How to design transport service and infrastructure taking into consideration the needs of all the city users? Within the UN’s SDG 11.2-Sustainable Transport for All, our goal is to study how urban mobility should be designed and planned to be more inclusive for women, children, elderly and persons with impaired mobility.
Recognising 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 the unique experiences and needs of different users. This is ... Read More
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” and awarded by Fondazione Cariplo, focuses on the needs and ... Read More
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 patterns through exploiting TomTom Floating Car Data (FCD) from before ... Read More
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 the approach of tactical urban planning and participatory design. The ... Read More
Utilizing GIS and location-based open data, this study examined the level of walkability for women in New York City. As highlighted through a thematic literature review, women experience the city differently than men, since they are more concerned with security ... Read More
Abstract The research is based on an extended spatial analysis executed through the application of GIS and Space Syntax, aiming at assessing the level of walkability for children in the City of Bologna (Italy). The research was conducted in collaboration ... Read More
On May 13th, 2021 Systematica joined a roundtable discussion at the 6th Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico – BISP 2021, the biannual event dedicated to research, activities and practices devoted to public space. Since 2011, BISP has been promoted by major ... Read More
Security for women while walking Advanced urban transport planning activities are shifting towards a focus on pedestrian mobility and walkability (Buhrmann et al., 2019), namely referring to how friendly the urban environment is for walking in terms of service availability, ... Read More
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 most promising transport planning approaches is based on the integration ... Read More
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