Introducing autonomous buses into street functional classification systems: An exploratory spatial approach

Tsigdinos, Stefanos; Karolemeas, Christos; Bakogiannis, Efthimios; Nikitas, Alexandros

doi:10.1016/j.cstp.2021.03.018

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“…In a classification system like this, it would be possible to transform street space from a mere traffic conductor to capacitors of interactions and exchanges where different speeds and modes co-exist [93]. Indeed, a considerable body of literature has already addressed the need for an alternative hierarchy through different methods (e.g., [94][95][96][97][98]) which share a common objective; the making of an accessible and inclusive road environment that, among other goals, helps cycling prosper.…”

Section: Strategic Urban Planning For Cycling Prioritisation How To Integrate Cycling?mentioning

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Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our cities in monumental ways with no sector likely being more severely impacted than transport. Lockdowns, physical spacing, transport restrictions and stay-at-home guidelines have transformed personal mobility and highlighted the mistakes of an unbalanced pro-car culture that defined a century of urban planning. One immediate effect of the virus in relation to travel demand and supply was the emergence of active travel modes because of their unique ability to provide a socially distanced way of transport. Cycling is one of the modes that has enjoyed significant attention. Numerous cities have reallocated street and public space to cyclists and introduced pro-bike interventions like pop-up cycle lanes, e-bike subsidies, free bike-share use and traffic calming measures. This newly found outbreak-induced momentum creates an opportunity to establish a new ethos that allows the promotion of potentially permanent strategies that may help cycling to be (re-)established as a robust, mainstream and resilient travel mode for inner city trips and not as a second-class alternative operating under the automobile’s giant shadow. This paper provides a state-of-the-art description of the anti-COVID cycling-friendly initiatives that have been introduced globally, the successes and failures of these initiatives, the lessons learnt that can help us redefine the bicycle’s role in local societies today and a best cycling practice policy guide for planning a more bike-centric future.

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Section: Strategic Urban Planning For Cycling Prioritisation How To Integrate Cycling?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

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“…Groups 05, 06, 07, and 08 are interconnected as they address aspects that complement each other in applications related to urban mobility. Group 05 -GIS (Geographic Information Systems), focuses on IT applications with a georeferencing focus, used for planning [138][139][140][141][142], public transportation route planning [143], stop sizing [144,145], and travel time analysis [146]. Group 06 -ICT presents studies that use the approach of Information and Communication Technology to qualify the management and planning of mobility and electric eets [147][148][149][150][151], creating information to facilitate travel decision-making [3,[152][153][154][155][156][157], incentives and promotion of multimodality [4-158-167], and improvements in passengers' relationship with public transportation through management resources [22,23,[168][169][170][171][172][173][174], planning [1,2,5,10,[175][176][177][178][179][180][181][182][183], and the integration of various distinct systems as a solution [184][185]…”

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The Role of Information Technology in Sustainable Urban Mobility Development

Petersen,

Behr

2024

Preprint

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The exponential growth of the population living in urban centers has contributed to intensifying problems related to various aspects of mobility. In this context, information technology has been widely used as an important resource for building solutions aimed at overcoming infrastructure and urbanism deficiencies, collecting information in its multiple contexts, and constructing tools for management, planning, and other resources necessary for the development of smarter forms of mobility. This qualitative article was conducted through research and bibliographic analysis where, through a systematic literature review (SLR), it investigated the different IT solutions applied in mitigating the consequences of urban mobility problems. 400 studies analyzing 72 distinct approaches to mobility were identified and classified into 16 application groups. The objective was to map the multiple aspects of sustainable urban mobility researched by the academic community in recent years. Additionally, the article highlights the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) approach.

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“…CAVs should be used predominately as first-and last-mile solutions and neighborhood feeders to complement more mainstream mass transit-oriented systems, thus serving the concept of transit-oriented development (TOD); this in an uneasy union because of their traditionally contradictory roles, so future planning efforts need to assist with balancing tensions and achieving beneficial outcomes (22). The TOD concept would be served even better if CAVs were replaced with low-speed pod-based ABs capable of sharing space with active transport modes for this firstand last-mile role (128). MaaS, a novel brand of app-powered, integrated, and multimodal transport packages including travel planning, booking and ticketing, and real-time information services (129), should promote as its backbone the use of public transport options when it comes to its automated services; private and single-occupancy CAV options should be restricted or dicentivized (e.g., charged significantly higher).…”

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The Environmental and Resource Dimensions of Automated Transport: A Nexus for Enabling Vehicle Automation to Support Sustainable Urban Mobility

Nikitas

Thomopoulos

Milakis

2021

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Automation carries paradigm-shifting potential for urban transport and has critical sustainability dimensions for the future of our cities. This article examines the diverse environmental and energy-related dimensions of automated mobility at the city level by reviewing an emerging and increasingly diversified volume of literature for road, rail, water, and air passenger transport. The multimodal nature of this investigation provides the opportunity for a novel contribution that adds value to the literature in four distinctive ways. It reviews from a sustainability angle the state of the art underpinning the transition to a paradigm of automated mobility, identifies current knowledge gaps highlighting the scarcity of non-technicalresearch outside the autonomous car's realm, articulates future directions for research and policy development, and proposes a conceptual model that contextualizes the automation-connectivity-electrification-sharing-multimodality nexus as the only way forward for vehicle automation to reach its pro-environmental and resource-saving potential.

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Introducing autonomous buses into street functional classification systems: An exploratory spatial approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 83 publications

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

The Role of Information Technology in Sustainable Urban Mobility Development

The Environmental and Resource Dimensions of Automated Transport: A Nexus for Enabling Vehicle Automation to Support Sustainable Urban Mobility

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