Economic and population growth, higher life quality standards, and lower interest rates
have led to an increase in the demand for housing. However, in many urban areas, land for …

This paper reviews the state of the art on autonomous vehicles as of 2017, including their
impact at socio-economic, energy, safety, congestion and land-use levels. This impact study …

Compactification of cities, ie, the opposite of urban sprawl, has been increasingly presented
in the literature as a possible solution to reduce the carbon footprint and promote the …

Urban regeneration involves the integrated redevelopment of urban deprived areas, covering
physical, socio-economic and environmental aspects of cities, and it is concerned with …

This article presents a comparative accessibility study between a real city and its redraft as
a Garden City. The benchmarking methodology involves defining and evaluating a location-…

This article presents a model to estimate the impact of geometric and land use elements on
citizens’ perception of urban layout pleasantness. An ordinal regression cumulative link …

This article presents a methodology to estimate the maximum potential impact of a well-built
and conserved cycling infrastructure, measured as modal share for accessibility trips, as …

Sidewalks constitute the main guideway for the walking mode of transport and serve as a
fundamental infrastructure for personal travel including commuting. This is because practically …

Um índice de acessibilidade velocípede–Bike-Index–é apresentado, baseado no esforço
metabólico do ciclista como medida da impedância entre origens e destinos e nas limitações …

For the past few years, the world has been facing one of the worst pandemics of modern
times. The COVID-19 outbreak joined a long list of infectious diseases that turned pandemic, …