Towards Sustainability: Spatial Models Applied to Transport and Land Use
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 7630
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transport and land use interaction; transport and land use interaction models; spatial econometric models; spatial planning; public transport
Interests: spatial planning; urban planning; impacts of transport infrastructures on land use patterns; future mobility and land use planning and policy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The relations between land use and transport are key to achieving more economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable regions and cities. Without land-use planning based on criteria such as compactness, density, and diversity, it will be difficult to achieve mobility practices more oriented towards active and public transport modes that help to reduce severe problems such as congestion and pollution. Transport planning that prioritizes collective and nonmotorized modes also makes urban areas with more compact, dense, and diverse land use patterns more attractive. It is therefore a question of breaking an equilibrium between land use and transport that has proved to be problematic (sprawled cities base on private transport) in favor of a more sustainable one. However, this transition is complex and both decision-makers and citizens are demanding that the policies proposed are supported by strong evidence about their positive effects. In this sense, land use and transport interaction models (LUTI models) and spatial econometric models are especially adapted for the analysis, diagnosis, and evaluation of proposals related to projects and policies that can break this unsustainable equilibrium.
The main purpose of this Special Issue is to stimulate high-quality research about these subjects. Authors are invited to submit papers with a focus on the interaction between land use and transport including the following issues:
- Land use and transport interaction modelling;
- Ex-ante or ex-post evaluation of projects and policies with an impact on transport and/or land uses;
- Impacts of projects and policies on the structure of urban and regional systems;
- Effects of transport and land use interaction on the environment;
- Spatial econometric modelling.
Dr. Rubén Cordera
Assoc. Prof. Soledad Nogués
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Transport and land use interaction
- LUTI models
- Spatial models
- Accessibility and land use
- Influence of land use on transport
- Sustainable mobility and land use patterns
- Future mobility and land use patterns
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