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Urban mobility
Urban mobility planning in Italy is carried out mainly by designing local transport plans (whose acronyms are P.U.M., P.G.T.U. etc.) aimed at making urban mobility compatible and sustainable in respect to life quality.
Over the years, Tages has developed a specific research area dealing with this strategic component of urban planning, with the aim of assessing the relations between town design and accessibility regulations.
1. Integrated planning of policies for the increase of transportation sustainability:
- Design and updating of city centre accessibility;
- Design and updating of parking planning (i.e. park and ride systems);
- Design and updating of the public transport network;
- Analysis of sustainable and energy efficient mobility systems;
- Design of bike lanes networks and bike sharing facilities to integrate diffuseness, safety and accessibility;
- Design and updating of pricing policies;
- Design of systems for the management of transport demand (infomobility, traffic calming, car sharing, Demand Responsive Transit etc.).
2. Analysis of mobility through the assessment of interactions between the components of transport network (private and public vehicle flows, bike and pedestrian flows, freight flows etc.) and economy (new malls or industrial districts, new residential districts).
3. Large scale (four-steps models) or medium scale transport network modeling for the assessment of the impact of road network changes or placement of new activities.
4. Transport demand forecasting through Stated or Revealed Preference surveys; design of Discrete Choice Models, either classic (Multinomial Logit, Nested Logit) or advanced (Crossed Nested, Mixed Logit), to estimate transport demand for new urban transport systems such as BRT, People Mover, Tramways etc.) or to assess modal split.
5. Dynamic micro-simulations for the assessment of the network's Level of Service and gas emissions.
6. Analysis of parking system and parking fares.
7. 3D modeling of new town districts, renovated neighborhoods, new infrastructures.