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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
The research was aimed at defining an innovative nature-based approach to effectively tackle vehicle emissions by considering the role of urban green areas, relying on the capacity of trees to ...
The relevance of computer-based pedestrian crowd simulations has become crucial in transport planning considering the unprecedented effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban mobility. However, there is still a lack ...
The 15-minute city idea is founded on a radical approach to urban planning that revaluates the neighbourhood scale and prioritizes accessibility to daily services on the basis of walking and ...
Almost 70 years after Jane Jacobs’ arguments for smaller, mixed-use, connected neighbourhoods were published, the world is beginning to fully grasp the importance of neighbourhood-scale urban planning and actively supported ...
Abstract The spread of e-scooters in urban regions as a form of shared micro-mobility or last-mile mobility has been impressive in the last few years. As an example, between December ...
A professional case study in Torrance, California Introduction In 2016, we were appointed to study mobility dynamics in the city of Torrance, a city of roughly 100,000-inhabitants located in the ...
Proximity, density and diversity: Local centers to support living at neighborhood-scale The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically influenced the way we live and move. Movement within the city has been dramatically ...
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 ...
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 ...
