The impact of land use characteristics for sustainable mobility: the case study of Rome

European Transport Research Review

Original Paper

Stefano Gori¹  Marco Petrelli¹  Marialisa Nigro¹ 

[1] Department of Civil Engineering, Roma Tre University, Via Vito Volterra 62, 00146, Rome, Italy;

关键词: Sustainable mobility;    Land use;    Urban transport;    Public transport;   

DOI  :  10.1007/s12544-012-0077-6

 received in 2011-03-31, accepted in 2012-02-21,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundSustainable mobility requires actions to reduce the need for travel, to promote modal shift, to reduce trip lengths and to increase efficiency of transport system. Public transport could play an important role to solve part of the needs previously reported. Starting from these remarks, the present paper analyse the role, the importance and the impact of land use characteristics to develop services able to compete with automobile use. This analysis is carried out by studying the real world case of the city of Rome in Italy.ResultsThe results of the test carried out highlight the importance of density of residences and activities, the need for a good quality access system to the transit services stops and the importance of the configuration of the transit network, identifying the best way to connect the different districts of the urban area. However, single actions are not sufficient to achieve a sustainable transport system: these actions can be successful only if they are planned in a complex unique system that helps the synergic development of the effects of the single actions proposed.

【 授权许可】

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