Multi‐criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas

Abstract

This paper proposes a procedure to evaluate sustainable mobility in urban areas. A set of indicators according to three dimensions of sustainability, i.e., environment, economics, and social aspects, are proposed to evaluate mobility in urban areas. The sustainable mobility evaluation is based on an Index calculated through a weighted multi-criteria combination procedure. A group of specialists in Brazil was involved in the development of the Index by defining the weights for the criteria. An application of the methodology in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the State of Minas Gerais, with 2.24 million inhabitants, is presented to validate the methodology.

Toward an urban transport sustainability index: an European comparison

“…In general, criteria e sub criteria are a way to decompose the sustainability concepts, and are related to generic scopes as such as: promotion of public transport, environmental comfort and safety [7]; more specific policies are reported in [27]. This procedure is very flexible in simplify the decision process, but it is less relevant when the objective is to identify a core set of TPIs.…”

“…An evaluation framework, based on indentified TPIs, has been developed in order to measure the sustainability of a given urban area. [7,8] proposed a methodology to build a Sustainable Mobility Index in urban areas, using a Multi Criteria Analysis method for weighting selected transport and land use indicators. [5,11,27,31] used similar approaches (based on multi criteria analysis) to evaluate transport sustainability at country level.…”

Multi-criteria Analysis to Support Mobility Management at a University Campus

“…The AHP (Saaty, 1980) has been applied since the 1980s to support the evaluation and selection of alternative courses of action in the transport field. Many applications concern infrastructural projects or technology, nonetheless there are studies which deal with urban mobility or urban transportation investments in a broad sense (Campos, Ramos, & de Miranda e Silva Correia, 2009;Pak, Tsuji, & Suzuki, 1987;Teng & Tzeng, 1996); conversely, the use of the AHP to support the analysis of specific portions of the urban mobility system (like historical areas, large hospitals or university campuses) and the evaluation of interventions on accessibility conditions are lacking (Miralles-Guasch & Domene, 2010).…”

A Comparative Assessment of Transport-Sustainability in Central and Eastern European Countries with a Brief Reference to the Republic of Serbia

“…The need to explore statistical resources for the proposed set of indicators in different European cities has been suggested. Campos, Ramos, and Miranda (2009) also addressed sustainable mobility in urban areas. Based on the objective of achieving an efficient mod of sustainable urban development, five themes defining the first level of analysis were proposed.…”

“…A novel approach for the comparative assessment of cities or metropolitan areas in terms of the impacts of their transportation systems has recently been proposed using a sustainability footprint model (Amekudzi, Khisti, and Khayesi 2009). Campos and Ramos (2005) derived a Sustainable Mobility Index for urban areas using selected transport and land use indicators. The aggregation procedure was performed using a Weighted Linear Combination approach.…”