CITY-HUBs: Sustainable and Efficient Urban Transport by Andres Monzon-de-Caceres,Floridea Di Ciommo

By Andres Monzon-de-Caceres,Floridea Di Ciommo

Explore the layout and Operation of city delivery Interchanges


Transport planners through the global can enforce more than a few rules to steer tourists’ habit, and inspire a circulate to public shipping to accomplish city sustainability and social inclusion. whilst inhabitants development and concrete sprawl exert their very own pressures. caliber, obtainable and trustworthy public delivery via intermodal journeys offers an answer. greater than 20% of present commuting journeys in Europe are intermodal, and customarily among 20% and 30% of journey time is spent in intermodal move. Interchange stations have gotten vital elements of urban infrastructure the place humans spend time on social or financial activities.


Includes Contributions from a number of specialists within the Field


CITY-HUBs: Sustainable and effective city shipping Interchanges specializes in city delivery interchanges from greater than 20 ecu researchers demonstrates why delivery interchanges are the most important for a unbroken public delivery approach. it really is in keeping with a wide session strategy to stakeholders of 26 interchanges in 10 diverse nations, and on adapted surveys to tourists in 5 of them. It indicates tourists how one can decrease the risks of move by way of bettering details provision and by way of supplying handy companies and facilities.


The publication outlines the necessary steps from interchange making plans to operation, and defines the features, the layout of the gap for move, remain and prone, and assesses the wishes for various different types of interchange. It introduces the evaluate of city and monetary affects and the id of clients’ perceptions to enhance interchange potency. an important components from the person viewpoint are security and safety, move stipulations, details, layout, companies and amenities, environmental caliber and luxury. those outline the potency of the interchange from assorted views: as a shipping node and as a place.


Packed with suitable information and providing step by step guideline, this book:




  • Proposes leading edge working concepts for an intermodal providers association (i.e. leading edge enterprise model)

  • Explores pilot and try case stories for outlining interchanges sturdy perform, and assessments them in validation case experiences

  • Sets out city making plans instructions for city integration of a delivery interchange


As a complicated advisor CITY-HUBs: Sustainable and effective city delivery Interchanges caters to move operators, gurus, end-users’ corporations and coverage makers who're challenged to enforce new city interchanges or to improve them.

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