Sustainable Mobility in Urban Regions: What are the Highest-Priority Needs?

Cities and their outskirts accommodate high concentrations of transportation flows, in terms of passengers and freight, which remain quite distinct in both their scope and frequency: major transit flows, intercity exchanges, daily mobility patterns. This article will primarily focus on day-to-day mobility concerns in France, but the first step of such an analysis entails specifying the investigation boundary: how far does the city exert its influence over daily transportation habits?

Are New Mobility Services Going to Redefine the Urban Landscape?

Transport demand studies have revealed a certain trend towards a declining use of passenger cars in developed countries, especially in Europe. Several factors are contributing to this trend: the general trend for people to live increasingly in cities. There is a direct correlation between the percentage of the population living in conurbations and car density. In urban areas the car appears to be less necessary or indispensable, among other things owing to the configuration of the territory and [...]

Sustainable Mobility: What are the Challenges faced by our Cities and by the World Road Association?

The ecosystem encompassing roads and our mobility patterns is about to be drastically altered due to transformations underway regarding not only road vehicles (connectivity, motor technology, reliance on on-board computing) and digital advances (real-time knowledge of mobility needs, relationship-building applications, algorithmic power), but also drivers’ behavior (the sharing economy, widespread acceptance of digital devices and data-driven systems). New actors have penetrated the market, with [...]

Analysis of Developments in the Infrastructure of Transportation Systems in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires

In 2014, the author of this article and fellow engineer, Olga Vicente, jointly presented a report on the state of transportation system infrastructure in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, which was published in this magazine*. This report was based on data from 2013. It is interesting to assess developments that have occurred in this area in the past five years, and in particular improvements achieved notably through the performance of public works and the adoption of new means and technologies [...]

Governance and Decision-Making Regarding Multi-Modal Planning in Spain

This document provides an overview and description of the development of decision-making bodies in terms of transport infrastructures, and seeks to identify developments for modal cooperation between the four levels of jurisdictional administration – State, region (Autonomous Community), province and city council – against a background of high decentralisation of skills and gradual inter-modal cooperation, and also weak growth in integrated modal organisations.