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The article describes the development of the Sustainable Urban Transport Index (SUTI) for cities in the Asia-Pacific region. The first step was designing a conceptual framework based on literature on sustainable development and transport while incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of relevance for urban transport planning. The seco...
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... full conceptual framework is shown in Table 3. Each aspect is to be reflected in the construction of SUTI. ...
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... Gruyter et al. 2017; Gillis et al 2016; Martino et al 2010; Jean and Amekudzi 2005). The domains also reflect key aspects of the SUTI framework (Table 3). While the three latter domains refer directly to impacts of transport on each of the sustainable development dimensions, the 'transport system' domain is important in support of planning and management of transport. ...
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... The current modes of transport in Pathum Thani Province pose significant challenges for first-and last-mile connectivity within the overall urban transport chain. Issues related to service quality, environmental impact, road safety, and integration with the formal mass transit system further exacerbate mobility inefficiencies [15], [16]. ...
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In this study, evaluating sustainable urban mobility is to understand the level of transport
development of suburban areas as well as applied in network planning to promote public
transport travel. This is a way to lower the utilization of personal vehicles and traffic
congestion. This study adopted a collection of 10 indicators on the basis of the
Sustainability of Urban Mobility Index for an enhancement of urban mobility in suburban
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Indicator 4: Public Transport Reliability and Quality. With this methodological approach,
it does not only facilitates in-depth discussions on urban transport challenges, but also
contributes to enhancing accessibility, fostering high-quality mobility, and promoting
sustainable transportation solutions within and beyond urban areas. As a robust analytical
tool, it enables the assessment of existing urban mobility conditions and supports
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... Concerning the coding category 'definition of sustainable urban mobility', two sub-codes were applied: 'broader definitions' and 'narrower definitions'. This reflects the fact that there is no universal definition of sustainable urban mobility, either among experts and academics or among practitioners (Gudmundsson and Regmi, 2017;Marsden et al., 2010). However, these two general groups can be distinguished in the range of definitions in the academic literature (Kayal et al., 2014). ...
Transitioning to sustainable urban mobility in the EU requires a complex policy mix covering various transport modalities and levels of governance. Yet, existing studies focus mainly on a single modality or governance level as unit of analysis. To fill this gap, this article combines the literatures on policy mixes and on urban mobility transition to investigate the relations between various policies influencing the transition to sustainable urban mobility across governance levels. Analysing data from 32 interviews focused on Dutch cities, two key conflicts are identified as hampering the transition to sustainable urban mobility: i) a bias of national funding towards solving bottlenecks through infrastructure development; ii) a significant influence of the national level on the local level, while the former is hardly influenced by others. The analysis suggests that these conflicts might be overcome by shifting the emphasis of national funding to mobility in a broader sense and institutionalizing multilevel cooperation.
... Using 15 indicators weighted by the equal weighting method, a composite indicator was calculated to identify transport gaps between different cities. Gudmundsson and Regmi [37] analyzed the transport sustainability in four Asia-Pacific cities using the urban transport index, developed from 10 elementary indicators applying the equal weighting method. Costa et al. [38] introduced an urban mobility index to evaluate transport sustainability using equal weighting, applied in Greater Vitoria, Brazil. ...
... In essence, the majority of the existing approaches use compensatory methods, signaling a preference for weak sustainability. A limited number of studies, such as [35,37,48], have opted for partially compensatory aggregation, indicating a nuanced approach to sustainability. Additionally, in [11], the authors proposed a non-compensatory composite indicator, demonstrating a commitment to strong sustainability. ...
... In essence, the majority of the existing approaches use compensatory methods, signaling a preference for weak sustainability. A limited number of studies, such as [35,37,48], have opted for partially compensatory aggregation, indicating a nuanced approach to sustainability. Additionally, in [11], the authors proposed a noncompensatory composite indicator, demonstrating a commitment to strong sustainability. ...
The transportation sector significantly impacts economic development; however, its sustainability is challenged, particularly due to the increase in urban vehicle numbers and the associated negative consequences. In response, diverse evaluation methods have been introduced to assist decision-makers in assessing sustainability, accompanied by the development of numerous indicators to monitor the progress of sustainable transport systems. Consequently, the evaluation of the transport system has become crucial. This study conducts a comprehensive literature review on existing approaches used to assess transport sustainability through composite indicators. The analysis began by selecting articles using keywords like “sustainable transport”, “sustainability indicators”, “composite index”, and “assessment”. Subsequently, 61 relevant articles were identified, and only 47 studies from the period 2002–2022 were selected. The analysis was completed by synthesizing the literature and presenting the findings. The examination of literature trends revealed a limited focus on freight transport, with most studies concentrating solely on traditional sustainability dimensions. Additionally, the analysis highlighted the significant impact of various normalization, weighting, and aggregation methods on composite indicator results. Finally, recommendations for precise sustainability assessments are provided to guide future research endeavors.
