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Sustainable Mobility Planning in the Tourist Centres: the Estimation of Transport Demand.

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This paper on sustainable mobility planning in tourist centers is from the proceedings of 14th international Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century, which was held in Malta in 2008. The authors focus on estimating the potential non-motorized transport demand and to design the supply of sustainable modes of transportation, including public transit, bicycling and walking. The authors use the tourist area of San Vito Lo Capo, the famous historical and swimming center of Sicily, as a case example. They conducted a stated preference survey in June-July 2006 to evaluate the potential demand of non-motorized transport modes, primarily bicycling, then calibrated a multinomial logit model from the findings. The model supports the use of a framework to design bicycle paths based on the potential demand of cycling. They conclude by briefly listing some critical factors that can influence the viability of the bicycling mode: the availability of separated cycle lanes, the rental service costs, the integration of bicycling with other modes, bicycle storage facilities at Transit/Railway stations, and the accessibility of bicycling paths.