“Smart” or “sustainably smart” urban road networks? The most important commercial street in Thessaloniki as a case study

Anastasiadou, Kyriaki; Vougias, Spyridon

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.07.009

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“…The overall goal is meeting the principles of sustainable urban mobility, which refers to the satisfaction of urban mobility needs, at the least possible economic, social and environmental cost [42]. The optimum compromise between social, environmental, and economic criteria is therefore sought by selecting the most appropriate road infrastructure alternatives for autonomous electric vehicles.…”

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confidence: 99%

Infrastructure Planning for Autonomous Electric Vehicles, Integrating Safety and Sustainability Aspects: A Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach

Anastasiadou

Gavanas

Pitsiava-Latinopoulou

et al. 2021

Energies

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After the awareness-raising of recent years for coping with the global societal, economic and environmental challenges, the need for sustainable planning in the transport sector has become even more evident. Initiatives aiming at promoting sustainable and innovative mobility solutions, especially in urban areas where mobility needs are higher and transport problems are more intense, have been launched by different organizations around the world. In this context, autonomous electric vehicles are emerging as a promising solution; however, they are accompanied by new infrastructure requirements, along with safety concerns. Policymakers will be confronted with an array of choices, such as plug-in or wireless, dynamic or stationary charging and mixed flow with conventional vehicles or dedicated lanes, taking into account the uncertain impacts of innovation on safety and sustainability. Within this scope, these infrastructure alternatives are evaluated and prioritized, for the first time, in the present study, through the combined application of two hybrid multi-criteria analysis models, with the participation of experts. The analysis is based on a set of safety and sustainability criteria. Road safety and exposure to electromagnetic radiation emerge as the most important criteria, with the optimum solution—based on current data—consisting of plug-in charging and the circulation of autonomous electric vehicles in dedicated lanes.

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Section: Overall Goalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructure Planning for Autonomous Electric Vehicles, Integrating Safety and Sustainability Aspects: A Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach

Anastasiadou

Gavanas

Pitsiava-Latinopoulou

et al. 2021

Energies

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“…The first SUMP in Greece was completed for the metropolitan area of Thessaloniki in 2014 [59]. However, Thessaloniki still suffers from persistent sustainable urban mobility problems with negative impacts on traffic conditions, safety, and the shift towards public and active transport modes, accompanied with external impacts on the quality of the urban environment [60].…”

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Identifying and Prioritizing Sustainable Urban Mobility Barriers through a Modified Delphi-AHP Approach

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Sustainable urban mobility has been the epicenter both at the scientific and administrative level during the last decades, with a high number of relevant research projects, awareness campaigns, and other initiatives taking place at the local, national, and international level. However, many urban areas have so far achieved limited results in this direction because of political, institutional, organizational, technological, infrastructural, and socio-economic barriers as well as unforeseeable (e.g., COVID-19) conditions. The overall aim of the present research study is to support policy-making by proposing a methodology that identifies and prioritizes the sustainable mobility barriers for a specific urban area, with a view to developing effective policies. Towards this purpose, this work provides, in the first phase, a comprehensive inventory of barriers based on a literature review. In the second phase, a methodology using as a basic scientific tool a modified Delphi-AHP is proposed for the adaptation of this inventory to a specific urban area and for both the evaluation and prioritization of sustainable mobility barriers. The whole process is then applied in Thessaloniki, Greece, a European city suffering from many problems related to sustainable mobility. The above pilot application confirms that this approach can be integrated as a supporting tool in the first steps of sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs).

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“…Smart mobility is characterized by connectivity and huge amounts of data that are transmitted in real time by mobile users, data that can be used by public institutions, business and individual users for a simultaneous conduct dynamic management. Examples of the smart mobility concept implementation are presented in (Dispenza et al, 2017), where the authors propose a smart city platform that introduces and integrates new technologies in urban context with the aim to improve mobility services for citizens, in (Anastasiadou & Vougias, 2019), where a model for a proper implementation of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) based on human-centred approach in smart cities design is proposed, in (Battarra et al, 2018), where the Italy's metropolitan cities models that promote sustainable and efficient mobility are presented and analysed and in (Gross-Fengels & Fromhold-Eisebith, 2018), where the authors describe mixed methods combining qualitative and quantitative data acquisition and analysis for the adoption of Smart Mobility in rural areas. Several other scientific studies, like (Faouzi, Leung & Kurian, 2011), describing transportation data fusion, (Mangiaracina et al, 2017), presenting the Intelligent Transportation System, (Papa, Gargiulo & Russo, 2017), emphasizing on smart mobility behaviours and (Battarra et al, 2018), showing a concrete ITS examples, confirm the necessity of ICT systems for the urban smart mobility enhancement.…”

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An IoT Environmental and Motion Assistance System for the Smart Mobility Context

Cristea¹,

Petrache²,

Villanueva³

et al. 2020

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“Smart” or “sustainably smart” urban road networks? The most important commercial street in Thessaloniki as a case study

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Infrastructure Planning for Autonomous Electric Vehicles, Integrating Safety and Sustainability Aspects: A Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach

Infrastructure Planning for Autonomous Electric Vehicles, Integrating Safety and Sustainability Aspects: A Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach

Identifying and Prioritizing Sustainable Urban Mobility Barriers through a Modified Delphi-AHP Approach

An IoT Environmental and Motion Assistance System for the Smart Mobility Context

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