Publicação
Planning and operation of transport systems in Mediterranean Mid-Size Metropolitan Areas: Lisbon and Homs as a case studies
| Resumo: | Urban sustainability, economic performance and tourist attractiveness require a comprehensive and efficient functioning multimodal transport system. In recent centuries, the importance role of urban transport and its means were not a result of urban growth, since the inception of cities; it has been a major junction of the city. More efficient urban transport would allow cities to ensure better accessibility to the various services. At the same time, they should help reducing the transport externalities such as traffic congestion, road crashes and environmental pollution. In the 1995’s Barcelona Conference, where transport was identified as a priority issue, a broad consensus points out that transport reform should be an integral part of economic adjustment at the national level as well as intergovernmental cooperation at the regional level. The idea of this dissertation inspired by me as a student. Portugal is my first abroad country, I felt it as my second country, as it is a Mediterranean country as well as Syria. At the same time, I felt that my responsibility is to contribute to its development and improvement in all aspects, to have an organized and sustainable transport services, that ensures mobility and basic access to meet the needs of development without affecting the quality of life for subsequent generations. So, it must be safe, healthy, inexpensive and with less impacts regarding pollution and the use of renewable and non-renewable resources, it should meet the needs of the present without affecting or damaging the environmental harmony and the need to achieve a long-term sustainable economy and convenience for society. The objective of this research is to identify some specificities of cities in the Mediterranean region that can somehow explain the existing difficulties they show regarding the efficiency of their transport systems, the growing predominance of car use, the delay to improve active modes of transport, as well as the transport policy reforms, they are trying to implement. The similarities between Lisbon and Homs in this regard were used to better understand the problems that those cities face and what are the strategies to explore in order to reach a more efficient and sustainable transport system. In most of the southern Mediterranean countries transport reforms are now underway but does not have an identity yet comparing with the northern countries. However, I am taking Lisbon’s transport policies and urban mobility management as a case-study, to identify the policies and measures that can be applied in Homs, helping this city to plan more efficiently its transport system. As a result, an interaction exists between transport system and its use, as they influence each other. I’m focused in this dissertation on the user perspective. Methods were used that focus on the people and reveal his thoughts, knowledge, experience and feelings and how the world is going forward. |
|---|---|
| Autores principais: | Murad, Majd |
| Assunto: | Transport planning Transport system Urban policies Transport system operation Urban mobility Mediterranean cities Homs Lisbon |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Urban sustainability, economic performance and tourist attractiveness require a comprehensive and efficient functioning multimodal transport system. In recent centuries, the importance role of urban transport and its means were not a result of urban growth, since the inception of cities; it has been a major junction of the city. More efficient urban transport would allow cities to ensure better accessibility to the various services. At the same time, they should help reducing the transport externalities such as traffic congestion, road crashes and environmental pollution. In the 1995’s Barcelona Conference, where transport was identified as a priority issue, a broad consensus points out that transport reform should be an integral part of economic adjustment at the national level as well as intergovernmental cooperation at the regional level. The idea of this dissertation inspired by me as a student. Portugal is my first abroad country, I felt it as my second country, as it is a Mediterranean country as well as Syria. At the same time, I felt that my responsibility is to contribute to its development and improvement in all aspects, to have an organized and sustainable transport services, that ensures mobility and basic access to meet the needs of development without affecting the quality of life for subsequent generations. So, it must be safe, healthy, inexpensive and with less impacts regarding pollution and the use of renewable and non-renewable resources, it should meet the needs of the present without affecting or damaging the environmental harmony and the need to achieve a long-term sustainable economy and convenience for society. The objective of this research is to identify some specificities of cities in the Mediterranean region that can somehow explain the existing difficulties they show regarding the efficiency of their transport systems, the growing predominance of car use, the delay to improve active modes of transport, as well as the transport policy reforms, they are trying to implement. The similarities between Lisbon and Homs in this regard were used to better understand the problems that those cities face and what are the strategies to explore in order to reach a more efficient and sustainable transport system. In most of the southern Mediterranean countries transport reforms are now underway but does not have an identity yet comparing with the northern countries. However, I am taking Lisbon’s transport policies and urban mobility management as a case-study, to identify the policies and measures that can be applied in Homs, helping this city to plan more efficiently its transport system. As a result, an interaction exists between transport system and its use, as they influence each other. I’m focused in this dissertation on the user perspective. Methods were used that focus on the people and reveal his thoughts, knowledge, experience and feelings and how the world is going forward. |
|---|