Public Transport Integration, Urban Density and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 40789
Special Issue Editors
Interests: City Planning, Urban Design, Planning Theory, Strategic Planning, Regional Planning, Ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The linkage of urban form to sustainability is based mainly over its contribution to the shift of transportation mode from private ownership cars to mass transit. This objective lead to polycentric organization of metropolitan areas and concentration of population in compact and high-density settlements, rising a new interest in land use and transportation relations. However, urban morphology reorganization is long time spending and costly, in addition to social and cultural change, needing a strong prevision capacity and social awareness.
Many questions are raised: How can the whole mass transportation system (Train, Bus,…) be integrated to give the better service to urbanized land? May be transit oriented development move to transit-oriented redevelopment? How non-mechanical mobility links to mass transit and shape urban public space? How can we arrange a multi-functionality of infrastructure: low-speed mobility, green infrastructure? What king of governance for multi-scale infrastructure?
This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers presenting original and innovative contributions to the advancement of land use-transportation research in areas related to accessibility modelling and implementation, regional planning with a TOD appoach, sustainable mobility policy, mobility factor in urban regeneration. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer-review process with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.
Prof. Francesco Domenico Moccia
Prof. Alessandro Sgobbo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Urban Ecology
- Sustainability
- Urban Densification
- Polycentric Regional Planning
- Non-mechanical Mobility
- Cycling
- Pedestrian
- Transit Oriented Development
- Accessibility
- Land Use
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