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Julià Cabrerizo Sinca, Magin Campos Cacheda, Fernando Perez Diez
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The main motivation of the authors of this article is to establish a rigorous definition of the potential capacity that a motor vehicle driver has to avoid a collision against a pedestrian. Henceforth we will call this capacity avoidability. To calculate...
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Fernando Perez Diez, Magin Campos Cacheda, Julià Cabrerizo Sinca
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Transport demand and private motor vehicle ownership (cars and motorcycles) are generally related to the socio-economic development, increasing urbanization, public policies and rising per capita income. Private motor vehicle ownership varies between cou...
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Wei-Shiuen Ng, Lee Schipper, Yang Chen
This paper examines two major emerging constraints on transport in fast-growing Chinese urban cities: oil supply and urban infrastructure. The research considers automobile technology, alternative fuels, and mobility choices, as well as policy measures t...
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Tao Chen, Haixiao Pan, Yanbo Ge
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As a result of rapid urbanization and motorization in China, numerous mega-cities have emerged, and large numbers of people live and work in the city centers. Consequently, developing a public transport-oriented urban structure and promoting sustainable ...
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Igor Pugachev, Yrii Kulikov, Gennadii Markelov, Nikolai Sheshera
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The paper describes the analysis of accidents retrospection and motorization of Russia since the beginning of the third millennium in a graphic form of time sequences, according to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) data, which reveal...
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Yang Wang, Andres Monzon
Pág. 100 - 107
The economic and financial crisis has been impacting European countries since 2008 at different degrees. This paper aims to find out if the statistical analysis of land use and mobility can help to answer the question of what happens during economic cris...
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Manuel Bueno Aguado, Félix Escolano Sánchez and Eugenio Sanz Pérez
Movement prediction based on semi-empirical models needs constant updated since construction procedures and motorization are improving quickly. This paper succeeds in providing insight on the uncertainty and accuracy of well-known mathematical models use...
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Teppei Kato, Kenetsu Uchida, Kazuki Tanada
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Recently, number of bus users decreases by some reasons in Japan, e.g., the progress of motorization, depopulation and so on. Under such situation, local government may subsidize a bus company, which operates in the red, for sustaining public transportat...
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Yuha Huvarinen, Elena Svatkova, Elena Oleshchenko, Svetlana Pushchina
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The article shows that observance of automobile roads design and construction standards does not guarantee safety of traffic. The focus is put on the weakest component of the traffic system ? ?a person? in the context of growing motorization and psycholo...
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Yuri Ichkitidze, Askar Sarygulov, Laslo Ungvari
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The article investigates the correlation between the factors of enhancing traffic safety on highways and parameters of the economic growth in Russia and in countries with transition economy; such correlation does not always lead to traffic safety enhance...
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Keiko Hirota, Shogo Sakamoto, Satoshi Shibuya and Shigeru Kashima
The increase of health effects caused by air pollution seems to be a growing concern in Asian cities with increasing motorization. This paper discusses methods of estimating the health effects of air pollution in large Asian cities. Due to the absence of...
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Jacek Oskarbski, Lucyna Guminska, Michal Miszewski, Izabela Oskarbska
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Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland with a population of about 250,000. It faces a growing motorization rate that needs to be addressed. Car ownership in Gdynia now exceeds 500 vehicles per 1000 residents. Travel by public transport ...
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Keiko Hirota
Asian countries are facing major air pollution problems due to rapid economic growth, urbanization and motorization. Mortality and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution are believed to be endemic in major cities of these countries. Regulations and...
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Wendy Tao, Shomik Mehndiratta, Elizabeth Deakin
This study focuses on how street design and land uses influence pedestrian behavior in a medium-sized Chinese city, Fushun. In cities throughout China, the change from workplace-managed and assigned housing to market housing has had profound effects o...
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Roberto Ghidini
ÍndiceIntroducciónHipótesisCiudades orientadas al transporte públicoConceptos básicosNuevo modelo urbano de Curitiba. El plan preliminar de 1965El centro de la ciudadNuevos usos del suelo. Los ejes estructuralesEl sistema de transporte urbano completa el...
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Yi Zhu, Wanchen Diao and Hu Zhao
Decades ago, bicycles used to play an important role in urban transportation in Chinese cities, but they have been gradually replaced by private cars, metro, buses, and some other modes, owning to the fast-growing mobility demand as a result of urban exp...
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Piotr Gorzelanczyk and Henryk Tylicki
With the rapid increase in the number of vehicles on the road, traffic accidents have become a rapidly growing threat, causing the loss of human life and economic assets. The reason for this is the rapid growth of the human population and the development...
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Irina Makarova, Vadim Mavrin, Damir Sadreev, Polina Buyvol, Aleksey Boyko and Eduard Belyaev
Urbanization, which causes the need for population mobility, leads to an increase in motorization and related problems: the organization of parking spaces in cities, both near work places and recreational spaces, and not far from residential locations. T...
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Cristian Tosa, Andrei Mitrea, Hitomi Sato, Tomio Miwa, Takayuki Morikawa
This paper concentrates explicitly on examining the structural and functional transformations occurring within the metropolitan area of Bucharest, resulting from sustained economic growth during the past quarter century, by conducting a time analysis, sp...
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Luis A. Guzman, Ana M. Gomez, Carlos Rivera
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The development of integrated techniques to evaluate long-term urban trends is a top priority in terms of creating a more sustainable society. In order to take a step forward from traditional peak-hour models, the purpose of this paper is to develop a tr...
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