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Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems Management and Public Transport Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2022) | Viewed by 10960

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Gonzalo Fernández-Sánchez

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Infrastructure and Environmental Area, EMT, 28007 Madrid, Spain
Interests: sustainability; urban mobility; project management; civil engineering
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Prof. Rafael Cortes

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Civil Eng. Department, Universidad Europea, 28670, Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Spain
Interests: sustainable mobility; public transport

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Urban mobility and public transport is one of the main challenges that cities have to face in the present and in the near future. It is something which is related with the environment but also with congestion, noise, space, density, which are just some examples of variables to take into account when planning urban mobility and public transport.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to help toward a better understanding of sustainable urban mobility and public transport all around the world from different approaches:

  • Real experiences from practical experiences (case studies, reviews, comparison, practical/empirical examples);
  • The state of knowledge with new approaches and attempts, systems and innovations in the area (e.g., mobility as a service, mass transportation vs. new ways of personal mobility as scooters, vehicle sharing, public bicycle systems, ITC applied to customer experience, and so on);
  • Future trends in mobility patterns in which public transportation. In this way, an analysis of worldwide changes due to COVID-19 and the change of modal split in cities is a challenge for public transportation companies and mobility;
  • Different ways and approaches to financing public transport in a sustainable way: practical experiences and theoretical proposals.

Other, synergic approaches can be accepted in this topic. This Special Issue invites original research papers, reviews, essays, and case studies on these topics based on previous or related issues.

Prof. Gonzalo Fernández-Sánchez
Prof. Rafael Cortes
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainability
  • urban mobility
  • public transport
  • systems management

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Low Emission Zone (LEZ) Expansion in Jakarta: Acceptability and Restriction Preference
by Muhamad Rizki, Muhammad Zudhy Irawan, Puspita Dirgahayani, Prawira Fajarindra Belgiawan and Retno Wihanesta
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12334; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912334 - 28 Sep 2022
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After the Jakarta government enacted a policy to improve air quality in high-priority areas and established Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in the Kota Tua Tourism Area (KTTA), there is now a plan to replicate this LEZ in other locations. However, the current scale [...] Read more.
After the Jakarta government enacted a policy to improve air quality in high-priority areas and established Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in the Kota Tua Tourism Area (KTTA), there is now a plan to replicate this LEZ in other locations. However, the current scale of the LEZ in the KTTA and the ongoing issues with public acceptance, raise the question of how the Jakarta Government effectively replicates this policy in other locations. This study aims to explore the socio-psychological factors that affect acceptability and restriction preference (i.e., type of vehicle and strategies) on LEZ replication in Jakarta. For those purposes, questionnaires were distributed to the commuters in Jakarta, and hierarchical Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Multinomial Logistics Regression (MNL) were used to analyze the data. The support for LEZ expansion to other locations was found to be shaped by the trust of the government, the level of environmental concern, and personal and social norms concerning LEZ implementation. The perception of the form of full-scale restriction (i.e., combinations of the vehicle types to be restricted and/or the TDM strategies) that should be implemented within the LEZ area is associated with higher acceptability and environmental concern. Moreover, younger and wealthier people are among the groups who are more concerned about the effectiveness of LEZ implementation. Full article
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Tandem Design of Bus Priority Based on a Pre-Signal System
by Yutong Sun, Jin Li, Xiaozhong Wei and Yuling Jiao
Sustainability 2021, 13(18), 10109; https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810109 - 9 Sep 2021
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Giving buses priority is an important measure to improve the attractiveness of public transport and to reduce urban traffic congestion. Reducing bus service delays as much as possible will have a positive impact on urban traffic. Based on the pre-signal system, a bus [...] Read more.
Giving buses priority is an important measure to improve the attractiveness of public transport and to reduce urban traffic congestion. Reducing bus service delays as much as possible will have a positive impact on urban traffic. Based on the pre-signal system, a bus at an intersection with a left-turn special phase is optimized by “tandem design”. The design model is applied to the entrance of an intersection to study the process of vehicle arrival and departure at the main signal and pre-signal, and to calculate and analyze the delay changes of buses, straight social vehicles (meaning vehicles other than those required to be open to traffic) and left-turn vehicles before and after the adoption of “tandem design”. The results show that when the vehicle capacity at the intersection is saturated, the delays to buses and the delays of left-turn vehicles will be significantly reduced once the “tandem design” is adopted at the entrance of a cross intersection with a special left-turn phase. However, it has little effect on the delay of straight-on vehicles; with this system, the total delay experienced by straight vehicles will be reduced to one cycle. Full article
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The ‘Sharing Trap’: A Case Study of Societal and Stakeholder Readiness for On-Demand and Autonomous Public Transport in New South Wales, Australia
by Sigma Dolins, Yale Z. Wong and John D. Nelson
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9574; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179574 - 25 Aug 2021
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Focus groups on shared, autonomous vehicles (SAVs) in New South Wales expressed “sharing anxiety”—an intense concern about the prospect of sharing their mobility journey with strangers, without a driver or authority figure present. This presents a significant barrier to the acceptance of SAVs, [...] Read more.
Focus groups on shared, autonomous vehicles (SAVs) in New South Wales expressed “sharing anxiety”—an intense concern about the prospect of sharing their mobility journey with strangers, without a driver or authority figure present. This presents a significant barrier to the acceptance of SAVs, particularly autonomous public and on-demand transport (ODT), which is a major focus for Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW). Given this potential barrier, we interviewed (N = 13) operators, academics, and regulators with TfNSW to assess their role and abilities in overcoming sharing anxiety. However, our findings revealed a relative lack of awareness from experts in the mobility industry about the existence of sharing anxiety in users, suggesting additional barriers to adoption. We make suggestions for policy considerations for stakeholders that could mitigate sharing anxiety: promoting dynamic ridepooling products in commercial services, using tax breaks as incentivization; requiring ODT services and operators in jurisdiction to use a standardized, unified interface for users (“single-app”); shared, on-demand transport services likely need longer incubation/pilot periods in order for the sharing behavior to become culturally established. We conclude with a reflection on how COVID-19 has impacted the development of shared mobility and suggest further exploration in policy implementation. Full article
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Investigating Maturity Requirements to Operate Mobility as a Service: The Rome Case
by Maria Vittoria Corazza and Giordano Carassiti
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8367; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158367 - 27 Jul 2021
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The maturity of a city to operate a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) ecosystem has been often analyzed in the literature. This and the consideration that MaaS is mostly found in areas with long-enforced transit-oriented policies and efficient multimodal supply raise the research [...] Read more.
The maturity of a city to operate a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) ecosystem has been often analyzed in the literature. This and the consideration that MaaS is mostly found in areas with long-enforced transit-oriented policies and efficient multimodal supply raise the research question of whether it would be possible to operate MaaS in urban areas where mobility management is addressed according, on the contrary, to a conservative approach. A field study developed in Rome as a case in point, aimed at analyzing the actual feasibility of local MaaS operations, indicates that limitations are due to the citizens’ low willingness to pay. This is originated by a general underestimation of transit costs and made harsher by the inveterate use of passenger cars as the prevailing modal choice. The paper analyzes the results achieved, collected via a questionnaire, and highlights additional barriers to implement MaaS strictly related to its social acceptance, rather than to its technical viability, as to which the city, instead, is mature. The lesson learnt is that MaaS might be operationally (or technically) feasible even in challenging contexts, like Rome’s, but the prerequisite is to create supporting policies, for which a number of actions are outlined and elaborated, with the research goal to advance knowledge in this field, especially for decision-makers and potential stakeholders who might perceive MaaS as a too-demanding option for the context they operate in. Full article
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