Sustainable Urban Transport System Development Reducing Traffic Congestions Costs

Keršys, Artūras

doi:10.5755/j01.ee.22.1.213

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“…Under a business as usual scenario, globally an additional 45,000-77,000 km 2 would be required for car parking alone by 2050 (Dulac 2013), a land area equivalent to the size of Denmark. As a result, the space requirements of private vehicular traffic not only imply further de-densification of cities, but they are also a major contributor to congestion and parking pressures on public space, as road infrastructure provision is frequently unable to keep up with rising levels of vehicular traffic (Kersys 2011;World Bank 2014b).…”

Section: Urban Accessibility Pathwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessibility in Cities: Transport and Urban Form

Rode

Floater

Thomopoulos

et al. 2017

Lecture Notes in Mobility

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Section: Urban Accessibility Pathwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessibility in Cities: Transport and Urban Form

Rode

Floater

Thomopoulos

et al. 2017

Lecture Notes in Mobility

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“…This method relates to the analysis of wasted time caused by congestion as one of the main factors in the measurement of the SUT [49].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…-to explore the transport policies in fast emerging economies countries according to distribute equitable access to profits and prospects; [48] Expenses evaluation -Analyse time waste due to congestions. [49] Correlation analyses -Describe the level of SUT composite index in various cities in the world and identified its factors.…”

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Review of methods and indicators in sustainable urban transport studies overview from 2000 to 2016

Nadi

Murad²

2017

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The attention of countries either the developed or developing countries on sustainable urban transport is becoming more popular. The purpose of paper is to review the methods and the indicators used for measuring performance of sustainable urban transport. This study is based on the literature review and the case study observation and also uses the quantitative assessment. It reviews the theoretical aspects of sustainability factors at various research works and performance indicator in urban transportation. The indicators were classified into two major categories: (i) assessment methods in sustainable urban transport (SUT), and (ii) basic of sustainability indicators for urban transport. This study found several types of analytical techniques for measuring sustainability indicators in urban transport. It also identify five indicators as basic element to measure sustainable urban transport performance i.e. traffic congestion, traffic air pollution, traffic noise pollution, traffic accidents and land consumption for transport infrastructure.

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“…Relevant national and EU policies and plans to foster the ridership of urban (inter-urban) public transport modes refer to fleet renewal and subsidization, as long as subsidies reflect in lower prices and/or higher frequencies and they are not absorbed by inefficiencies. Regarding the management of private vehicle travel and congestion effects (see Kersys, 2011), relevant policies and plans involve the adoption of advanced traffic management systems, introduction of road use or congestion charges, fuel and environmental taxes, increase of parking fees, and other administrative and regulatory measures, such as coordinated transport and land-use control.…”

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Disaggregate Analysis of Gasoline Consumption Demand of Greek Households

Tsekeris

2012

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The expenditure on private vehicle usage is an important aspect of the budget allocation process of households, which has important implications for the sustainable urban development and transport, energy and environmental policy making. This paper examines the gasoline consumption demand of Greek households using cross-sectional micro-data from a country-wide Household Budget Survey (HBS) during the period 2004/05. The two-step Heckman modeling methodology is adopted to jointly estimate the probability of selecting to use private vehicle and the amount of using it. In this way, it can help to identify and better explain factors for which some private vehicle owners/holders do (not) actually consume that mode. The results offer valuable insight into the existence of feedback relationship between the decision-making mechanisms of selecting to use private vehicle and amount of usage, in terms of the amount of money spent for gasoline consumption. They also indicate the statistically significant impact of region-specific fixed effects, which implies that unobserved or omitted factors associated with each Region have a different impact on the decision to choose and the amount of using private vehicle. The income variable has a statistically significant positive impact on the selection and usage of a private vehicle. The estimated income elasticity suggests that a private vehicle travel is relatively inelastic (normal and necessity good). Its value reflects the increased car dependence and it is within the range of other income elasticities found in the literature. The male gender of household head, the amount of cars owned, the participation of family members in the labour market, the family size (a single-parent or couples with at least one child older than 18 years-old) and the expenditure on communication and tourism increase the probability of private vehicle gasoline consumption. The latter finding verifies that private vehicle constitutes an important means of transport during vacation. The use of communication devices, especially a mobile phone, reinforces the use of private vehicle, as it weakens the need for short-range activity planning in advance and the range and extent of social networking. On the contrary, the high population densities, the connection to the internet and the aging of household head reduce the probability of private vehicle gasoline consumption. The above results signify the role of personal and intra-household constraints, mostly related to size and aging structure, on the selection and use of a private vehicle. The expenditure on most other transport categories, such as an urban public transport, taxi, coach and rail negatively and statistically significantly affect private vehicle gasoline consumption. This outcome stresses the competitive relationship between the private vehicle and other transport modes which are mainly used in urban areas (urban bus, metro, and taxi). The study findings suggest the design of more sustainable leisure travel services, focussed on upgrading the qualit...

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Sustainable Urban Transport System Development Reducing Traffic Congestions Costs

Cited by 16 publications

References 25 publications

Accessibility in Cities: Transport and Urban Form

Accessibility in Cities: Transport and Urban Form

Review of methods and indicators in sustainable urban transport studies overview from 2000 to 2016

Disaggregate Analysis of Gasoline Consumption Demand of Greek Households

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