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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: https://lnkd.in/dDiH8muX
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Transportation systems play a critical role in the development of more sustainable mobility. Sustainable mobility is a concept that refers to the provision of safe, affordable, and accessible transportation services that minimize negative environmental impacts, reduce energy consumption, and promote social equity.
One way transportation systems can promote sustainable mobility is by providing more efficient and affordable public transportation options, such as buses, trains, and light rail. By reducing the number of single-occupancy vehicles on the road, public transportation systems can help to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, public transportation can provide affordable and accessible mobility options for low-income and underserved communities.
Another way transportation systems can promote sustainable mobility is by encouraging alternative modes of transportation, such as walking, cycling, and carpooling. This can be accomplished through the provision of safe and accessible pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, as well as the implementation of policies that incentivize carpooling and other forms of shared mobility.
In addition to these strategies, transportation systems can also promote sustainable mobility by adopting new technologies and alternative fuels. Electric and hybrid vehicles, for example, can help to reduce the emissions associated with transportation, while autonomous vehicles and mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) platforms can improve the efficiency and accessibility of transportation systems.
Overall, the role of transportation systems in the development of more sustainable mobility is critical. By promoting more efficient, affordable, and accessible transportation options, transportation systems can help to reduce negative environmental impacts, improve social equity, and support economic development.
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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:
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Dear Mr. Manenti!
I am a researcher from Finland, and my country of origin is Hungary. I submitted my answers: have visited Italy many times before. Your research is a very important one. Hope YOU the best! Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
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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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Dr Hofmann and others:
This question is more important than I imagine it seems, as it gets to the heart of what we believe is valid research and data, and how we expect to understand our evolving world.
I'm a strong believer in direct research, conducted in the field. The most sustainable mode of transportation is walking (not always feasible or efficient but certainly the most sustainable, with the lowest carbon footprint).
Greatly increasing the amount of walking humans do in urban places (this includes suburbs) will move us towards sustainability. To increase the amount of walking we do, we must have safer walking environments. Safety is palpable and we must develop more cost effective ways to improve pedestrian safety. When we do this, we will have the 'walkable' environments we work so hard to achieve.
Safety is not difficult to measure - crashes/collisions (between peds and bikes/motor transport/rail), injuries, and deaths. Walking humans are easy to count. Together, we will find that these are metrics we can engage communities around the world to measure. School children, low-income communities with few resources, and community activists can mobilize simultaneously to create a worldwide movement towards pedestrian safety.
I'm currently working on an engagement model that hopes to encourage data collection of this nature around the world, focusing on low-cost pedestrian safety measures. (I'm currently in the process of completing my dissertation and will launch this project in about one year.)
Thank you for your question and I hope this stimulates some discussion!
Regards,
Andrea Garfinkel-Castro
City & Metropolitan Planning Department
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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You are working in the field of algae, biofuels, genetics, or environment? or you are especially interested in these areas? Please give us your opinion by completing this brief survey (ca. 10 min). The EU project, Photofuel - Biocatalytic solar fuels for sustainable mobility in Europe, thanks your support!
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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.
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Ted, it is early days but QF has just announced PER LHR non stop, a flight of 17 hours. The one way fare for the opening day (24 March) is $2535 AUD while an indirect flight codeshare with Emirates is $2088, pretty much a 20% premium that was quoted earlier. (Being for fully flexible fares)  Of course that was just a one off sample, and given the huge PR for this flight it is no wonder all the deep discount tickets are sold out.  If you search on https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=PER;t=LHR;d=2018-03-24;r=2018-03-28;tt=o, oneworld partner Qatar flies the same route for less than $1000 AUD (discount economy), at just over 19 hours.  Qatar gets in at 12 am but QF at 5am, so it is also about how you value being in London first thing in the morning, in case you have a meeting or conference to go to. However SQ does the same flight with a 555am arrival and a similar flight time and price as Qatar.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4450120/Tickets-London-2270-Qantas-new-route-Perth.html?ito=social-facebook
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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?
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At least few Lithuanian municipalities (Klaipeda, Kaunas, Palanga and other) working now on SUMPs and they will be ready in about 4-5 months.
Some other municipalities have new SUMPs: for example Utena
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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? 
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 Dear Benjamin,
your panorama of literature on liquid modernity is interesting but I can't find in it my answer of a practical indicator of this fluidity. What measurement would tell about this movement? You mention activity surveys, do you have sources of (ideally European) activity surveys with time series? In this vein the analysis I have found express the idea that women professional activities tend to grow and domestic load of activities remain imbalanced with men not contributing as much as women, which provokes or accentuates tensions.
Alain
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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!
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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.
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Thank you, Mr Toumi Riad!
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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?
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Thanks to José, Mario and Moritz for their answers and sorry for my late reaction. Do you know the company Sunfire? They increased the efficiency on the way from e-Power to liquids up to 70%! They say, the production costs of one liter of PtL-Diesel would be around 1 €. That already reaches the costs, consumers would accept. The only problem seems to be taxes! Yes, the cost for 1 liter of Diesel (around 35 Euro-cents) is much lower, but oil is limited and the costs of environmental damages are not included!!
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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.
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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? 
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As I mentioned previously. The logic and practically preferred step forward are those: 1) identify required management requirements from as many as possible parties;2) collect available information; 3) try to compromise comprehensive analysis of collaborators including model experts; than 4) insert economical aspects of management implementation and cost\benefit analysis. Do not forget to keep in touch with the public.
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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).
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Hi Eric,
You could find lot's of infomation about the policy for emobility in Germany on the link:
From this side you can find additional links. Unfortunately most of them in German.
Best regards,
Georg
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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.
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One important point is the measure of urban sprawl. Sprawled urban areas reflect in more mobility at all. Studies in urban areas aournd the world have found more CO2 emissions when urbanization tends to be more sprawled.
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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.
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Take a look at this selection of articles on cycling, from Taylor & Francis (free access until 30th June 2014). Hope you could find some useful inspirations.
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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.
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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?
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to have private sector invest on green urban mobility you have to make their investment worthwhile...
-he have to be positive in terms of brand image (so he will divert a part of his marketing budget to the green mobility project, if he can manage to acquire some positive visibility from it (like his logo on all the bike/car/stations/etc)
-he also can invest if public power grant him something worthy, special autorisation , attached contract, tax incentive, etc....
-and at last you can use Sponsorship to gather fund, but i doubt that this can be a serious part of the project funding