2024-03-28T14:00:11Zhttps://riubu.ubu.es/oai/requestoai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/69372022-10-17T07:28:27Zcom_10259.4_104com_10259_2604col_10259_6848
Cities at human speed: A favorable way to reduce the pace of modern life. Pull and push measures for change
López García de Leániz, Cristina
Movilidad
Mobility
Ingeniería civil
Transporte
Civil engineering
Transportation
Trabajo presentado en: R-Evolucionando el transporte, XIV Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte (CIT 2021), realizado en modalidad online los días 6, 7 y 8 de julio de 2021, organizado por la Universidad de Burgos
Walking is the wealthiest and fairest, healthiest, safest and strongest, smartest and greenest
form of transport (Government of Scotland, 2014). Since Walking is part of the daily life
of most people, that is why it is often taken for granted.
To achieve a city for pedestrians, urban planners must reflect on how to stop designing
cities with dispersed, discontinuous, and car-centric urban models, because it will be
impossible to reverse this trend of development. Currently, contemporary cities must face
the stress of its population, due to the speed of urban life, traffic congestion, long travel
distances, etc.
This research is underpinned by how pedestrian's scale contributes to better urban
environments and for the welfare of citizens through the development and implementation
of policies and strategies for encouraging walking. To address this issue, it tries to identify
the factors that determine walking, and it explores some existing strategies at three
administrative levels: local, regional, and national. In this regard, it proposes push and pull
measures as the potential to help more people to walk. The city of Pontevedra is selected as
a case study because it is considered a case of success. The results indicate that there is
necessarily a transversal organization of mobility in the administration, adequate
combinations of pull and push measures have shown to have the greatest effect, and
interventions tailored to different parts of the city.
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R-Evolucionando el transporte
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