Urban Mobility Metrics Archives - Transform Transport

15 Minutes City Score Europe Map

transform transport — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:04:33 +0000

Walkability is a fundamental quality of urban life that shapes how we experience and interact with our cities. At its core, it describes how an environment supports walking as a means of moving through neighborhoods, accessing services, and engaging with the urban fabric (Speck, 2013). A walkable city is not merely one where walking is possible, […]

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GOLIA: Governing, Optimising and Leveraging Innovations proActively for shaping future proof holistic mobility system through data-driven and social optimum-led model

transform transport — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:39:08 +0000

The GOLIA project , which kicked off in June 2025, is a three-year Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) Horizon Europe project, coordinated by FIT Consulting and funded by the European Union under the topic, HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-09: Policies and governance shaping the future transport and mobility systems. The overarching goal of GOLIA is to develop an integrated, interdisciplinary […]

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Sustainable Urban Mobility Metrics in the Metropolitan City of Rome

transform transport — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:26:47 +0000

This article presents a research project conducted by Transform Transport in collaboration with Laboratorio Roma050, focusing on sustainable mobility metrics in the Metropolitan City of Roma Capitale. The project leverages advanced methodologies to collect and analyze open urban mobility data and services data. Three core metrics were computed: the 15-Minute City Score (15m CS) for […]

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Travel Times across the U.S. – An Exploration of the Variability of Mobility Patterns

transform transport — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:30:10 +0000

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 commuting data: categorizing the ODs by the built environment characteristics; and implementing Generalized Additive Models fitting a curve simulating the number of trips based on […]

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Free-Flow Carsharing Systems Part 3 – Toward a Vehicle Allocation Model

transform transport — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:32:18 +0000

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 strategy. The findings emphasize the importance of considering specific timeframes for operational activities and highlight the role of residential and working populations as driving factors […]

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Free-Flow Carsharing Systems Part 2 – A Spatio-Temporal Approach

transform transport — Fri, 03 May 2024 07:24:28 +0000

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 between the utilization of carsharing vehicles and urban spatio-temporal patterns, focusing on the analysis of 4 weeks of free-flow carsharing data in the City of […]

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Free-flow Carsharing Systems Part 1 – A General Overview

transform transport — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:05:48 +0000

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 urban mobility. The understanding on how the introduction of sustainable and shared vehicles has an impact on the overall movement pattern of a city, is […]

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15min City Score Toolkit – Urban Walkability Analytics

transform transport — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:38:57 +0000

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 places based on the essential services availability. Nevertheless, the estimation of this metric for a city can be an intense and complex analytical process. In […]

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Spatial Analysis of Citizens’ Travel Data: The Pollicino Project

transform transport — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:10:11 +0000

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. Temporal assessments unveil peak travel times, while clustering reveals unique mobility patterns. Leisure emerges as the leading trip purpose. Notably, results highlighted that pedestrian-friendly areas […]

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Video Analytics for Understanding Pedestrian Mobility Patterns in Public Spaces: The Case of Milan

transform transport — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:37:49 +0000

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., live streaming webcams, CCTV systems, etc.). This enables detailed analyses of public spaces and their users, leading to a deeper understanding of mobility patterns. Gaining […]

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Measuring the Fairness of Transit Accessibility: The Case of Affordable Housing in New York City

transform transport — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:31:00 +0000

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, that provide good proximity and accessibility to essential social determinants. Public transport acts as an equalizing factor for connecting people with opportunities. Therefore, easy access […]

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Deep Learning Video Analytics to Assess VGA Measures in Public Spaces

transform transport — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

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, 2007), the proposed methodologies have been proven effective to analyze the space in his physical configuration. In this regard, the study proposes the application of […]

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Analysing ‘Twitter Conversation’ of London Tube Stations: The Case of the Covid-19 Pandemic

transform transport — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

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 of safe and contactless travel options. To investigate this phenomenon, this research proposes an Urban Informatics approach to understand passengers’ opinions and expressed polarity through […]

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Looking with Machine Eyes: Understanding Patterns in Urban Spaces

transform transport — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:01:39 +0000

The development of new technologies is shaping the growth of cities in many ways. Among these, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), the high-resolution global positioning system (GPS), big data and new building materials and techniques are expected to transform cities’ core functioning elements, affecting all aspects of our lives (Joint Research Centre, […]

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Sensors Data for Unlocking Hidden City Metrics

transform transport — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:19:52 +0000

The recent developments of ICT tools for collecting traffic data in the urban environment have allowed a tremendous increase in the quality and amount of easily accessible data. This enables transport planners and decision makers to analyze, explain, and estimate complex mobility patterns. Thanks to the collaboration with Blimp.ai, the research is based on the […]

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