Marija Burinskienė

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University · Department of Urban Engineering

Sharing mobility solutions changes people’s lives in cities; however, such services are not common in remote areas, where the most widespread transport mode is a privately owned car. The main challenge is that the existing transport system fails to meet the population’s daily travel needs in such regions. Sharing mobility covers environmental issue...

To date, there is no developed and validated way to assess urban smartness. When evaluating smart city mobility systems, different authors distinguish different indicators. After analysing the evaluation indicators of the transport system presented in the scientific articles, the most relevant and influential indicators were selected. This article...

Industrial parks (IPs) are a frequently used regional policy tool to increase economic viability and social equality. Successful functioning of such areas can increase land use efficiency and, by attracting investment, create high added value nationwide. However, the creation of IPs requires significant initial investments in the installation of th...

The development of science and technology parks (STPs) has become a trendy tool for promoting the economy, innovation, and technology for more than 30 years worldwide. However, STPs poses challenges for urban planners seeking a vision of sustainable urban development. These places become an object of attraction for many highly skilled workers who c...

While many cities around the world qualify themselves as “smart cities”, there is no comprehensive way to evaluate to what extent they are “smart”. This article proposes a framework for comparison of the level of “smartness” of the urban mobility systems. The most relevant indicators that have the greatest impact on smart mobility systems were sele...

The article describes the method for estimating transport flow parameters using the two-fluid Herman-Prigogine mathematical model developed considering the proposed method of estimating parameters for the system based on the passive processing of navigation data on the movement of vehicles. The efficiency of the suggested algorithms and mathematica...

An increasing number of recent discussions have focused on the need for designing transport systems in consonance with the importance of the environment, thus promoting investment in the growth of non-motorized transport infrastructure. Under such conditions, the demand for implementing the most effective infrastructure measures has a profoundly po...

The Old Town of Vilnius City is a valuable site included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. One of the most important tasks is to protect the area from noise, pollution, and vibration caused by transport. Currently, over 30,000 vehicles cross the Old Town core daily, most of which do not have a destination in the Old Town, and drivers only use a sh...

One of the strategies for efficient transport service management is to implement advanced technologies for managing urban transport systems. Countries develop and exist under different socio-economic conditions. As a result, there is no universally accepted system of evaluation indicators for the smart mobility system and its infrastructure that ca...

Increased use of e-powered personal mobility vehicles is usually considered to be a positive change, while it is generally agreed that Personal Mobility Vehicles (PMVs) effectively and efficiently reduce the negative environmental impacts of transport and improve quality of life. There has been great technological progress made by all sectors in th...

Industrial parks are one of the most widely used regional policy tools in the world, aimed at promoting investment and economic growth and reducing social exclusion. The rational layout of the parks, taking into account the accessibility of transport infrastructure and the availability of work force, helps to achieve this goal. Otherwise, the creat...

Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans are developed in Europe rapidly. The future initiative is expected will change the image of European cities and will make transport systems efficacious, thus reducing congestion, decreasing air pollution, and offering alternative options for travelling. The impact of the measures being implemented needs to be monito...

Implementation of industrial parks had become a worldwide trend in recent decades to promote economic growth and reducing social differences among the regions. However, worldwide examples show that many poor decisions were made in the planning stage. As a result, we have a lot of inefficiently working, obsolescence and even abandoned parks. The pur...

Urban population is steadily growing worldwide, while the number of people in Eastern Europe is decreasing. These two contradictory trends have outlined the proposal for sustainable solutions to solve civil engineering issues that are aimed at implementing the principles of sustainable development and ensuring a better quality of urban life. When c...

This article focussed on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans of Lithuania cities. These plans started to prepare in 2016 and now the need to assess their technological, economic, environmental and social aspects has emerged. To assess prepared Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans and their efficiency established different assessment systems that identify...

As pedestrian zones are public spaces in urban areas, they are important in terms of meeting people’s needs. However, it is worth noting that attention should be paid not only to the development of the physical infrastructure, but also to a sustainable balance between the socio-economic and environmental aspects. To guide urban planning and managem...

Urban brownfields are found in all parts of the world. They suffer from a negative image and are generally being viewed as problem areas. However, urban brownfields also offer potentials for new uses and for the ecological regeneration of cities. Strategic decision-making has a long term impact on the quality of life, ecological balance and urban s...

This paper compares the methodology and the extent of public value capture in Germany and the Baltic States. Therefore is firstly established a division in five categories to facilitate the discussion who should capture which part of the unearned incrément. Afterwards basic information is given about the population structure and the administrative...

In recent years, on the EU transport initiatives, the EU member states have been creating sustainable urban mobility plans, which is new practice for the majority of the EU cities. Both municipal experts and plan developers suffer from lack of knowledge, experience and confidence in producing the above introduced documents. The article analyses pos...

