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Mobility Challenges in Emerging Cities
Many countries around the world are experiencing a dramatic growth in urban areas, both in terms of economic development and as physical expansion of housing areas, industries and transport systems. The development of the new emerging cities is often accompanied by a rapid motorisation. At the same time, many inhabitants are still dependent of non-motorised modes of transportation, a fact that creates new mobility challenges for decision-makers on all levels in the society. The FUT theme Mobility Challenges in Emerging Cities addresses these challenges, and covers research with a clear goal to improve the conditions for a sustainable, urban mobility. Certain attention is devoted to the task on how to provide access to affordable and safe transports in low-income areas, and at the same time lower negative environmental impacts.
Key words
Municipalities, low-income areas, motorisation, walking, pedestrian transports, bicycle transports, non-motorised transports, public transports
Municipalities, low-income areas, motorisation, walking, pedestrian transports, bicycle transports, non-motorised transports, public transports
Research covered by the theme typically includes:
Institutional development & policy approaches
Local municipality development
Infrastructure development in low-income areas
Planning concepts and policy briefs for emerging cities
Infrastructure planning
NMT infrastructure improvement & development
Integration of NMT development within national plans and strategies
Analysis of non-motorised transports
NMT travel analysis
Pedestrian behaviour analysis
Assessment of freight movement by NMT
The role of public transports
Challenges for PT companies in emerging cities
Paratransit transports
Research organisations involved in this theme:
Publications within this theme:
- Transport modeling for Nairobi metropolitan area
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Final Report - University/City Partnerships: Creating Policy Networks for Urban Transformation in Nairobi
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Traffic Impacts on PM2.5 Air Quality in Nairobi, Kenya
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Towards a Political Economy of Transportation Policy and Practice in Nairobi
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Paper - The Social Dimensions of Urban Travel in Nairobi, Kenya: Analysis, Insights, and Opportunities
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Policy Networks for Sustainable Transport and Land-use in Nairobi: Opportunities for Change
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Paper - Globalization and the Urban Studio: Evaluating an Inter-University Studio Collaboration in Nairobi
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Economic Fall-Out of Failing Urban Transport: An Institutional Analysis
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Book chapter - Transport and City Development: Understanding the Fundamentals
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Research organisation:
CoE London, UK
Year: 2011
Type: Book chapter - Improving Population Health in a Rapidly Urbanizing World
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2010
Type: Book chapter - The Organization and Future of the Matatu Industry in Nairobi, Kenya
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2010
Type: Research article - Nairobi Metropolitan Region: Networking the Sustainable African Metropolis: Issues, Visions, Concepts
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2010
Type: Report - Urban particulate matter, roadway emissions, sub-Saharan, Nairobi
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2010
Type: Research article - Regulating minibus-taxis: A critical review of progress and a possible way forward
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Research organisation:
CoE Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2010
Type: Conference proceedings - In search of a framework for institutional coordination in the planning for public transport in sub-Saharan cities
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Research organisation:
Department of Urban Planning and Environment, Royal Instutue of Technology, Stockholm
Year: 2009
Type: Final Report - Land, urban form and the ecological footprint of transport
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Research organisation:
ITC/University of Twente, CEPT University
Year: 2009
Type: Final Report - Reinventing Healthy and Sustainable Communities: Reconnecting Public Health and Urban Planning
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2009
Type: Book chapter - Analysis of non-motorised travel conditions on the Jogoo road corridor in Nairobi
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Research organisation:
CoE Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2009
Type: Paper - A University Partnership for Metropolitan Planning: Ruiru Kenya
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2008
Type: Book chapter - Residential location and travel in Hangzhou metropolitan area
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Research organisation:
Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research
Year: 2007
Type: Final Report - A handbook of socio-economic impact assessment of future urban transport projects
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2007
Type: Final Report - Impacts of roadway emissions on urban particulate matter concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa: new evidence from Nairobi, Kenya
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2007
Type: Research article - The phenomenology of being a female pedestrian in an African and an Asian city: A qualitative investigation
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2006
Type: Research article - A Gendered Perspective of the Shelter‐Transport‐Livelihood Link: The Case of Poor Women in Delhi
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2006
Type: Research article - The 21st Century Health Challenge of Slums and Cities
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Research organisation:
CoE New York, USA
Year: 2005
Type: Research article - Safety as a human right
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2003
Type: Research article
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