Sustainable mobility planning is an emerging planning concept, largely applied in European and American cities during the last two decades, as a means to achieve more efficient and sustainable cities regarding the cea...Sustainable mobility planning is an emerging planning concept, largely applied in European and American cities during the last two decades, as a means to achieve more efficient and sustainable cities regarding the ceasing of the major threats to urban environment, namely： climate change, accidents, traffic saturation, air and noise pollution, car dependency and domination in the public space. Municipality of Piraeus is a developing autonomous commercial and business center, characterized by high density housing, narrow street geometric characteristics and the port presence. Aim of this paper is to present its recent sustainable mobility plan by putting special emphasis on the strategic plan for a cycling network. The key principles of its methodological development are demonstrated along with the strategic enhancement of walking and multimodal transport services. The main objective is to integrate cycling in mobility policies applied by the described plan in Piraeus.展开更多
文摘Sustainable mobility planning is an emerging planning concept, largely applied in European and American cities during the last two decades, as a means to achieve more efficient and sustainable cities regarding the ceasing of the major threats to urban environment, namely： climate change, accidents, traffic saturation, air and noise pollution, car dependency and domination in the public space. Municipality of Piraeus is a developing autonomous commercial and business center, characterized by high density housing, narrow street geometric characteristics and the port presence. Aim of this paper is to present its recent sustainable mobility plan by putting special emphasis on the strategic plan for a cycling network. The key principles of its methodological development are demonstrated along with the strategic enhancement of walking and multimodal transport services. The main objective is to integrate cycling in mobility policies applied by the described plan in Piraeus.
