Search results for "Sustainable Mobility"
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Future Cities. Urban Transformation and Sustainable Development
2016
The complex urban reality, in continuous evolution, are characterized by buildings, facilities, equipment, human capital, social capital and the ability to create sustainable economic development. Today, urban planning is called to respond to the new needs of the community, for this reason it is necessary to avoid the mistakes made in the past and think of a plan to be adapted to the change. All this is possible through the implementation of participatory strategic actions which ensure high levels of quality of life as well as responsible management of land resources. This outlines the concept of sustainable development and resilient cities, forcefully entered in today’s urban paradigm, bec…
15 Minute City Concept. A Glance at the Palermo Case Study
2022
Giving people opportunities for green technology and offering them new transportation modes are not sufficient methods for the transition to a sustainable mobility model. With the increasing importance of time, minimizing the daily travel time of people seems to be one of the crucial steps to be taken. 15 Minute City is one of the latest popular concepts assuring to reduce daily travel time and improve quality of life while enhancing environmental conditions. This paper will have a look at the concept regarding the case study of Palermo, one of the cities with the most intense traffic problems in Europe.
The role of greenways in the sustainable mobility development: The study case of western municipalities of Sicily
2018
As is known, mobility policies based on greenways represent an effective and comprehensive response to the demand for travel and recreation and to environmental protection as well. There are several reasons why spreading cycling mobility contributes to making cities more liveable: a more efficient urban transport system, less congested roads and, consequently, less noisy roads, more security on the roads, etc. Furthermore, cycling helps fight climate change and the conservation of fossil fuels, promotes forms of sustainable tourism development and, not least, physical activity and, thus, the health of citizens. Whereas greenways may constitute a strategic opportunity for the promotion of la…
Reshaping the sea-land interface through sustainable mobility: a project for a greenway in western Sicily
2018
This work illustrates the planning experience, still underway, carried out by five municipalities of western Sicily (Italy) in the preparation of a sustainable urban development strategy in the framework of the EU’s urban agenda 2014-2020. The strategy, whose general objectives are strengthening territorial cohesion and increasing accessibility to local resources, focuses on sustainable mobility corridors in coastal areas as the instruments through which such objectives can be better achieved and reciprocally integrated. After an exploration of the literature, the article provides an analysis of the potential demand for sustainable mobility in the given urban system, an explanation of the c…
Measuring the Change Towards More Sustainable Mobility:MUV Impact Evaluation Approach
2019
Urban areas can be considered the ground for the challenges related to the UN&rsquo
Strategie e contro-strategie per una città a misura d’uomo?
2018
Le strategie che da qualche anno vengono messe in campo per “costruire” città sostenibili si confrontano con i temi ambientali declinati in differenti campi. Tra questi, certamente, quello della mobilità riveste un ruolo chiave. Per tale ragione le città da tempo si stanno dotando di Piani per la mobilità sostenibile puntando sul rafforzamento del trasporto pubblico e sulle piste ciclabili. La città di Palermo, nell’ottica di migliorare e integrare i vari sistemi di trasporto, ha redatto diversi progetti di infrastrutture per le piste ciclabili finalizzati a un cambiamento delle abitudine delle persone, con conseguenti benefici ambientali. Questi progetti agiscono fortemente sugli spazi urb…
Changing commuters’ mobility behaviors of university campuses: environmental and energy comparisons
2021
Governments are required to take proper measures to promote the use of electric and hybrid vehicles and, more generally, to push people towards sweeter modalities including walking and biking. To reach such tight and challenging goals, local institutions should be deeply involved, and universities among them. The promotion of sustainable mobility practices among commuter students must be considered indeed an effective contribution to facilitating the transition towards greener cities. On purpose, students of the University of Palermo that daily commute from their residences to the campus are considered here. These commuters, in fact, mainly adopt traditional polluting transportation means. …
Sistemi di trasporto pubblico urbano via mare. Un modo per rilanciare il waterfront di Palermo
2011
New sea transport terminals can be major people movers and main centres for various urban activities and functions, determining strong social output. The city of Palermo qualifies as a prominent research territory, due to its densely urbanized and populated waterfront areas, associated with a lack of transport infrastructures and efficient transit systems to meet the mobility demand of residents and commuters. A new waterfront arrangement can improve the city image and opens the way to new urban public transport systems by sea, like ferries and hydrofoils, as an alternative to the conventional land transit systems already affected by unavoidable congestion. Plans to link by sea different de…
Gamification or Game Design? A case study in the field of sustainable commuting
2022
In the last few years, the debate among designers and sustainability experts has brought attention to many different behavioural change approaches and techniques and particularly on “gamification” processes able to better motivate and engage students or even nudge people (consumers) to more environmentally and socially responsible habits (Mousumi, 2021).But since 2011, most of the contradictions about “gamifying” boring or unpleasant experiences have been loudly shared by game designers and thinkers worldwide (Bogost, 2014). It seems that the goal of changing people’s unsustainable behaviours can be achieved by designing brand new sustainable experiences instead of gamifying the unsustainab…
MUV – MOBILITY URBAN VALUES
2021
Un gioco digitale per smartphone che promuove la mobilità individuale sostenibile, in cui i cittadini si sfidano in tornei: chi ha abitudini di mobilità più rispettose dell’ambiente vince. I dati raccolti dall’app attraverso processi aperti e partecipati sostengono i processi decisionali e stimolano nuove soluzioni di mobilità. Frutto di un progetto Horizon2020, è il risultato di sette anni di ricerca con più di venti partner internazionali (pubbliche amministrazioni, università, centri di ricerca) ed è stato testato in 21 città del mondo. I cittadini che hanno partecipato alle diverse dinamiche di gioco, oltre ad aver registrato oltre 180.000 chilometri percorsi in modo sostenibile, hanno …