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...

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...

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...

The fast rates at which urban population is growing coupled with increasing demands expressed within cities have given rise to challenging freight transportation problems. The Two-echelon Vehicle Routing Problem (2E-VRP) has been proposed as a scheme to tackle city-related problems. To better...

This evaluation report is part of the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe activities related to the Green Transition. It presents the assessment of the KIC EIT Urban Mobility (EIT-UM) against the evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness, EU added value,...

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...

"Rapid urbanization and increasing demand for efficient public transportation have highlighted the need to understand public perceptions of service quality. Traditional evaluation methods may not fully capture user experiences and perceptions, and the emerging large-scale social media data...

While the relationship among land price, transportation cost, and urban sprawl under the condition of local governments monopolizing land supply has been rarely discussed in the literature, this paper addresses this gap by hypothesizing based on the monocentric city model. The hypothesis...

This paper proposes a Sustainability Assessment for the social, economic, and environmental evaluation of gated housing projects, corresponding to the indicators of accessibility, connectivity, compatibility, nodality and containment, identity, diversity, density, and adaptability. The main aim...

As urbanization progresses, urban stress has become an increasingly prominent concern, diminishing city residents’ well-being and overall quality of life. Responding to these challenges, nature-based solutions involving urban greenery have emerged as potential stress mitigators, providing...

The document is structured into five chapters. Chapter 2 provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical framework surrounding road pricing. It outlines the fundamental principles and characteristics of road pricing, while exploring the relationship between social equity and road pricing....

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...

Background: Urban freight transport has recently garnered significant attention from both professionals and academics due to its pivotal role in fostering economic and social development. Despite notable progress, this sector faces challenges that hinder its long-term sustainability. Addressing...

Modern cities are developing exponentially and thus ensuring mobility is one of the key challenges. The solution can be viewed as the determination of optimal vectors of strategic city development, including transport as a sub-system. One dominant theme in respective research discourse is...