Sustainable urban mobility indicators: policy versus practice in the case of Greek cities

Tafidis, Pavlos; Sdoukopoulos, Alexandros; Pitsiava–Latinopoulou, Magda

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.122

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“…x Tafidis, Sdoukopoulos, and Pitsiava-Latinopoulou (2017). Sustainable urban mobility indicators: Policy versus practice in the case of Greek cities.…”

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Urban transportation sustainability assessments: a systematic review of literature

Karjalainen

Juhola

2021

Transport Reviews

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The volume of urban transportation sustainability assessments in academic literature has steadily increased over the last two decades. This paper targets these studies through the first systematic literature review to construct a synthesised and critical overview of how urban transportation sustainability is in fact assessed. The sample consists of 99 peer-reviewed articles retrieved via three scientific search engines. The results reveal a Europe-centric and single-case focus, a strong interest to introduce new indicator systems with limited references to previous work, and a lack of qualitative approaches and stakeholder diversity regarding the assessment methods. Nearly 2400 indicators are identified in the articles with significant variation in their use. Furthermore, the comprehensive accounting for sustainability is often overlooked, and the inconclusive assessment results are often noted by the authors of the sample articles themselves. Our findings signal that the research field is highly fragmented and to some extent fails to accumulate knowledge generated by past studies and to comprehensively operationalise the concept of sustainability. The identified shortcomings of the assessments and their implications for transportation policy-making and planning are highlighted, and based on our results recommendations to develop more reliable, comparable, and inclusive sustainability assessments for the urban transportation sector are made.

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“…x Tafidis, Sdoukopoulos, and Pitsiava-Latinopoulou (2017). Sustainable urban mobility indicators: Policy versus practice in the case of Greek cities.…”

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Urban transportation sustainability assessments: a systematic review of literature

Karjalainen

Juhola

2021

Transport Reviews

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“…Social factors, New solutions for the mobility of people have been introduced mostly in cities. Among these solutions are free-floating and station-based car-sharing systems [18], integrated passenger transport system and shipping tariff [19], bus rapid transport, fare management integration, payment systems integration, smart cards systems, bike-sharing systems [20], prioritization of buses (dedicated lanes), park-and-ride facilities, public cars, development of pedestrian infrastructure [21,22], free-fare public transport [23] and many others.…”

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“…Raunio [42] divides the whole Millennials group into few cohorts: Generation Why (1982)(1983)(1984)(1985), middle-Millennials (1985-1999) and iGeneration (1999)(2000)(2001)(2002), and the middle one presents the core values and opinions usually assigned to young adults. Some divide the Millennials into the younger (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24) and older ones (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35), but sometimes it does not correspond to the most popular approach to generational theory [43,44]. Generally, Millennials are people born between 1981 and 1999, characterised by the widespread adoption of new technologies, especially the internet, cell phones, and social networks, which have been hypothesised as influencing on young adults' mobility, among others, through using Mobility-as-a-Service services (for example Uber, Lyft) [45].…”

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Environmental Aspects of Generation Y’s Sustainable Mobility

Suchanek

Szmelter-Jarosz

2019

Sustainability

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This research paper identifies and explores the opinions and attitudes of young people about urban transport. It is the first study on this topic, based on the survey, analysing the mobility choices of young adults (more specifically, Generation Y) in Poland and for countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of the paper is to show their travel behaviour from sustainable mobility perspective. The primary data was obtained through the online survey. The data analysis was held with use of factor analysis and ANOVA. The research results indicated the variables influencing the environmental dimension of sustainable mobility attitudes of young adults in four areas: the ecology-oriented approach to transport, opinions about sharing economy, public car concept and future transport system. The analysis of variance revealed significant differences in the ecology-oriented approach between people born in different decades, between men and women and between people with driving licences and people without them. Those results provide the insights for local authorities and mobility service providers. The recommendations at the end of the paper focus on the need for continuation of research in similar fields.

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“…In this regard, urban areas play a key role in social and economic activities despite the present poor conditions of the environment due to externalities [6]. Since a great share of the externalities derives from the operation of the transport system which comprises a major component of every urban area, it becomes clear that there is a need for adjusting and incorporating the main principles of sustainable development into transport planning [7,8]. According to the Centre for Sustainable Transportation (1997) and the European Council of Ministers of Transport (2001), sustainable transport planning should aim at a system that "allows the basic access and needs to be met safely and consistently with human and ecosystem health, promotes equity, is affordable and operates efficiently, supports a competitive economy, limits emissions and waste within the planet's ability to absorb them and uses renewable resources at or below their generation rates" [9,10].…”

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Use of social media for assessing sustainable urban mobility indicators

Sdoukopoulos¹,

Nikolaidou²,

Pitsiava–Latinopoulou³

et al. 2018

Int. J. SDP

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Achieving sustainable urban mobility is a complex and multivariate issue that requires constant monitoring and evaluation of the existing situation and possible reconsideration and adjustment of objectives and strategy. The use of indicators is perhaps the most common methodological assessment tool for the sustainable urban mobility level achieved. Key performance indicators can provide in a simple way useful information for complex phenomena in an urban area (i.e. identification of the specific problems and their development over time). Thus, they contribute at a great degree to the decisions made concerning the prioritization of measures and policies toward achieving a goal. However, the use of indicators often constitutes a highly time consuming and costly process due to the large volumes of raw data required for their calculation. In recent years, a solution toward this problem is attempted to be given through the adoption of new technologies and approaches, such as the collection and export of 'big data' from social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Social networks provide to their users a continuous and enhanced ability for communication, interface and interaction. Such networks are therefore an important potential tool for the promotion of research in the transport sector, as the amount of data generated in their context gives the possibility to analyse and investigate with greater precision critical issues (e.g. trips characteristics) of urban mobility. The present study is an attempt to link the indicators related to sustainable mobility with social networks. The main advantage resulting from the above link, beyond the possibility of a more precise evaluation of the indicators, is to highlight the society's position toward the prioritization of the various transport-related aspects and measures.

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Sustainable urban mobility indicators: policy versus practice in the case of Greek cities

Cited by 44 publications

References 15 publications

Urban transportation sustainability assessments: a systematic review of literature

Urban transportation sustainability assessments: a systematic review of literature

Environmental Aspects of Generation Y’s Sustainable Mobility

Use of social media for assessing sustainable urban mobility indicators

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