Urban Public Transport

McLeod, Sam; Scheurer, Jan; Curtis, Carey

doi:10.1177/0885412217693570

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“…However, if car users benefit from a convenient road network and thus increase car ownership and usage, there will be more gas consumption and carbon emissions. Most work recognizes that public transport should be prioritized in cities to alleviate problems of air pollution, noise and high carbon emissions [71,72]. Hence, the hypotheses for public transport are: H 6a : The bus transit system decreases urban carbon emissions.…”

Section: Fundamental Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Panel Investigation of High-Speed Rail (HSR) and Urban Transport on China’s Carbon Footprint

Strauss

2019

Sustainability

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Rapid urbanization and industrialization in Chinese cities have substantially elevated carbon emissions, and transportation plays a major role in these emissions. Due to data availability, research on the impact of both high-speed rail (HSR) and other urban transportation modes on urban carbon emissions is rare. Using a relatively large panel of 194 Chinese cities from 2008–2013, we examine the impact of HSR, conventional rail, bus, roads, and subways on urban carbon emissions. We further document the interaction of these transport modes with geo-economic variables, and more accurately measure HSR’s impact on emissions using a comprehensive accessibility metric. During this time, China developed, constructed and began to operate an extensive HSR network. Our results show that increases in HSR lead to rises in carbon emissions, emissions per GDP unit and per capita. We also find that transportation’s impact on carbon emissions differs by city size and region, and transportation modes significantly interact with GDP, population and urban area to affect carbon emissions. These interactions imply that the government’s promotion of HSR over conventional rail may have unintended consequences and boost urban carbon emissions.

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Section: Fundamental Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Panel Investigation of High-Speed Rail (HSR) and Urban Transport on China’s Carbon Footprint

Strauss

2019

Sustainability

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“…VITALITY AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY There is a global and continuous renaissance of urban public transport systems. According to McLeod et al [20], there has also been a broad consensus among researchers for what constitutes "best practice" in this system design, such as "intermodal connectivity, provision of high-quality services, clear strategic congruency, and integration of transportation and land use policies", and these continue "as unambiguous principles in contemporary transport planning practice".…”

Section: Public Transport Systems Promoting Urbanitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Mobility and Quality of Public Spaces: The Case of Granada, Spain

Grindlay

Ochoa-Covarrubias

Lizárraga

2020

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Different forms of urban mobility have very different impacts on the urban environment and on the quality of the public spaces around them, from the "soft" pedestrian walkways and cycle paths, through the several modes of public transport to the extremely impactful mass use of private vehicles. This paper first analyses the different urban impacts of these forms of mobility, according to their characteristics, with regard to an extensive transport literature review, and they are put into relationship with the factors promoting urban quality and liveability in line with literature on urban design in terms of activity, image and form, among others. The results of this study are contrasted with the experience demonstrated in the case of Granada's metropolitan area, with its fairly adequate bus-based public transport system and the common mobility problems resulting from a high level of private vehicular use, i.e. congestion coupled with severe environmental pollution. However, a new light rail system (LRT) has been developed, with a major urban renewal along its track, and has proved to be very successful, in terms of the number of passengers, after its two years of operation. The LRT has the particularity of having an underground section, with three underground stations, and longer surface stretches with different cross sections, whereby the improvement in quality of public spaces along them can be evaluated. The high quality public spaces are those with no vehicular access whatsoever, providing a completely pedestrianized area, such as in the traditional urban road crossing axes in the towns, which have been completely freed from vehicles and now seem filled with people, for example Royal Street in Armilla, "Jacobo Camarero" Street in Albolote and "Blas de Otero" Avenue in Maracena, and the section along the university central campus which has no catenary.

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“…Coverage of different modes of transport was another widely discussed topic. Several studies argued for some specific means of transport [4,154,155], while others argued for integrated multimodal transport systems that include private vehicles, public transport, shared services and mobility on demand [71,77,[156][157][158].…”

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Context-Adapted Urban Planning for Rapid Transitioning of Personal Mobility towards Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review

Nikulina

Simon

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Sustainability related challenges in mobility planning have been recognised at the international level, and the urgency for change has been widely discussed among scholars. However, there seems to be no general agreement on the best ways to pursue such change. To seek answers to the question of how to pursue change, this study analysed the development of the broad research fields of mobility, urban planning and transitions, and the overlap of these bodies of literature. Both academic and non-academic literatures were covered. By means of a systematic literature review, as well as bibliometric studies, several prominent research themes that address change from planning and transition perspectives were identified. Moreover, these themes describe different viewpoints and challenges in mobility planning. These include planning and policy for sustainable mobility and accessibility, backcasting and scenario planning, indicators in planning, modes of transport, decision-making, studies of global North and global South, as well as overarching themes of equity, equality and justice, roles of institutions, and co-production of knowledge. Strategies for staying up to date with these fields were also identified. In the literature covered, the temporal dimension in mobility planning was described in four different ways, but little was found about how accelerated transitions towards sustainable mobility can be achieved. Further knowledge gaps were identified in relation to behavioural change, policy development, institutionalisation of planning capacity, and social sustainability in mobility planning. This created an outline for possible future studies.

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Urban Public Transport

Cited by 66 publications

References 100 publications

A Panel Investigation of High-Speed Rail (HSR) and Urban Transport on China’s Carbon Footprint

A Panel Investigation of High-Speed Rail (HSR) and Urban Transport on China’s Carbon Footprint

Urban Mobility and Quality of Public Spaces: The Case of Granada, Spain

Context-Adapted Urban Planning for Rapid Transitioning of Personal Mobility towards Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review

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