The Walkable city and the importance of the proximity environments for Barcelona’s everyday mobility

Marquet, Oriol; Miralles‐Guasch, Carme

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2014.10.012

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“…Por una parte, el ajuste en Barcelona combina el cambio modal con una apuesta por los desplazamientos de proximidad que ya venía apuntándose desde periodos anteriores (Marquet y Miralles-Guasch, 2015;Miralles-Guasch y Marquet Sarda, 2013). Con una configuración territorial densa y mixta y con un modelo de movilidad diversificado (Marquet y Miralles-Guasch, 2016), la ciudad permite que, sus habitantes cambien sus formas de movilidad y al mismo tiempo sigan aumentando el número de desplazamientos por persona y día.…”

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Efectos de la crisis económica en la movilidad cotidiana de la región metropolitana de Barcelona

Marquet

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2017

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RESUMENLa crisis económica internacional ha tenido impactos en múltiples aspectos de la vida cotidiana en España. Como soporte indispensable de la vida cotidiana, la movilidad también se ha visto afectada por la pérdida de puestos de trabajo y la caída de la capacidad de gasto de las familias. La dimensión de los cambios sin embargo depende en gran parte de las condiciones inherentes del territorio, que tiene la capacidad de potenciar o restringir las estrategias de adaptación a la crisis. El artículo propone un análisis de la movilidad cotidiana en la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona para el periodo 2004-2012, examinando la evolución de los patrones de movilidad en los años previos y posteriores a la llegada de la crisis a España. Los impactos sobre la movilidad diaria se contextualizan en base a la resiliencia territorial de cada subámbito metropolitano: Barcelona, su 1ª y 2ª coronas metropolitanas, analizando las distintas posibilidades de adaptación que cada territorio ofrece a sus ciudadanos.Palabras clave: movilidad; crisis económica; adaptación; Barcelona; resiliencia. ABSTRACTThe current international crisis has had impacts on multiple aspects of everyday life in Spain. As an indispensable support of daily life, mobility has also been affected by the loss of jobs and the fall of spending power of families. The dimension of the changes, however, depends largely on the inherent conditions of the territory, which has the ability to Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles N.º 75 -2017, págs. 9-28 I.S.S.N.: 0212-9426

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Efectos de la crisis económica en la movilidad cotidiana de la región metropolitana de Barcelona

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“…Lastly, and in line with the main aim of this paper, it is noteworthy that the territorial dimension has been repeatedly proven to play a key role in shaping people's travel behavior, in general (Ewing and Cervero ). Central urban environments are characterized by presenting closer distances between activities, higher diversity of land uses, and higher quality built environment designs, characteristics that are associated with significantly higher shares of walking activity (Marquet and Miralles‐Guasch ; Delclòs‐Alió, Gutiérrez, and Miralles‐Guasch ). At the same time, these features also allow more public transit engagement and an overall increase in accessibility (Banister ; Ewing and Cervero ).…”

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Youth Mobility and Territorial Disparities: An Analysis of Urban and Rural Barcelona

Delclòs‐Alió

Miralles‐Guasch

2019

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Travel behavior of the present generation of youths is being increasingly explored due to their relevance in shaping future accessibility needs and mobility habits. The present study offers an original perspective on this topic by identifying territorial disparities that emerge in youth mobility patterns in rural and urban areas. Unlike most previous research, we propose taking a global view on mobility by analyzing all trip purposes and transportation modes. This is conducted by analyzing a comprehensive mobility survey in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, which provides data on mobility engagement, trip purposes, modal split, travel times and territorial differences. In general, youngsters account for larger daily travel times than older adults, present a higher attachment to public transportation and walk less on a daily basis. These differences are enhanced in rural territories, where while older adults overcome accessibility issues with higher use of the private vehicle, youngsters are more likely to invest larger travel times on transit.

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“…The implementation of effective public transport networks-environmentally and socially-in place of the intensive use of private vehicles; the creation of spaces designed to prioritize, preserve, and promote bicycle and pedestrian mobility-substantially affecting the urban relations and the city model, and the consequent decentralization of services and equipment in accordance with these scales, are essential strategies of sustainable mobility. These strategies are clearly related to applying the principles of universal accessibility and to the goals of transportation accessibility [45].…”

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A Computational Method based on Radio Frequency Technologies for the Analysis of Accessibility of Disabled People in Sustainable Cities

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Abstract:The sustainability strategy in urban spaces arises from reflecting on how to achieve a more habitable city and is materialized in a series of sustainable transformations aimed at humanizing different environments so that they can be used and enjoyed by everyone without exception and regardless of their ability. Modern communication technologies allow new opportunities to analyze efficiency in the use of urban spaces from several points of view: adequacy of facilities, usability, and social integration capabilities. The research presented in this paper proposes a method to perform an analysis of movement accessibility in sustainable cities based on radio frequency technologies and the ubiquitous computing possibilities of the new Internet of Things paradigm. The proposal can be deployed in both indoor and outdoor environments to check specific locations of a city. Finally, a case study in a controlled context has been simulated to validate the proposal as a pre-deployment step in urban environments.

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The Walkable city and the importance of the proximity environments for Barcelona’s everyday mobility

Cited by 116 publications

References 34 publications

Efectos de la crisis económica en la movilidad cotidiana de la región metropolitana de Barcelona

Efectos de la crisis económica en la movilidad cotidiana de la región metropolitana de Barcelona

Youth Mobility and Territorial Disparities: An Analysis of Urban and Rural Barcelona

A Computational Method based on Radio Frequency Technologies for the Analysis of Accessibility of Disabled People in Sustainable Cities

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