The spatial organization of cities has important implications for sustainable urban development. Several studies have analyzed how urban form characteristics can have different environmental impacts by influencing more or less sustainable mobility patterns. However, most of these studies present...

The spatial organization of cities has important implications for sustainable urban development. Several studies have analyzed how urban form characteristics can have different environmental impacts by influencing more or less sustainable mobility patterns. However, most of these studies present...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the costs and benefits of different demand risk sharing rules for road infrastructure concessions, from the point of view of the economic attractiveness of the projects for the concessionaire and the price reduction for users. The traffic trajectory of...

The aim of this text is to describe and discuss alternatives for new urban mobility services and alternatives for financing the urban infrastructure associated with mobility. It is considered that urban mobility depends not only on services but also on adequate urban infrastructure. Alternatives...

This work sought to identify the socioeconomic, urbanistic and mobility variables that explain the higher relative occurrence of trips by public transport (TPU - transporte público coletivo urbano), individual motorized transport (TI - transporte individual motorizado) and non-motorized...

The present study aims to analyze the Brazilian and international experience in introducing mechanisms for sharing demand risks in road infrastructure concession contracts to increase the safety and attractiveness of projects for private investments. The model adopted by Chile is discussed in...

ABSTRACT The current competition in port activity is not just a competition between ports but in terms of logistics networks to which they belong. If the geographic scope of competition corresponds to its competitive hinterland, the corresponding phase, the port regionalization of the...

Resumo A construção de uma Linha de Transporte de Mercadorias (LTM), de Sines a Espanha, vem deitar achas na fogueira da confusão que reina acerca desta problemática. Confusão não só porque a calendarização para 2015 remete qualquer decisão efetiva para um horizonte politicamente...

Resumo A construção de uma Linha de Transporte de Mercadorias (LTM), de Sines a Espanha, vem deitar achas na fogueira da confusão que reina acerca desta problemática. Confusão não só porque a calendarização para 2015 remete qualquer decisão efetiva para um horizonte politicamente...

This paper aims to shed light over the options to relocate the current Container Terminal of St. ª Apolónia in the port of Lisbon, to allow the construction of the new Cruise Terminal. Additionally, underlying this purpose is also to valuing city´s shoreline (in its environmental, tourist and...