The project “ICTs in Support of Monza’s PEBA aims to explore the issue of accessibility for people with reduced mobility through UX methodology, focusing on user experience in Monza. The ...
This study examines the pedestrian accessibility of urban green spaces (UGS) in New York City, focusing on disparities across different boroughs and neighborhoods. Leveraging the H3 hexagonal grid, pedestrian network ...
Recognizing the diversity of urban characteristics, street design, possible routes and user types, the research focuses on assessing the level of walkability in the city of Milan (Italy) according to ...
This research focuses on travel time, commuting patterns and socio demographic factors, by leveraging the US Census LODES data. The approach is twofold, with a trip-focused and time-focused conceptualizations of ...
This research examines the underexplored needs of nighttime communities in accessing urban amenities by foot. Using GIS-based spatiotemporal analysis, a customised version of Transform Transport’s 15-Minute City Score Toolkit, and ...
This article investigates the phenomenon of transport poverty in the City of Milan (Italy), utilizing a comprehensive analysis of socio-demographic data in relation to the Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) ...
This article examines the demand patterns of Zity, a free-floating electric car-sharing company operating in Milan and identifies temporal and spatial dynamics that influence mobility demand to optimize its reallocation ...
In January 2024, Bologna implemented the “Città 30” policy, lowering urban speed limits to 30 km/h to improve safety and livability. A study was conducted to assess the policy’s impact ...
Urban green spaces provide essential ecosystem services that benefit community health. Analyzing tree coverage in urban areas at a detailed scale is crucial. Recently, deep learning models have been developed ...
Milan is working towards promoting cycling as a major mode of transportation. This article is the second part of a comprehensive study on the city’s cyclability. While the first part focused ...
Sharing mobility, carsharing in particular, requires a thorough analytical approach to be fully understood and planned. The aim of this article is to provide an extensive analysis of the relation ...
During the last years, sharing mobility is one of the emerging transport modes, but seldom its planning is entrusted to private operators and not seen as a major vector of ...
Milan aims to make cycling a more prominent form of transportation. This investigation was undertaken to better understand the state of cycling in Milan, analyzing the current and planned cycling ...
The 15min City Score is an urban metric that gives a comprehensive overview of a city’s walkability and can be used to assess the accessibility of cities, neighborhoods and specific ...
The scientific research project “STEP UP – Walkability for Women in Milan” (Grant No. 2022-1643), submitted under the call for proposals “INEQUALITIES RESEARCH – Generating new knowledge to reduce inequalities” ...
Rome aims to increase cycling levels and its cycling infrastructure. The Grande Raccordo Anulare delle Bici (GRAB) is a planned 48.300 km cycle route. This investigation used a multicriteria analysis ...
The research investigated citizens’ travel data in Bologna using the GPS data collected through the Pollicino project. The proposed analysis uncovered soft modes as predominant and concentrated in central zones. ...
Pedestrian thermal comfort is a quantitative and qualitative measure of how comfortable the average pedestrian is when walking, sitting, or standing in an outdoors environment. Factors that influence outdoor thermal ...
This work aimed at evaluating how a temporary school square, implemented in March 2022 in the city of Bologna under the principles of the tactical urbanism approach, impacted on vehicular ...
This research is the first part of a study focusing on New York City’s urban forest infrastructure. In particular, this study examines the city’s street trees and parkland inventory as ...
Thanks to the recent developments in ICT tools for collecting traffic data in the urban environment, there is an ever-growing availability of videos capturing the nerve centers of cities (e.g., ...
Affordable housing is an integral aspect that determines the level of equity, for it to function sustainably, it is important to ensure that these units are placed in high-opportunity neighborhoods, ...
In March 2022, Fondazione Innovazione Urbana and the Municipality of Bologna built a new public space for children in Via Procaccini (Bologna) near a middle school (see Figure 1), using ...
Since the introduction of the Social Logic of Space (Hillier and Hanson, 1984) and the further developments of Space Syntax theories during the following decades (Hillier et al., 1996; Hillier, ...
Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected urban mobility: the social-distancing strategies adopted to cope with the virus transmission pushed the majority of city users into avoiding public transport services in favour ...
