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Walking to public transport: rethinking catchment areas considering topography ...
Pais, Filipe; Sousa, Nuno; Monteiro, João Pedro Medina; Rodrigues, João Coutinho; Jesus, Eduardo NatividadeService, or catchment areas of public transport stops are traditionally assessed using Euclidean or network distances, often neglecting other relevant factors such as topography. This study proposes a refined approach that integrates network-based accessibility with terrain variations and the effect they have on walking time and on the physical effort required for pedestrian movement. Using geographic informati...
Walking and cycling friendliness as proxies to retrofit active transport infras...
Pais, Filipe; Sousa, Nuno; Jesus, Eduardo Natividade; Rodrigues, João CoutinhoActive transport modes, such as walking and cycling, have been promoted by scientific studies and policymakers due to congestion-reduction and health benefits, and low environmental impact. However, adequate infrastructure is necessary for citizens to exercise their choice for those modes. This article presents a case study on the active mode infrastructural condition of a city which, as many others, privileged...
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...
Planning cities for pandemics: review of urban and transport planning lessons f...
Monteiro, João Pedro Medina; Sousa, Nuno; Pais, Filipe; Rodrigues, João Coutinho; Jesus, Eduardo NatividadeFor 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...
A multicriteria methodology for maintenance planning of cycling infrastructure
Pais, Filipe; Monteiro, João Pedro Medina; Sousa, Nuno; Coutinho, João; Jesus, Eduardo NatividadeThe importance of cycling as a sustainable mode has been widely recognized and, recently, its effectiveness in mitigating the spread of infectious diseases has also been under the spotlight. Fostering its use requires developing and deploying decision tools to help authorities assess the performance of their cycle infrastructure for maintenance and improvements. This article presents a multicriteria methodology...
Design of pedestrian network friendliness maps
Sousa, Nuno; Pais, Filipe; Jesus, Eduardo Natividade; Rodrigues, João CoutinhoThis article introduces the concept of pedestrian, or walking friendliness, and presents a methodology for obtaining maps thereof. Walking friendliness is a quality of walking indicator, defined for any given origin in a city, which combines accessibility measures, based on impedance between that origin and destinations, with performance scores for the pedestrian infrastructure linking those origins and destina...
Avaliação multicritério de infraestruturas pedonais: um estudo à escala de uma ...
Pais, Filipe; Sousa, Nuno; Rodrigues, João Coutinho; Jesus, Eduardo NatividadeOs passeios são o suporte urbano do modo de transporte pedonal, um modo importante tanto por si só como pelo facto de praticamente toda a viagem em cidade conter uma componente pedonal. É assim crucial para os decisores municipais avaliar e monitorizar o estado destas infraestruturas. Este trabalho aplica uma metodologia multicritério para avaliação da qualidade dos passeios a um caso de estudo de dimensa...
Avaliação da acessibilidade aos parques urbanos de Coimbra para três modos d...
Pais, Filipe; Sousa, Nuno; Rodrigues, João Coutinho; Jesus, Eduardo NatividadeOs parques urbanos são um dos principais equipamentos de lazer, com impacte benéfico na qualidade de vida dos habitantes das cidades. Nesta pesquisa apresenta-se um estudo de acessibilidade aos parques urbanos da cidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Foi considerado o tipo de entrada nestes espaços: ponto, múltiplos pontos ou poligonal contínuo, e três modos de transporte: pedonal, bicicleta e automóvel. A acessi...
Displacing media: LCD LAB Artistic Residency
Pais, FilipeThis review refers to an artistic residency which took place at LCD LAB - CAAA at Guimarães, in March, exploring a strategy for media art called Media Displacement. The text introduces the strategy very briefly and describes the residency's organization, structure, processses and the results produced.