Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, is the fourth largest city in India and a hub for commerce, culture, and education. This compendium explores how cities can address complex urban mobility challenges using the city of Chennai, India as an example. The compendium showcases Chennai's...

Traffic congestion (TC) disrupts everyday life, elevating stress levels, extending commute durations, diminishing productivity, hampering air quality, and reducing the overall quality of life. Congestion exacerbates already-existing problems in densely populated cities and makes efficient urban...

The Deutschlandticket, introduced in May 2023, offers unlimited travel on all regional public transport in Germany for 49€ per month. This paper provides an overview of how the intro-duction of the ticket influenced travel behaviour and mode choice based on the GIM Traces panel, a nationwide...

EIT Urban Mobility is a knowledge and innovation community established by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in 2019. The EIT is Europe's largest innovation ecosystem, offering education, innovation and business creation services to solve global challenges. EIT Urban...

This report shares key findings and lessons learnt on how to address sexual harassment and discrimination against women and girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ) on public transport, with a focus on bus and metro services. The findings are based on...

Riding electric bicycles and using public transport are popular alternatives to private car use. Utilizing data from a 2022 survey of 6,285 participants in Germany, we examine who typically owns e-bikes or public transport tickets. We firstly employ regression analyses to identify correlations...

In September 2021, the city of Bogota' introduced a major market-based reform to its odd-even driving restriction, known as Pico y Placa. Since then, drivers have had the option to pay a daily congestion fee to be exempt from the restriction. We find t hat while the reform increased traffic, it...

Promoting and popularly developing urban transport improves environmental sustainability by reducing traffic congestion and air pollution. In the last decade, bus and metro modes, in addition to being the most in-demand, have been the most utilized to offer a practical and sustainable public...

Efficient identification of critical links in urban road networks is essential for optimizing traffic management, infrastructure planning, and resource allocation. Existing methods, such as simulation-based approaches, are computationally expensive and often impractical for large-scale networks....

Many African countries are experiencing rapid urbanization. However, job creation has not kept pace, resulting in persistently high urban unemployment rates. Based on basic job search theory, the paper revisits the relationship between employment and transport connectivity at various levels,...

The Colombian government is promoting the transition to electric vehicles in metropolitan areas; however, a lack of decision-making in intermediate and small cities hinders local sustainable objectives. The transition to clean technologies must be aligned with the realities intrinsic to cities....

Die urbane Mobilität befindet sich in einem fundamentalen Wandel. Digitalisierung, Klimaziele und neue Nutzerpräferenzen treiben die Entwicklung integrierter, datengestützter Mobilitätsangebote voran - von Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) über autonome Flotten bis hin zu smarter...

The paper analyses the attractiveness problems of urban public transportation in the context of promoting sustainable mobility and multimodality. The article is based on the methods of scientific literature and analysis and qualitative research analysis. The analytical-methodical section of the...

Citizens' activities on social media reflect their movements, which lends itself to capturing human mobility and can take explanatory sequential research in this area a big step forward. This research investigates the triangular pattern that emerges from the 3 phase sides of the human mobility...

The rapid rise of e-scooters (electric scooters) in cities around the world, boosted by the introduction of shared e-scooter services has visibly reshaped the way people move around cities, sparking both excitement and controversy. With the increase in popularity of these vehicles, concerns...

Urban functional areas, as an important fundamental component of urban planning, hold significant importance for optimizing urban layouts, resource allocation, and the rational organization of socio-economic activities. Urban functional area division using traditional methods often has...

This study evaluates the potential for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in Khartoum, Sudan, a rapidly urbanizing city facing critical transportation challenges. By integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis (SMCA), we analyze bus terminals' spatial...

Traffic congestion in urban centers not only hampers mobility but also significantly impacts economic activities and environmental sustainability. This study leverages advanced machine learning techniques to analyze and predict traffic jams, utilizing a detailed dataset of 9847 recorded accident...

Urban centers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and South Asian (SA) regions face challenges like urban sprawl, low-density development, and heavy investment in road infrastructure, worsened by fragmented governance and political instability. This study adopts a qualitative approach,...

As cities increasingly embrace shared e-scooter services (ESS) to reduce urban congestion and carbon emissions, research has primarily emphasized operational efficiency, neglecting consumer satisfaction and infrastructure adequacy. Addressing this gap, this study develops a comprehensive ESS...

Os gastos com transporte constituem uma parte expressiva dos orçamentos públicos municipais no Brasil. Tradicionalmente concentrados em investimentos de capital voltados à infraestrutura viária, os recursos têm sido progressivamente redirecionados para o custeio da operação dos sistemas...

Urban commuting in Jakarta, Indonesia, remains heavily reliant on motorcycles, yet riders exhibit diverse travel behaviors and underlying motivations. Drawing on survey data from 1143 commuters from Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi to Jakarta, this study first applies latent class cluster...

The objective of this study was to investigate factors determining the consumers' intention to adopt the Rea Vaya; a smart transport system in an emerging market setting of Johannesburg, South Africa. The study followed a quantitative research design which entailed the collection of data from 250...

Urban transportation has changed dramatically in the recent years through the large scale implementation of shared micro-mobility services, especially bike sharing systems (BSS) and electric scooter sharing (ESS). The COVID-19 pandemic brought further changes and uncertainty to this turbulent...

This discussion paper presents a comparative analysis of the market structure and charging of the main public services charged, considering some tariff charging parameters raised for each of them. The services considered in the analysis are sanitation, waste, transport, energy and telephony...

Purpose: This paper aims to identify complementary strategies for urban freight logistics in a low emission zone (LEZ) that can be implemented in downtown Medellin, Colombia. The strategies will be executed by identifying the characteristics and problems of the business establishments in the...