor services can, however, have significant implications for travel patterns within the urban territory. Formal feeder-trunk-distributor public transport systems are more rigid than the paratransit-based model they are meant to replace. Some areas of cities in the Global South, generally located in peripheral zones, are growing and changing rapidly, and as such they ideally require a public transport system that is flexible and demand-responsive to fulfill their residents' basic access needs. With the introduction of formal-only trunk-and-feeder schemes, some of these benefits of paratransit services are lost. Without disregarding the need for paratransit upgrade in terms of operations and business practices, it is argued that complementarity between formal and paratransit services is possible within a feeder-trunk-distributor model. Such complementarity should eventually lead to more equitable and sustainable public transport systems in cities that are changing fast and where the development of paratransit operators has, in one way or another, contributed to the inclusion of the poorest sectors of society in the city. a pablo.salazarferro@uct.ac.za b roger.behrens@uct.ac.za

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“…The literature concerning accessibility is extensive [7,8,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18], along with empirical reviews worldwide [19][20][21][22][23][24][25] and in Latin America [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on the definition of accessibility [15,40], mainly due to its relationship to the multidimensionality of transport equity.…”

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(In)Equitable Accessibility to Sustainable Transport from Universities in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico

2020

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The equitable accessibility to higher education favours social fairness in economic opportunities. This paper provides an empirical approach to the assessment of the (in)equity of accessibility from universities to sustainable transport modes: Light Rail Transit, Bus Rapid Transit, buses, and bicycle infrastructure in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (Mexico). In particular, the study designed and calculated an Access to Sustainable Transport from University Index by combining governmental and crowdsourced Open Access Data. It used spatial analysis techniques within a Geographic Information Systems environment, and multivariate statistical methods such as Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis. The findings highlight the weakness in the accessibility to sustainable transport modes from the universities in the Metropolitan Area. Furthermore, this study revealed an unfavourable bias in the location of sustainable transport stations/stops in the vicinity of public universities. The results provide a methodology and empirical evidence for transport policy makers to reduce inequalities and therefore transport-related social exclusion in this under-represented, but socially relevant, student community.

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Expansión metropolitana y movilidad: el caso de Caracas

Cited by 18 publications

References 19 publications

Motivations for motorcycle use for Urban travel in Latin America: A qualitative study

Motivations for motorcycle use for Urban travel in Latin America: A qualitative study

From direct to trunk-and-feeder public transport services in the Urban South: Territorial implications

(In)Equitable Accessibility to Sustainable Transport from Universities in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico

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