This new regular section looks at emerging issues with a definite pan-European focus and high significance for transport and/or infrastructure research.
Dominic Stead
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The motives of mobility: an infra-urban level analysis. The case of Bordeaux, France. [PDF]
The influence of urban form on travel patterns is of growing interest among researchers. It has been notably argued that high density, mixed land use settlements reduce automobile use and distances travelled, hence energy consumption per capita.
Guillaume POUYANNE (IERSO, IFReDE-GRES)
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Prospects for Transport Research under the European Sixth Framework Programme
The European Commission provides an important source of funding for research and development in many sectors including transport. Recent analysis indicates that the European Commission currently funds almost a quarter of all publicly financed research ...
Dominic Stead
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Cross Sectional Evolution of the US City Size Distribution [PDF]
We report nonparametrically estimated stochastic transition kernels for the evolution of the distribution of US metropolitan area populations, for the period 1900 to 1990.
Henry Overman, Y Ioannides
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Sustainable Urban Mobility: Assessing Different Neighbourhood Models in Greater Cairo Region, Egypt [PDF]
Sustainable urban mobility aims to encourage movement behavior that reduce automobile dependency and induce non-automobile and public mobility. As cities continue to change, planners are facing the challenge of designing urban mobility systems that are
El Zamly, Hassan, Ghonimi, Islam
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Enhancing Urban Livability: Exploring the Impact of on-Demand Shared CCAM Shuttle Buses on City Life
Livable cities involve such quality-of-life factors as transportation, convenience of daily life, education, and a safe and stable built and natural environment.
Raiyn Jamal
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Access to urban opportunities: Mending the urban-rural divide in metropolitan areas [PDF]
Contemporary urban settings can rely on inedited opportunities for everyday mobility. Paradoxically, thanks to infrastructure and digital technologies our territories are more and more connected, while our societies appear to be more divided than ever ...
G. Vecchio
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Study on the Relationship between Tram Stop Location Layout and Intersection Delay Time
[Objective] In order to improve the operating service efficiency and reliability of trams, it is necessary to study the relationship between the layout of tram stop location and the intersection delay time.
ZHOU Weixia +4 more
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Leisure mobility and mobility problems of elderly people in urban, suburban and rural environment: preliminary results from the research project FRAME [PDF]
Ageing is a lifelong process. But currently the attitudes about ageing and the opportunities for older people are changing. The foreseeable demographic development in the next 30 years provides a challenge to analyse and develop for the expected social ...
Kasper, Birgit, Scheiner, Joachim
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RETRACTED: Improvement in Collision Avoidance in Cut-In Maneuvers Using Time-to-Collision Metrics
This paper proposes a new strategy for a collision avoidance system leveraging time-to-collision (TTC) metrics for handling cut-in scenarios, which are particularly challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs).
Jamal Raiyn
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