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Dear colleagues and friends, Michela Longo and I are glad to share with you our Special Issue "The Role of Transportation Systems in the Development of More Sustainable Mobility" in the open access journal Sustainability MDPI. The deadline for submission is October 4, 2023. More info about the SI can be found at this link:
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I'm currently writing my master’s thesis at the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with the Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, which evaluates the design and implementation of MaaS (Mobility as a Service).
To design a customer-centric mobility, I created a survey to understand the needs and problems of the users and identify their preferences.
The questionnaire takes only a few minutes of your time. By filling it out and sharing it with friends/acquaintances of your network you will give me a great help and you will contribute shaping the future of mobility!
Here below you can find the link:
We are currently developing an indicator system to foster Sustainable Mobility on a municipal level in the Upper Rhine area.
There are global models on carbon emissions, dynamic traffic data, and comprehensive Indicator systems (eg. SMP 2.0) that require lots of data and resources. There exist complex studies on EV and shared mobility services.
How can a helpful, pragmatic and still validated monitoring system with local or regional impact focus be implemented on an intermediate level, requiring small budgets?
Any ideas, publications, connections?
Experience from outside Germany most welcome!
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Qantas recently claimed a 20% premium that customers are willing to pay on a direct Perth to London flight vs indirect flight, due to 3 to 4 hour saving, and possibly risk of missed connection. That is about $50 USD per hour where the indirect flight is 21 hours, based on an economy class ticket in April 2017.
It is claimed that "how much passengers are willing to pay to save an hour is widely unknown.” Do you have any research or customer surveys that answers this question? My thinking is that for longer flights the premium per hour is less than shorter flights, especially < 5 hour flights. So the % of time added by the indirect flight is just as important as the absolute number. Of course the premium would vary based on business vs leisure routes.
in the context of the just started European H2020 project MOBILITY4EU, I would like to know how many cities in Europe and also elsewhere have developed SUMPs. Is there a dynamic there, do many more cities develop such strategies that European institution want to see more and more developed?
It seems a big issue to find a source for the monitoring of this, crawling in the jungle of European projects.
I found elements in the Eltis project, but does it exist other sources?
In the context of au European project, we are studying societal trends that have an impact on mobility and transport at the horizon 2030.
Based on the emerging consensus among social scientists (Clegg and Baumeler 2010) that it exist a shift towards liquid modernity introduced by Z. Bauman (Bauman 2000). Liquid modernity refers to more flexibility but also to an acceleration of social life identified by post Marxists (Harvey 1990), geographers (Levine 1998) and H. Rosa (Rosa 2003).
Acceleration of social life and more flexibility pushes an expectation that transport systems needs less travel planning, that information is always available.
Levine proposed a measurement of the pace of life based on the three measurements of the speed of pedestrians in streets, the time it takes to buy a stamp in a post-office and the accuracy of public clocks (Levine 1998, 131). These measurements have been criticized but they show a high level of diversity across the planet, linked to cultural differences.
Walking speed of pedestrians is considered as dependent on the size of cities (Bornstein and Bornstein 1976; Bettencourt et al. 2007; Schläpfer et al. 2014). If we follow this rationale, pace of life should increase with the increasing size of cities related to the urbanization trend (by extension through mobility and by intensification).
But beyond these elements, could you suggest sources for evidence and statistics of these ideas of acceleration?
I am looking for theories mentioned about the relationship between labour mobility ( international and domestic labour mobility) and the economic impacts. Please help to provide some related THEORIES and source of DATA your know.
Thank you!
I'm searching a site that show the evolution of socioeconomic data - like income and propriety values - on european cities. I found this site ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database but the informations are not updated.
E-Mobility is clearly overestimated – Why the future still belongs to liquid fuels
E-Mobility technology is commonly seen as the saviour for mobility demands in the future.
However, during the next two or three decades the number of vehicles powered by an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) will not only remain high, but will probably increase in absolute numbers.
Oil as the primary energy source for transportation purposes is limited and it is not environmentally friendly. It is expected that E-Mobility not will be able to substitute the demand for ICE vehicles.
The conclusion is that renewable liquid energies will be needed to ensure future mobility and to provide an environmentally friendly mobility fast. Is PtG and/or PtL the fast-track we need?
Smart City developers are generally technology giants, who sell a portfolio of "Smart City" solutions. The need for these solutions are generally backed by consultancy companies. But again, how do we measure these solutions, or how do we measure the need for this solutions.
Is there anyway in which we can measure the Social impact, of lets say, mobility, parking, healthcare, energy solutions etc..?
This kind of study or framework may help in determining the level of success achieved.
The interest is in discovering what noteworthy part organizations may play in getting at some of these scopes.
The full question: Based on observed market motivations and actions, how are managers establishing a capability to actually realize superior changes for environmentally friendly and sustainable mobility, both in transitioning practically to cleaner fully electric mobility and fashioning a new philosophy sympathetic of such outcomes over time?
Conventional mobility continues to reign, hardly little research has been undertaken to pinpoint the inner influences and perceptions of how organizational management actions come together to create opportunities for change over into real green mobility (i.e., electric).
Environmentally friendly and sustainable mobility provides a means to move from point "A" to point "B" in the cleanest and greenest possible manner. It entails to work on solutions that are environmentally friendly and socially sustainable.
I'm currently looking for any research related to improving the use of public bike sharing systems. Having a system installed in the city I'm looking for scientifically proven measures to increase the use of it. Any idea of real research on that topic?
I'm well aware of European projects like OBIS. But any suggestion is appreciated.
I am looking for inernational examples of online- or paper-pencil-questionnaires regarding the employees' trips to work and back as well as business trips. These questionnaires should be standardised (offering a certain set of questions / variables) and available for any company or institution, interested in surveying the mobility behaviour of it's employees.
The transition to green urban mobility will require vast amounts of finance. However, in times of global financial crisis public finance resources are scarce. Thus, cities will depend on innovative finance and the private sector. But how can local authorities mobilize and leverage private finance?