Urban mobility and public transport: future perspectives and review

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to review urban transportation likely to be offered in the future. Trip-making behaviour has already changed considerably as lifestyles change and they will continue to change in the future. This work reflects and places emphasis on profound thinking about the possibilities, rather than predicting them. Thoughts about possibilities for the future draw upon imagination, perceived and justified feasibility, and lessons gained from the past. This work attempts to capture the possibilities, logistics and travel modes of future urban transportation. A visionary, feasibility-related approach grounded in a realist perspective is proposed, only conceptually, to explore plausible visions for the future. In addition, this work shows the inefficiency of using private cars (PCs) and argues that in the development of autonomous and electric vehicles, PCs cannot provide a solution competitive with the potential that urban transportation systems have for the future. Hence, the solutions for the future must be based on public transport (PT) modes of travel, regardless of whether they are metro, bus, light rail, tram, ridesharing services, an ordinary taxi, personal rapid transit, or any other PT-based future mode. The key principal of operation for the mobility of a smart city will be the ability to optimize the connectivity of movement in order to approach a seamless move, while endowing the phrase door-to-door travel with new meaning. Finally, it would be remiss not to mention the unforeseeable implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for future mobility, more controllable by automation of non-privately owned vehicle, and with the prospect of people demonstrating a greater inclination towards changing their habits, behaviour, and thinking paradigms.

Impact of Global Changes of the Pandemic Crisis on Business Models of Transport Companies

“…Thus, passengers strive to ensure the monetization of their mobility, transport companiesto optimize costs and stay in their market segment, the state pursues various, often contradictory goals related to ensuring stability, economic efficiency, socio-economic equality of society members, etc. Obviously, the rationality of behavior will lead to a change in the value of the transport service: there are obvious examples of violation of the rationality of behavior during the period of isolation and the uncertainty of getting out of it, which directed attention to the search for an assessment of new psychological factors that change the behavior of consumers of transport services, transport companies and the Russian regulator [7,8,9].…”

Autonomous Vehicles: An Analysis Both on Their Distinctiveness and the Potential Impact on Urban Transport Systems

“…All these elements must be taken int account in urban and land use planning, as they can affect parameters such as urban den sity, land use, impact on the environment, used materials, and emissions, to name a few Table 1 lists some of the possible governance strategies adopted to manage AV-relate risks on the transport network. [17].…”

“…All of these aspects reflect the way transport infrastructure is thought and built [16]. In addition, the application of AVs to public transport systems could further incentivize their use rather than smaller vehicles with lower capacity (i.e., cars) [17].…”

“…Table 1 lists some of the possible governance strategies adopted to manage AV-related risks on the transport network. [17].…”

Theoretical analysis and experimental research on multi-layer elastic damping track structure

“…Rail transit 1,2 has become the first choice for citizens to travel because of its advantages like safety, punctuality, comfort, and large carrying capacity. The increase of axle load and train speed would cause intense wheel-rail interactions, and lead to potential vibration issues in train operation.…”