SUMP for Cities' Sustainable Development

• Other Authors: Burinskienė, Marija (Editor), Ušpalytė-Vitkūnienė, Rasa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; sustainable urban mobility; SUMP; mobility measures; multicriteria decision making methods; MCDM; bus transportation system; urban infrastructure; network growth; Gini coefficient; complex systems; comprehensive traffic calming; active mobility; travel behaviour; quality of life; traffic safety; sustainable urban mobility planning; sustainable urban mobility plan; policy; problematisation; local transport; mobility plan; Sweden; Great Britain; Netherlands; Germany; development; autonomous cars; ITS and C-ITS; public infrastructure; Kendall method; pattern; social network analysis; tourist flow; visualization; Tibet
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In a rapidly changing world, it is necessary to increase the engagement of local authorities and stakeholders to make urban mobility cleaner and more sustainable. The best way is to combine great ideas and innovative measures with political support. This Special Issue consists of six articles analyzing the impact of SUMPs. Innovative measures have been proposed to change urban transport systems towards sustainability: Chinese research has analyzed the tourist flow of Tibet using innovative technologies: mobile phone data, visualizations using GIS, and social networks. Lithuanian authors proposed three autonomous car travel development concepts that should become a conceptual tool in the development of ITS and C-ITS. An English scientific paper is based on a review of local transport policy documents from 13 cities in four countries. Most cities seek to reduce car travel as a proportion of trips. Experience from Slovenia shows that the comprehensive traffic calming approach has positive effects and contributes to achieving sustainable mobility. Korean researchers used the GINI coefficient to evaluate the bus system to identify bus nodes in order of importance. The last article described that multicriteria decision-making methods have been successfully used for assessing the effectiveness of sustainable transport systems, and a universal evaluation model was proposed.