Cities around the globe face major last mile delivery (LMD) challenges as a result of surging online commerce activity, increased parcel delivery demands, lack of parking capacity, and severe traffic congestion particularly in inner city areas. Although a number of innovative solutions and...

Background: Urban mobility management faces growing challenges that require the analysis and optimization of sustainable solutions. Digital twins (DTs) have emerged as innovative tools for this assessment, but their implementation requires standardized procedures and languages; Methods: As part...

Cities are essential for fostering wealth and economic growth. The impact of infrastructure on a city's physical, social, and institutional growth is significant. The significance of urban transportation is crucial in this situation. This paper provides an overview of the different initiatives...

With fast urbanization rates and growing multifaceted pressure on cities, urban health has become a paramount issue to be addressed at the institutional level. As such, the Mediterranean region is no exception, facing additional challenges related to its peculiar geographic and historical...

The path to low-carbon urban transport looks fundamentally different in developed and developing countries. Most cities in developing countries have not yet developed their land use and transportation infrastructure around cars, leaving a window of opportunity to chart a new path to low-carbon,...

The research aims to analyse the influence of selected factors on the demand for urban public transport in the Czech Republic. Urban public transport is important publicly provided service worldwide. In the Czech Republic this means public ownership of transport companies and massive subsidies...

In today's customer-centric urban world, service platforms like shopping mall and transportation infrastructure are growing rapidly. It is vital to improve, maintain and manage operations to achieve a consistent level-of-service. In this study, factors influencing traffic attraction in various...

In many countries and cities, both a driver’s license and a car, grants the de facto freedom to move and travel, whereas waiting at a bus stop or bicycling is a de facto public declaration of urban immobility. Cars, however, are becoming accepted as an unsustainable mode of transportation by...

We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies in the context of Bengaluru, one of India's largest cities. The city inaugurated a metro system in 2011. Yet it has low building heights even near metro stations, reflecting low floor-area ratio limits. We construct a...

This paper introduces a type of circular causation called Congestive Mode-Switching (CMS) that may arise when an increase in congestion penalizes transit relative to driving. If demand is also elastic, rising congestion persuades some transit riders to drive, which exacerbates congestion...

In an effort to fight climate change, many cities try to boost their cycling levels. They often look towards the Dutch for guidance. However, historians have only begun to uncover how and why the Netherlands became the premier cycling country of the world. Why were Dutch cyclists so successful...

African cities are growing at an extraordinary rate. Unfortunately, many cities are growing so fast that national, provincial, and city governments cannot manage how they develop or assure the provision of the services people need. This has many negative consequences for national and city...

Subsidization of urban public transportation systems is often motivated by economies of scale and second-best considerations such as an underpriced road alternative. We model a public transit line subject to frictions between users, users and vehicles, and vehicles. We derive the profit- and...

This paper uses the roll out of different modes of public transport, especially new metro and train connections, in São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR), one of the most crime-prone cities of the world and examine their impact on wide-ranging crime indices. We document that initial crime in...

Dieses Discussion Paper thematisiert die Regelwerke der Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen zur Verkehrsplanung deutscher Großstädte sowie ihren historischen Hintergrund. Anfangs werden geschichtliche Aspekte, wie die Motorisierung oder die zwei Weltkriege, und umgesetzte...

We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from which it can be reached within a specific time. Using publicly-available optimal routing software, we compute these "accessibility zones" for the 109 largest American and European...

We characterize optimal urban transportation policies in the presence of congestion and environmental externalities and evaluate their welfare and distributional effects. We present a framework of a municipal government that implements different transportation equilibria through its choice of...

Proximity for whom? Accessibility in an unequal, ageing city -- Critical issues in operationalizing the x-minute city -- Quality of the walkability for measuring accessibility: The case of the elderly people in the city of Milan -- New metrics for inclusive accessibility by proximity.

This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in...

We estimate an equilibrium model of residential sorting with endogenous traffic congestion to evaluate the efficiency and equity impacts of urban transportation policies. Leveraging fine-scale data on household travel diaries and housing transactions with home and work locations in Beijing, we...

Dialectics, or developmental transformation, would eventually cause any system to change. The level and depth of these changes vary and depend on the power of external influence and system reservation mechanisms. The art of managing system processes consists of two main aspects. The first aspect...