Elsevier

Procedia Engineering

Volume 21, 2011, Pages 526-533
Procedia Engineering

Patterns of local development as a roadmap towards urban transport sustainability

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Abstract

Urban transport sustainability is a shared challenge nowadays and many were the responses given to it in the very recent years. The paper, amidst the huge quantity of references and data around the subject, intends to face the problem from an original point of view: more and more detailed plans as well as sophisticated technologies are not enough (alone) to make transport system efficient and mobility management sustainable. Authors purpose clustering, training investments and development of organic relationships among local stakeholders as a key-action for the improving of competitiveness and smartness in urban contexts.

Keywords

transport plans
sustainable mobility
information comunication technologies
clusters
training
local stakeholders

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Authors’ contribution: the text refers to the activities of the equipe of territorial planning of CRUIE (Research Centre in Town planning, Infrastructures and Ecology, University of Genoa). Parts written by Ilaria Delponte deal with the general approach of the paper, the description of the two case-histories and the conclusions. Pietro Ugolini wrote the introduction and is responsible of the research projects as a director of CRUIE.