... Since a standardized set of indicators for assessing the sustainability of transportation does not exist for a developing city in Asia, a set of 26 indicators have been selected from previous research studies [4,7,10,22,[23][24][25][26][27][28]. The indicators provide a wide spectrum towards sustainable transport from developed cities in Europe, Asian cities and international organizations. ...
... Green transportation can support sustainability in agriculture through the introduction of a rural transport system. Green and sustainable transportation also helps to achieve the goal of good health and well-being for all ages as it uses eco-friendly practices (Gudmundsson & Regmi, 2017). Improved environmental condition is attained by educating the tourism stakeholders about the benefits of green transportation and its positive impact on the environment. ...
Emerging technological advancements and sustainability concerns have initiated the integration of smart technologies into the transportation infrastructure at major cities and tourist hubs. The rising environmental concerns have called for a shift in focus from conventional methods to innovative green transport initiatives being formulated by DMOs and destination planners. The use of data analytics and artificial intelligence in transportation has been proven to be a reasonable method for sustainable transportation. This study focuses on assessing the value propositions of smart transportation systems in enriching the tourist experience by providing convenient travel solutions. The chapter focuses on understanding the value proposition of smart transport designs at destinations and the long-term prospects of installing such sustainable infrastructure at major tourist hubs. The study also aims to evaluate the tourist experience in using smart transportation services and the potential benefits and challenges involved in the practical implementation of such systems.
... The indicator system applied in this work helps capture this conflict, where it instead recognizes this as a feature of the provisioning system as opposed to a social or environmental indicator (of which they were defined in previous studies) and instead allows for an investigation of these social and ecological impacts of changes to these features. By connecting these ecological and social implications, the embedded duality of this framework helps to fill the research gap Mean value on a scale of 1(very poor quality) to 10 (very high quality) of the national publictransport service (based on survey responses) Satisfaction survey Bojković et al. (2010); Gudmundsson and Regmi (2017) Satisfaction of citizens regarding variety and quality of transport options identified in Zhao et al.'s (2020) review which found that social aspects of sustainable transport were under-researched. ...
With the concurrent challenges of looming ecological crisis and growing global social inequity, the need to assess the socio-ecological efficiency of provisioning systems to assess progress towards a ‘safe and just space’ has been highlighted in the literature. Mobility systems represent good examples of provisioning systems required to gain access to essential services and for human connectivity. They also act, however, as a significant source of environmental degradation and are subject to significant social inequalities associated with transport accessibility, affordability, and social externalities, such as traffic fatalities and local air pollution. Sustainable mobility indicator and ‘safe and just space’ studies have thus far struggled to capture a strong state of sustainability (as opposed to relative improvement measurements), at a sectoral depth that allows for actionable insight, respectively. This work thus reviewed both literature fields, collecting mobility indicators as well as sectoral ecological and social thresholds, and organized them according to a developed strong sustainability framework. Through this approach, this work accomplishes three goals: 1) assists in characterizing a ‘safe and just space’ for mobility provisioning systems through the development of an indicator system 2) Provides a layered understanding of their use and suggests future use of them 3) Provides an organized basket of indicators for practitioners to make use of. In achieving these goals, this work helps connect social and ecological thresholds for the transport sector at a granular level, assisting practitioners in applying and measuring strong sustainability states for mobility provisioning.
... 2022a, 2022b, 2022c) и Всемирной книги фактов (англ.: World Factbook) (Central Intelligence Agency 2021) о транспортной развитости территорий 27 1 стран Европейского Союза в 2019 году. Для достижения цели исследования использовались следующие методы: монографический метод, логический анализ и синтез концептуальной сущности феномена "транспортная развитость территории", индексный метод -количественный метод, основанный на минимальных и максимальных значениях (Motoryn et al. 2020;Rybalkin et al. 2021), применимый к оценке транспортной развитости территории (Ambarwati et al. 2017;Gudmundsson, Regmi 2017;Walters et al. 2022). ...
... Для получения суммарного значения индекса по каждой изучаемой территории расчёты производятся по всей совокупности показателей транспортной развитости территории для стран ЕС в 2019 году. Эти данные составляют эмпирическую базу исследования и обрабатываются индексным методом -количественным методом, основанным на минимальных и максимальных значениях (Ajvazian 2005;Gudmundsson, Regmi 2017;Rybalkin et al. 2021). ...
