From pedestrian area to urban project: assets and challenges for the centre of Brussels

Hubert, Michel; Corijn, Eric; Neuwels, Julie; Hardy, Margaux; Vermeulen, Sofie; Vaesen, Joost

doi:10.4000/brussels.1563

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“…In accordance with the obtained results, the last few months have been characterized by a rampant form of anxiety from COVID-19, so moving around by walking or bicycles could prove to be an excellent way to combat stress not only by understanding walking or cycling as a need to move but also as a sport or relaxation activity [87].…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Resilience of Sustainable Mobility in Sicily

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented measures changing travel habits in many countries. Many users have started to prefer traveling by private cars, which is against the sustainability policies of the European cities. The necessity of gaining a deeper understanding of road users’ travel habit changes, their feelings on public transport use, and their perceptions of using sustainable urban mobility modes has emerged for future transport planning. Considering these facts, the study in this paper aimed to investigate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on road users’ perceptions, needs, and use of sustainable travel modes (i.e., public transport, walking, and cycling). An online survey was carried out during the period from March to May 2020 in the case study area, Sicily of Southern Italy. Regarding the population of the case study, the survey was representative, with 431 individuals. The survey included variables, namely gender, age, city of residence, private car ownership, walking and cycling frequency before and during the pandemic, public transport use frequency for leisure activities before and during the pandemic, need for remote working, and the stress and anxiety perception of using public transport during the pandemic. The analysis started with descriptive statistics and it was followed by correlation analysis in order to explore the characteristics of the dataset and relationship between variables. It was found that these were not statistically significantly correlated at a 95% confidence level. An ordinal regression model was applied for determining the predictions. The results suggested that women were less likely to walk during the pandemic than men. Participants were more likely to resume remote work even after the second phase in order to reduce their daily travel needs and keep their isolation. Participants have expressed a positive opinion on the use of micromobility during pandemic situations. These results can be considered as a basis for sustainable urban planning and a guide for decision-makers who aim to encourage the use of public transport, walking, cycling, and micromobility.

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“…When the plan started back in early 2016, the political debate on mobility was salient and polarized. A series of controversial issues and policies on mobility 8 generated considerable debate about the state and future of mobility in the region (Hubert et al, 2020), in which the role of cars was central: one side wanted to decrease the importance of the automobile, while another was opposed to this. The media treatment gave a lot of coverage to car supporters, which seemed to amplify the magnitude of their group in the eyes of the decision-and policymakers.…”

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Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas

Vrydagh

2022

Policy Sci

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As academic and political interest in citizen participation and democratic innovations is growing, the question of their impact on public policy remains essential to assess their genuine contribution to the normative project of democratization. Impact assessments of consultative participatory mechanisms are commonly conducted with a congruency approach-a desk-based research method which assesses impact based on the textual correspondence between a citizen-created idea and public policy documents. This method, however, lacks reliability and uniformity, and this paper therefore seeks to standardize its application and ways to improve the accuracy of its results by proposing two methodological add-ons. First, a sequential impact matrix that considers the preferences of decisionmakers before a consultative participatory mechanism to see the extent to which decisionmakers take up citizen ideas that align with or diverge from their own agenda. Second, a mixed method that combines a congruency approach with interviews of actors involved in the follow-up of the participatory process to balance their experiences with the congruency approach's main findings. The variants of the congruency approach are then applied to a deliberative minipublic-the citizen panel 'Brussels-Make Your Mobility'. This analysis shows how these methodological strategies alter the impact assessment's results, and its findings suggest that the use of a sequential impact matrix with a mixed method not only produces an accurate and reliable measurement but also generates valuable insights into the diffuse ways in which minipublics can exert substantial influences on the institutional structures and the political decision-making.

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Uptake of e-Scooters in Palermo, Italy: Do the Road Users Tend to Rent, Buy or Share?

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Nahiduzzaman

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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From pedestrian area to urban project: assets and challenges for the centre of Brussels

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Resilience of Sustainable Mobility in Sicily

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Resilience of Sustainable Mobility in Sicily

Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas

Uptake of e-Scooters in Palermo, Italy: Do the Road Users Tend to Rent, Buy or Share?

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