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- Title
A sustainable approach for planning of urban pedestrian routes and footpaths in a pandemic scenario. Evidence from Italian cities.
- Authors
Cirianni, Francis M. M.; Comi, Antoni; Luongo, Angelo S.
- Abstract
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced national and local governments to reconsider the relation between mobility, urban space, and public health, in order to ensure physical distancing while meeting the travel needs of inhabitants. Limitations associated with the perceived risk of infection influenced significantly travel behaviours, pushing a modal repositioning in demand to active mobility (walking, cycling, and use of micro-mobility). On the other hand, the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on mobility during the COVID outbreak are mostly directed at dedicating more urban space to cyclists and pedestrians, especially in densely populated urban areas, with the intended aim of avoiding crowding on public transport, or the use of private cars as an alternative. The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO, 2020) went in the same direction. In the given conditions, walking became predominant for a sustainable mobility scenario, and structural measures (as widening of pathways) or regulatory measures (as the regulation of pedestrian flows) can be adopted withing the given strategy. Current pedestrian infrastructural offer is severely limited in functional terms by urban planning and development, therefore measures oriented to enhance non-motorized mobility require firstly the development and planning of new public spaces and infrastructures for pedestrian mobility within the urban layout. Policy makers and town planners need to rethink urban spaces and mobility in a pedestrian perspective. A methodology for the classification of pathways, by capacity and level of service, is presented, which can be used to verify pedestrian mobility demand for specific measures, strategies, and policies.
- Subjects
PEDESTRIANS; WORLD Health Organization; URBAN planning; URBAN transportation; COVID-19 pandemic; URBAN growth; PUBLIC transit
- Publication
TeMA: Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente, 2022, Vol 15, Issue 1, p125
- ISSN
1970-9889
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6092/1970-9870/8629