Sustainable mobility and walkability The rising demand for transport services and infrastructure linked to urbanization (United Nations, 2014) requires an institutional process to effectively design and plan future cities. This ...
The rising demand of public transport services and infrastructure requires the design of effective and sustainable mobility strategies to improve the quality of life. Following this trend, one of the ...
This article is based on the results of the study Milan sidewalks, in which the width of all the sidewalks of Milan has been mapped and narrow sidewalks were classified ...
Parking structures of the future The implementation of driverless vehicles will play a key role in altering urban mobility and land use structures, as car ownership and parking demand will ...
Predicting the movement patterns of driverless vehicles as a fleet which, as we all would like to imagine it, provides a mobility service with its own characteristics, capacity, usage, patronage, ...
Systematica has appointed Jonelle Hanson as Senior Transportation Consultant, with a focus on developing the transportation planning practice in the newly established New York City office. Jonelle is an experienced ...
Think of an airport and the images that come to mind are planes, polished glass facades, giant chocolate boxes at duty free shops, queues to pass at security control, high-end ...
Vehicle speed is the element that has the major impact on the road character and the way it is used. Lower speeds encourage an urban type of development while increasing ...
EXPO 2015 was a universal exposition hosted by the City of Milan with the theme, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”. The EXPO spanned six months from May to October ...
Arthur is known best for his design process, which begins with a story. Drawing on themes and motifs to inform his designs, Arthur’s approach is rooted in the contextual meaning ...
The introduction of greenery and vegetation requires great coordination among all consultants and designers throughout the different project phases. Vegetation is one of the few elements that is able to ...
E11 is the longest road in the UAE: it connects the entire country crossing six of the seven Emirates, from the Western border with Saudi Arabia to the Northern one ...
Iyad Alsaka joined OMA as a director in 2007 and became partner in 2011. Responsible for OMA’s work in the Middle East and Africa, Iyad has led projects including the ...
Pedestrian Level Of Service (PLOS) is being increasingly used to assess safety and comfort levels across entire cities, providing effective indications on priority of interventions. With the increase of car-dependence, ...
Planning and design of the system of public spaces The design of public spaces, considering the upcoming changes in contemporary mobility, opens up for new mobility paradigms that reveal the ...
Block sizes, junctions spacing and the density of intersections have the greatest impact on the public realm and the pedestrian behavior. Al Wasl Road is a great reference to see ...
Investigations and explorations on major mobility changes in urban mobility We are witnessing the rise of driverless vehicles as result of a fast-paced technological revolution within the automobile sector. This ...
Corse Buenos Aires is the longest retail street in Milan and Europe. This book contains a detailed analysis of its current status and it tackles the benefits of its reconfiguration. ...
Explorations on how to better live retail. The Retail is a component more and more integrated in the local context with repercussions on the global economic system. The recent technological ...
Since the late 1970s, network theories are used to study, understand and plan cities. Very few urban theories succeed in describing our cities in such robust and convincing manner like ...