... Then, using 15 indicators weighted by the equal weighting method, a composite indicator was calculated to identify transport gaps between different cities. Gudmundsson and Regmi [32] analyzed the transport sustainability in four Asia-Paci c cities using the urban transport index. The latter was developed from 10 elementary indicators applying the equal weighting method. ...
... In other words, the majority of the existing approaches use compensatory methods and favor weak sustainability. Few studies [30,32,43] opted for partially compensatory aggregation with limited sustainability. In [6], the authors proposed a non-compensatory composite indicator by favoring strong sustainability. ...
The transport is one of the most important sectors that affect the economic development. However, its sustainability may be disturbed due to the remarkable increase in the number of vehicles in city centers and its bad consequences, hence the importance of assessing the transport system and the performance of its different components. Therefore, several evaluation methods were introduced to help decision-makers assess sustainability and many indicators were developed to track the progress of sustainable transport system. This work provides a literature review about the existing approaches used to assess transport sustainability through composite indicators. It aims at analyzing the trends in the existing literature, identifying gaps in evaluating sustainability and suggesting future research perspectives. A total of 47 studies conducted in the period 2002–2022 are examined. The obtained results show that few researchers focused on freight transportand most researchers considered only traditional sustainability dimensions. In addition, the performed analysis demonstrates that the use of different methods of normalization, weighting and aggregation influences the result given by composite indicator. Finally, a set of recommendations for precise and correct sustainability assessment is presented in order to develop future research.
... An index can also be used to inform policies and strategies to aid equal development distribution among populations [34]. Sustainability plays a large part in the development of any index and is therefore a key consideration throughout the CARTI methodology [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. ...
... On the other hand, transport development index research often takes a large-scale approach, exploring nationwide transportation development [35,40,42,43,45,46,[57][58][59]. Any smaller-scale analyses focus on the development of urban, or inter-urban, transportation systems, rather than rural systems [36,41,60]. Based on the literature review, it is rare to find explicit research that unifies both transport and rural development domains. ...
... However, as with many studies, these factors were determined based on urban scenarios rather than rural. It remains that urban development is dominant in most of the index-based transportation literature [35,36,[41][42][43][44]46,67]. Indexes and indicators across both rural development and transportation development sectors may underrepresent rural areas and their characteristics due to the urban bias behind the development of these indicators, the policymakers and politics behind them, as well as data collection and quality due to rural sparsity. ...
With connected, autonomous and electric vehicles (CAEV) developing rapidly, there is a need to better support their implementation into rural scenarios, where there are numerous transport challenges. The potential safety, efficiency and sustainability benefits of CAEVs could provide significant value for rural communities if implemented correctly. However, transport planner knowledge of CAEVs and their digital and physical infrastructure requirements in the UK is limited and, despite interest, there is little time or resources available to effectively explore rural CAEV implementation potential. This paper therefore describes the methodology behind, and development of, the CAEV Rural Transport Index (CARTI), based on existing literature and a combination of existing and developed indicators. The CARTI’s purpose is to identify the levels of need, capacity and overall potential of different rural areas to support rural CAEV implementation. Application of the CARTI to several case study areas reveals a range of benefits, reviewed through workshops with local transport professionals. Ultimately, the CARTI is identified as a much-needed tool to support the implementation of CAEVs in rural areas, with potential for further development to establish it as a successful and long-term planning tool.
... The CI method does not consider the weightage of each indicator. But, according to Gudmundsson and Regmi (2017), calculating weightage of each indicator is necessary for the construction of an index. Here, the weightage can be determined by statistical analysis or correlation after viewing expert opinion, where important indicators have higher weightage and less important indicators have lower weightage. ...
In Kolkata metropolitan area population growth, built-up land expansion, and infrastructure development shrinkages wetland area and degrades wetland health. Wetland health index was computed using composite-indexing (CI) and fuzzy-AHP (FA) models. Both CI and FA models performed well to assess wetland health where FA outperformed CI. The area under curve value ranges from 0.728 to 0.780 for CI and 0.745 to 0.855 for FA model. During the last two decades, the growth rate of built-up land was 1.86% per year and the shrinkage rate of wetland was 1.56% per year. The spatial coverage of excellent wetland area was decreased from 52.46% to 43.11% over last two decades, but the area under very poor wetlands have increased from 5.55% to 9.62%. Due to wetland health degradation, ecosystem service value was decreased by 23.50% over the last two decades. Wetland health has direct relationship with wetland size, which needs further research.
