Improving the Quality of Walking and Cycling in Cities
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811300906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Glossary
- Executive summary
- Key messages
- Main findings
- Recommendations
- What is active travel?
- The benefits of active travel
- Efficiency-related benefits of active travel
- Environmental benefits of active travel
- Active travel reduces carbon dioxide emissions
- Active travel contributes to enjoyment, life fulfilment and health
- Insufficient physical activity imposes significant burdens on people and society
- Active travel maintains and improves health outcomes
- The health benefits of active travel outweigh its negative impacts
- Accounting for people: The distribution of active travel benefits and disbenefits
- Why improving the quality of walking and cycling is so challenging in many modern cities
- How the car became the norm in cities
- How moto-normativity shapes our view of mobility in cities
- Car blindness: The invisibility of moto-normativity
- Car blinders: The inability to see beyond the car
- How moto-normativity influences transport appraisal
- Car blinders when assessing the need for transport projects
- Car blinders impact which project proposals are appraised
- Car blinders in the selection of appraisal methods
- Car blinders are prominent in standard appraisal methods and their application
- Creating safe and inviting cities to walk and cycle requires addressing broader societal issues
- Understanding how travel decisions are made
- Recognising the potential of other factors beyond infrastructure
- Considering the potential deterrent of fear, violence and stress
- How to re-centre mobility spaces on people
- Focus policies on improving the quality of walking and cycling in cities
- Democratise mobility space to ensure citizens can safely and securely travel in more ways
- Secure and maintain existing levels of active mobility.
- Avoid excessive motorisation
- Reduce car dependence
- Improve and increase the uptake of active mobility
- Incorporate violence reduction as a critical transport policy goal
- Remove car blinders from project appraisal and consider a broader range of alternatives
- Remove moto-normative policies to increase the effectiveness of active mobility policies
- Ensure access to high-quality collective transport to enable better walking and cycling
- Decouple active mobility to focus on the different needs of pedestrians and cyclists
- Tailor active mobility solutions to local contexts
- References
- Annex. List of Roundtable participants.