The paper considers the technological development of a new streets equipment in Vilnius street network. All main transport infrastructure projects in Vilnius city are presented and analyzed with reference to the selected system of transport projects assessment criteria. This article describes the situation and progress of the main streets developme...

Merge junctions are the key elements in the freeway system, as they are likely to function as bottlenecks. Investigations into breakdown occurrence at ramp junctions have demonstrated that when the groups of several vehicles following each other enter the freeway from the ramp, they are expected to create ‘turbulence’ resulting from lane changes, d...

Brownfield land is one of the least exploited resources for urban development in a number of Eastern European countries. Establishing a rational strategy for redeveloping brownfields is an unambiguously complex task that requires considering a number of different economic, social, physical and environmental factors. The strategic decision-making ha...

By capturing value increase, it should be used for specific purposes in the way that would support implementation of infrastructure projects and promote local development. Accordingly, the stakeholders' interests have to be balanced and fair decision-making promoted. The research emphasises on comparative analysis of Estonian, Lat-vian and Lithuani...

Activities aimed at the improvement of instruments of rural development have been undertaken in Europe for many years. Those focusing on the changing the ownership structure, implemented through the traditional process of land consolidation, are gradually replaced by multifunctional activities for rural development, considering elements of environm...

The paper considers the technological development of rapid bus routes in the network of Vilnius public transport. All rapid bus routes of the scheme for Vilnius public transport are presented and analysed with reference to the selected system of criteria. This article describes the situation of the public transport system in Vilnius and shows the i...

Over the last decade, in the cities of Lithuania the number of shopping centres has been increasingly growing, they were provided with large parking lots. The development of shopping centres has formed a new structural and very concentrated urban element the result of activity of which has not been widely studied from the transportation point of vi...

The paper analyzes the criteria of impact that is caused by urban brownfields in cities. Authors have selected 18 most frequently mentioned indicators in the scientific literature and those which were evaluated by Lithuanian experts in previous studies. These indicators are structured by type of impact when applying correlation analysis. Author suc...

Based on the research carried out by foreign scientists, it has been established, that the so-called brown spots represent one of the key factors investors take into account in deciding upon their plans to pursue urban development. The focus of research on the subject of brown spots lies on the uncertainty as regards the indicators, based on which...

The development of suburban residential areas influences the increasingly growing disparities between residential areas of a local municipal network. Real positive indicator values of settlements are usually used by planners to characterise the residential quality of a suburban settlement and to decide on its future development. These values freque...

Although the problem of brownfields in urban territories is successfully limited, it is a negative phenomenon of a sustainable city. Moreover, the number of recently created brownfield territories has become higher than that of the regenerated ones. Such territories reduce the quality of the social and economic setting of a city as well as visually...

Urban development of a modern city should combine and cover most of areas. One of the most important areas that ensure sustainable urban development is the sustainable development of the system of communication. This is one of the most important factors that shapes the city and has a direct influence on urban socio-economic viability, ensuring the...

The article deals with the problems of brownfield in Lithuania. The paper overviews Lithuanian and foreign experience of integrating the introduced areas into the urban framework based on social, economic, ecological and cultural contextuality. The main problem, on Lithuanian scale, is the absence of an official definition of urban brownfield. The...

The growing rate of motorization and the use of passenger cars have a worsening effect on traffic conditions in the streets of Vilnius City. Moreover, adverse urbanisation processes (i.e. migration to suburban areas) make a huge effect on the behaviour of travelling. A deeper analysis of these processes requires large data amounts and techniques fo...

Building standards for energy effectiveness are increasing constantly and market follows these changes by construction of new buildings in accordance with standards and refurbishment of existing housing stock. Comprehensive trends of European construction market show tremendous increase in building retrofit works. It can be predicted that after thi...

With the costs of fossil fuel consistently rising worldwide over the last decade, the development of green technologies has become a major goal in many countries. Therefore the evaluation of wind power projects becomes a very important task. To estimate the value of the technologies based on renewable resources also means taking into consideration...

This paper considers the technological development of an additional network for Vilnius City public transport. Several types of scenarios for the development of Vilnius City tram line were analysed. This paper describes the situation pertaining to Vilnius City transport system as well as the traffic parameters, which are used for a multiple attribu...

Building standards for energy effectiveness are increasing constantly and the market follows these changes by constructing new buildings in accordance with standards and refurbishment of the existing housing stock. Comprehensive trends in European construction market show tremendous increase in building retrofit works. It can be predicted that afte...

Energy efficiency in historical heritage buildings is viewed as a taboo because these buildings usually are protected under law and no energy efficiency measures that would change the appearance of the building are allowed. In this paper we look at the potential of increasing energy efficiency level in historical buildings. Measurements to determin...

ESPONTrain -“Establishment of a transnational ESPON training programme to stimulate interest to ESPON2013 knowledge”- has been a Priority 4 ESPON project aiming at making ESPON2013 knowledge operational in a coordinated and transnational way for practical use, through a specifically designed ESPON Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The Project Con...

