Last year Luxembourg became the first country to introduce universal fare-free public transport (FFPT) for all modes at a national level. However, FFPT is not a new policy instrument and many...
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Generating demand-responsive collective bus routes from social media data analysis
24 Mar 2021Young people living on the outskirts of Barcelona in Spain suffer from a lack of reliable bus services. This prevents many of them from accessing educational and recreational activities, such as...
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Impact on urban mobility as a result of the pandemic
11 Feb 2021Coronavirus (COVID-19) became an international crisis at the beginning of March 2020. Since then, its impact on urban mobility has been closely monitored.
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Oslo – Promoting Active Transport Modes
05 Feb 2021As with many cities in recent decades, the Norwegian capital, Oslo, was increasingly giving up urban space to cars. Since the 1960s, massive road building schemes were undertaken to accommodate...
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Achieving balance: Urban mobility measures which support sustainability and accessibility
18 Jan 2021Incorporating sustainability and accessibility in urban transport planning has been recognised as increasingly important in recent years. Indeed, introducing measures that support sustainability...
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The redesign of the Jahnplatz square in Bielefeld: using a pilot phase to demonstrate the viability of changes to an urban traffic node
08 Dec 2020As with many cities in Europe, Bielefeld in Germany has high daily volumes of traffic. Its current mobility strategy aims to reduce the share of motorised individual trips (such as by cars,...
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Giving people what they want: Rome’s SUMP and its participatory co-creation process
13 Nov 2020Following a two-year participatory and iterative process that involved different stakeholders (residents, civil society groups and neighbourhood representatives), the city of Rome approved its...
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St. John's Temporary School Street Opening (Southampton, UK)
29 Oct 2020St. Johns Temporary School Street Opening in Southampton was implemented with the aim of making a school street more child-friendly.
The street was first...
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Geofencing: a new tool to make urban transport safer and more sustainable?
12 Oct 2020Geofencing applications are starting to appear on city streets, with the electric mode of hybrid vehicles being turned on in specific city areas or for enforcing speed limits (e.g. in the vicinity...
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