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Anabela Ribeiro

Town Planning and Sustainable Mobility

Sustainable Town Planning and Mobility

• Sustainable Town Planning

– Considering the place

– Serving the population

– Giving economic impulse

II Conferência PRU - Europa 2020. UA, Aveiro, 5 de Julho de 2013 - Anabela Ribeiro – DEC/FCTUC

Town Planning and Sustainable Mobility - Sustainable Town Planning and Mobility

• Sustainable mobility is

– a determinant factor in a sustainable urban development. Consequently, the growing

dependence on private vehicles and the resulting

traffic congestion problems become bottlenecks

on the cities functional systems and act negatively

in its citizen’s life quality.

– a fundamental step to promote the global urban environment quality also acting as an incentive for the economic growth.




The use of public space for the same group of people while using a car, a bus, or a bicycle

The relation between urban space and transport


Sustainability

Environment

Natural resources

Environmentalmanagement

Population behavior- recycling

Economy

Profit

Cost savings

Economic growth

R&D

Society

Standards of living

Definition ofCommunity

Equal opportunities

Environment-economy

• Energy efficiency and

mobility

• Subsidies or incentives

for the use of natural

resources

Society-environment

• Social justice

• Basic needs resources

in each house / home

• Sense of place as part

of the overall

Economy - Society

• Business ethics

• Trade fair

• Rights of workers

• These concepts must be present in an integrated strategy

(Sustainable Urban Development and Sustainable Mobility)

• New settlements must be planned thinking about mobility

• Mobility issues are central in urban rehabilitation and realm

projects.



• European guidelines concerning the promotion of sustainable spatial development and mobility :

– The definition of a spatial development strategy that is both able to reduce the need to daily commute by car and to supply other transport alternatives (Supply and Demand);

– The promotion of connected public transport systems and the promotion of the non-pollutant transport modes (cycling and walking; electric vehicles) and networks;

– The promotion of driver’s reeducation together with the promotion of the citizens basic needs and rights for mobility.





Increasing

awareness

• The car is a part of all the solutions


Cambridge Maastricht


• From strategy to practice

– The effectiveness of these strategies implies a coordinated

board of policies and actions, a strategic vision of the

entire system and a tight cooperation between

institutions.

– In the core of this integrated vision, two issues play a key

role:

• transport multimodality and transport inter-modality.

Keys to achieve the objectives



• From strategy to practice

• Three fields of action must be consider:

– Transport Systems Planning

– Land Planning

– Mobility Management



• Transport systems– Hierarchy – activities functions of urban space

– Restrictions to private car in central areas / implementing expensive parking

– P&R systems + public transport systems

– Bus Corridors, information, tickets, interfaces quality

– Alternative sources of energy

– Pedestrian/cycling networks

– Lanes, urban green spaces, crosswalks, multimodal interfaces/ ….and supporting services.

– All these issues are clearly integrated with town planning issues



• Land Planning– Compact cities

– Multinucleated cities

– High-density urbanization

– Urban areas of mixed use

– Facilities location

– Transit Oriented Development

More favorable to sustainable mobility actions



• Mobility management– Information and awareness campaigns

– Stakeholders participation in a coordinated set of campaigns and shared actions

– Mobility plans for facilities and services

– Benchmarking – best practices



• The concept of sustainable urban mobility must

be correctly transmitted to the stakeholders

involved and therefore must clearly define

interrelated actions in the following areas:

– Road hierarchy

– Crossings and intersections treatment

– Parking supply and management

– Public transport

– Pedestrian and cycling networks

– Modal interface




Municipality bureau - Planning

Central Government FundingPlanningBuilding

Public transport operators Other entities Civil society

Future Vision

Municipality bureau - Building



• Aveiro, four examples of different projects

that did not account for the involvement off

all the stakeholders and the population, and

did not include, in the desirable way,

• Urban planning issues - Mobility issues

(and therefore failed):

– Alboi neighborhood

– Pedestrian bridge

– Parking

– Bugas – Bike sharing system



Protests, failure:• Alboi neighborhood – The residents needs, the historical and

cultural heritage not considered.– Done!

• Pedestrian bridge – The city, the image, cultural vision of the city not considered.

– Stopped !

• Parking – the excess of supply near the center – lack of a scientific justification, the idea that it was mainly a business.

– Stopped!

• Bugas – Lack of infrastructure and bad connected

– Not a full working system as initially desired



• What do we want for the future?

1st step:

Building a vision, integrating

Urban planning and mobility

with all the stakeholders

Involved, now and for the

future.

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Anabela Ribeiro

Town Planning and Sustainable Mobility

Sustainable Town Planning and Mobility

12.2.11. #2 anabela_ribeiro

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