Increasing impact of global market economy today accelerates changes in people's living and working conditions, increase migration and significantly exacerbates social problems. The purpose of this study is to disclose the relationship between social justice and social sustainability, to assess the set of social justice-forming factors, to evaluate...

The assessment of development on transport infrastructure is a very complicated process using different methods and complexity substantiating their necessity to the State and the society. Accomplished analysis of the assessment of development projects on transport infrastructure used in foreign countries and Lithuania shows that standardized and un...

The principles of well-known indices of sustainability-the Ecological Footprint (EF) and the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)-have been compared to discuss the essence of attitude, substantial differences and transferability into urban planning. An overview indicates that ideologically the EF is a more appropriate tool for ecological tasks...

Analysis of the assessment of development projects on transport infrastructure shows that standardized methodology do not exist. The assessment of transport infrastructure development is very complicated process using different methods and complexity substantiating their necessity to the society and physical infrastructure. The analysis and evaluat...

The urban development covers the consensus of a wide range of activities and is aimed at equivalent coordination of the impact of economic, social and environmental factors on planning. Due to different attitudes and interests planners and scientists find it rather complicated to come to a common and widely acceptable attitude towards urban develop...

Growth of towns is a result of citizen's social and physical division. Urban planners and scientists have increased the number of links between urban transport and urban development. Public transport has been in the focus of attention as a sustainable and environmentally sensitive transport that brings environmental benefit and possibility to serve...

Leading countries and especially the European Union are concerned with the threat that arises from the worming potential of greenhouse gases. The vast majority of greenhouse gases are produced due to anthropogenic actions, and the urban areas are the places where the biggest pressure on nature is made. According to the second European Common Indica...

The real estate is an integrate part of the economic development of the country. Essential economic changes have direct impact on the real estate market. In recent years that saw the economic crisis there occurs a need to analyse the factors that exert impact on the real estate price. The authors of this article analyse the factors that have impact...

Nowadays, the ecological evaluation of urban development has become compulsory, and a number of environmental indices have been introduced. In the present study, two most common environmental sustainability indices – ecological footprint and environmen-tal sustainability – were applied for measuring the ecological possibilities of urban de-velopmen...

The application of information technologies preconditions the optimisation of performance of transport systems: improvement of the performance quality, safety and efficiency of the overall system, increase in capacity, reduction of the trip duration without high financial investment into construction of the new technical infrastructure. The transpo...

Identifying accessibility is a standard issue of transport analysis, which can be of interest to many socioeconomic applications. In this paper we propose and discuss the accessibility‐based Lithuanian automobile transport system analysis and GIS (geographical information systems) calculation method for searching a potential territory under differe...

At the end of the 20th century most governments of the world started adopting guidelines on the electricity market liberalization, and the liberal electricity market already operates in USA, Scandinavia and some EU Member States. In most cases the deregulated market has lived up to expectations but there were situations when priority was again give...

As a subsystem of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), an Advanced Traveller Information System (ATIS) disseminates real-time traffic information to travellers. To help them with making better decisions on choosing their routes, a strong need to predict traffic congestion and to disseminate the predicted congestion information relating to tr...

Within any organisation, strategic goals focus and direct the efforts of the organisation determine distribution of resources and encourage pursuing the implementation of a future vision. Goal achievement has always been one of the best grounded motivation theories in many sectors applied with regard to the implementation of strategic goals. The ar...

The paper describes the assessment of 3 Vilnius city development scenarios according to transport system parameters multi‐criteria analysis and performing transport system modelling for 2015 and 2025 years. Vilnius city development scenarios such as concentrated development, extensive development and decentralized concentrated development have been...

The mobility need, especially of motorized, has significantly increased in recent decade, the public became more and more dependent on the means of communication. Transport became an inseparable part of the way of life of modern human being which helps to satisfy needs but creates new needs. With undoubted benefit these changes caused the new probl...

Implementation of sustainable development policy is one of the most complicated tasks and challenges faced by the global community. The efforts to move the concept of sustainable development from a theoretical level to a decision‐making level and to link the economic development to environment are followed by a number of problems. Several theories...

Fixing the accessibility is a standard issue of transport analysis, which can be of interest to many socioeconomic applications. In the paper we propose and discuss accessibility and other indicators‐based urban transport system analysis and GIS (geographic information systems) calculation method for indicating problematic transportation zones in V...

„New methodology for sustainable development towards sustainable transportation system" Ukio Technologinis ir Ekonominis Vystymas, 15(1), p. 5-9 First published online: 21 Oct 2010

The quality and supply of transport services closely relate to many environmental aspects and are among the main indicators showing the quality of life in cities. Urban sustainability is particular to each city, and this paper's research focuses on the energy consumption in Vilnius' private transport system and its dependency on land use as well as...