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Challenges ahead for sustainable cities: an urban form and transport system review
Medina Monteiro, João Pedro; Sousa, Nuno; Coutinho-Rodrigues, João; Natividade-Jesus, EduardoThis article reviews the critical issues surrounding the development of sustainable urban environments, focusing on the impact of transport and urban form on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The aim is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art on the subject and to unravel what directions the literature suggests for sustainable urban planning. Current research and practices are synthesized,...
Do We Live Where It Is Pleasant? Correlates of Perceived Pleasantness with Soci...
Monteiro, João; Carrilho, Ana Clara; Sousa, Nuno; Oliveira, Leise Kelli de; Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Coutinho-Rodrigues, JoãoLiving in urban areas is the wish of many people. However, with population growth in those areas, quality of life has become a concerning element for achieving sustainable cities. Because quality of life is influenced by the built environment, the state of the latter is a fundamental issue for public policies. This research expands on previous research on the perceived pleasantness of built environments by pres...
Filling in the Spaces: Compactifying Cities towards Accessibility and Active Tr...
Monteiro, João; Para, Marvin; Sousa, Nuno; Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Ostorero, Carlo; Coutinho-Rodrigues, JoãoCompactification of cities, i.e., the opposite of urban sprawl, has been increasingly presented in the literature as a possible solution to reduce the carbon footprint and promote the sustainability of current urban environments. Compact environments have higher concentrations of interaction opportunities, smaller distances to them, and the potential for increased active mode shares, leading to less transport-r...
Planning cities for pandemics: review of urban and transport planning lessons f...
Monteiro, João; Sousa, Nuno; Pais, Filipe; Coutinho-Rodrigues, João; Natividade-Jesus, EduardoFor the past few years, the world has been facing one of the worst pandemics of modern times. The COVID-19 outbreak joined a long list of infectious diseases that turned pandemic, and it will most likely leave scars and change how humans live, plan and manage urban space and its infrastructures. Many fields of science were called into action to mitigate the impacts of this pandemic, including spatial and transp...
The Potential Impact of Cycling on Urban Transport Energy and Modal Share: A GI...
Monteiro, João; Sousa, Nuno; Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Coutinho-Rodrigues, JoãoThis article presents a methodology to estimate the maximum potential impact of a wellbuilt and conserved cycling infrastructure, measured as modal share for accessibility trips, as well as the associated transport energy that can be saved in those trips. The methodology uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to estimate active trip probabilities, from which the output variables can be obtained. It was appli...
The impact of geometric and land use elements on the perceived pleasantness of ...
Sousa, Nuno; Monteiro, João; Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Coutinho-Rodrigues, JoãoThis article presents a model to estimate the impact of geometric and land use elements on citizens’ perception of urban layout pleasantness. An ordinal regression cumulative link mixed model with those elements as regressors is proposed and calibrated using data from an online survey. Results show that landscape building height and density of green areas are the factors that most impact the perception of pleas...
Benchmarking City Layouts—A Methodological Approach and an Accessibility Compar...
Monteiro, João; Sousa, Nuno; Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Coutinho-Rodrigues, JoãoThis article presents a comparative accessibility study between a real city and its redraft as a Garden City. The benchmarking methodology involves defining and evaluating a location-based accessibility indicator in a GIS environment for the city of Coimbra, Portugal, and for the same city laid out as a Garden City, with the same number of inhabitants, jobs, and similar number of urban facilities. The results a...
Quest for Sustainability: Life-Cycle Emissions Assessment of Electric Vehicles ...
Almeida, Arminda; Sousa, Nuno; Coutinho-Rodrigues, JoãoThe number of battery electric vehicle models available in the market has been increasing, as well as their battery capacity, and these trends are likely to continue in the future as sustainable transportation goals rise in importance, supported by advances in battery chemistry and technology. Given the rapid pace of these advances, the impact of new chemistries, e.g., lithium-manganese rich cathode materials a...
A Case Study Driven Integrated Methodology to Support Sustainable Urban Regener...
Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Almeida, Arminda; Sousa, Nuno; Coutinho-Rodrigues, JoãoUrban regeneration involves the integrated redevelopment of urban deprived areas, covering physical, socio-economic and environmental aspects of cities, and it is concerned with interventions on early/inner-ring suburbs and historic centers, which are under pressure from population growth and sustainable development policies. The planning and management of urban regeneration interventions usually depend on the ...
Bike-Index – a cycling accessibility index using GIS environment programming
Sousa, Nuno; Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Coutinho-Rodrigues, JoãoA cycling accessibility index – Bike-Index – is presented, based on the metabolic effort of the cyclist as measure of impedance between origins and destinations, and the limitations imposed by that effort. Adequate to study cycling accessibility in hilly cities, the Bike-Index requires a Geographical Information System and script programming in that environment. The calculation methodology is presented and appl...