The impact of urban features in cycling potential – A tale of Portuguese cities

Lopes, Miguel; Dias, Ana Mélice; Silva, Cecília

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103149

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“…In this article, the economic benefits that are shown and proved are benefits that can perfectly be compared to a region of Porto, as they mention health costs, good ways to create jobs with efficient government spending, traffic congestion, cycling tourism, and many more. Following that, to get a much more realistic view on the situation in Porto as we stated in the introduction and not only have examples of other countries, we were happy to find Miguel Lopes, Ana Mélice Dias, Cecília Silva. (2021).…”

Section: Micro Mobility Development and Its Challenges For Portomentioning

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Micro mobility development and its challenges for Porto

Román

Akmatov

Pinter³

2022

CIMNE

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In the past years, people have become more and more aware of the climate change crisis and cities have become more crowded. Also fueled vehicle transportation has become much more expensive, inefficient and bothersome as fuel has become much more expensive as well as cars, roads used by cars have to be maintained more often and also air and sound pollution caused mostly by cars has changed the idea of transportation for the general public. To address that, governments and municipalities all over the world have been searching for solutions to give its citizens different possibilities to replace the car with other types of transportation, like giving more space to pedestrians, public transport or micro-mobility transportation. In this article, we will be focusing our attention to micro-mobility and especially to its situation in Porto as coming from other countries, we have been puzzled about the lack of bike lanes and friendliness of the city towards micro-mobility. Being ourselves mostly users of bikes in our home cities, we wanted to understand why micro-mobility wasn't developed as much in Porto as other cities in Europe or even like its neighboring cities like Aveiro. Apart from that, the societal benefits of increasing micro-mobility and its improvement on not only the economy of the city but also the quality of life of its citizens were highlighted by cities all over Europe and using them as an example would help Porto develop a secure and healthy urbanistic infrastructure that would very highly improve the city of Porto in all its senses.

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Section: Micro Mobility Development and Its Challenges For Portomentioning

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Micro mobility development and its challenges for Porto

Román

Akmatov

Pinter³

2022

CIMNE

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“…Cyclists' access to protected road cycling infrastructure plays a significant or even decisive role in the popularity of BSSs (Karpinski, 2021;Guler & Yomralioglu, 2021). A similar relationshipan increase in the number of cyclists due to the development of cycle routes-applies to all cyclists, not just BSS users (Dill, 2009;Dill & Carr, 2003;Pucher et al, 2010;Handy et al, 2014;Nordengen, et al, 2021;Rodriguez-Valencia et al, 2019;Rodriguez-Valencia et al, 2021;Lopes et al, 2021), which is development of this form of transport (Dzięcielski et al, 2020b). As indicated by studies conducted in Poland by Wolny-Kucińska, 2020, Kwiatkowski, 2021, Bieliński et al, 2020 systems in recent years have also become an element of suburban zones and peripheries of metropolitan areas.…”

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Metropolitan bicycle-sharing system in the Polish context of various needs of cities, towns, and villages

Kwiatkowski

2021

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Bicycle-sharing systems (BSSs) have started to play an important role in the transport systems of cities worldwide as a sustainable alternative to the dominant motorised mobility culture. BSSs have also expanded over time to include regions and metropolitan areas as well as small towns and rural areas. The purpose of this paper is to identify and compare the goals of connecting individual communes in a metropolitan area to a metropolitan bicycle system. The authors applied a case study of the MEVO metropolitan bicycle system consisting of electrically assisted bicycles, introduced in 2019 in 14 communes of the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area (GGSMA) in Poland. The study used GGSMA-designated metropolitan zoning to group the goals pursued by the participants when joining the project. This paper is the first to identify the goals that inclined small towns and rural areas to accede to the BSS. The results show that the largest cities in the metropolis that make up its core count on bike sharing to solve the problems of congested city centres, while small towns and rural areas see the BSS as an opportunity to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants, as the first mode of public transport, as an opportunity to be closer and more identified with the metropolitan core, and as a chance to develop tourism and recreation.

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“…Ma et al (2021) highlights the potential mental benefits of cycling and the importance of including them into active mobility policies, not only to encourage the adoption of cycling but also to encourage more frequent use for daily commuting. The bicycle is seen as an ecological and low-cost alternative to meet mobility needs, helping to democratize the city and expand social relations (Lopes et al, 2021). From an environmental perspective, and only considering its use, the bike option produces a zero level of pollutant emissions (Maggi et al, 2021).…”

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Exploring the prospects and challenges of sustainable urban mobility: Potential and limits of cycling in Venice

Bircu,

Cavallaro,

Pozzer

et al. 2024

JTLU

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The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the travel behavior of commuters, with soft modes emerging as reliable options for short-distance trips. This research focuses on evaluating the bike-friendliness of Venice, Italy, a unique city for its morphological and mobility characteristics. When considering daily commuting between the mainland and the historic city center in the lagoon, the bicycle is not an adopted solution. Yet, the recent construction of a bicycle and pedestrian path that runs alongside the main bridge between the mainland and historical city could alleviate the pressure on public transport and the use of cars, especially in peak hours. This contribution evaluates the potential for using bicycles to reach the historic center of Venice from the mainland, and the appropriateness of the infrastructural equipment. The quantitative analysis examines the current supply and demand in absolute values and in terms of modal share. Projecting the number of actual users under different scenarios until 2030, in accordance with the Venice Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and other relevant plans, the inadequate provision of parking areas for bikes emerges as an unsolved issue. A revision of the mobility layout is thus required if bicycles are expected to be a competitive alternative solution.

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The impact of urban features in cycling potential – A tale of Portuguese cities

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Micro mobility development and its challenges for Porto

Micro mobility development and its challenges for Porto

Metropolitan bicycle-sharing system in the Polish context of various needs of cities, towns, and villages

Exploring the prospects and challenges of sustainable urban mobility: Potential and limits of cycling in Venice

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