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Publications Routes/Roads Urban Mobility

This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of urban mobility. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Public sector governance of urban freight management

    The article summarizes the findings of an analysis of case studies and presents a partnership based framework to address the challenges of urban freight management.

  • Europe: key challenges and solution strategies for urban freight transport

    This article discusses the challenges and some solutions for urban freight management. It highlights the importance of addressing delivery vehicles in any planning for sustainable cities, the importance of partnerships, and the careful consideration of geography, other transport tasks and logistics chains as factors in the success of initiatives to improve urban freight transport.

  • Introductory Article

    In recent years, the focus of policy makers and transport planners has shifted from moving vehicles, to moving people and goods and seeking to moderate transport demand.With this shift has come a greater focus on optimising the use of the transport system, although this has often been on a modal basis or with a bias towards particular modes in order to maximise particular outcomes - for example economic or environmental. The concept of sustainable freight transport is a common theme of the freight [...]

  • Cyclist and pedestrian mobility in France

    From revising urban planning around the automobile to supplanting the automobile in favor of alternative modes of transport, France's urban areas are changing with the implementation of new regulatory tools that have fueled many new ideas.[...]

  • Quebec gives its full support to cycling!

    The province of Quebec's population of nearly 8 million is concentrated in the Saint-Laurent Valley. Quebec residents must contend with harsh winter conditions that heavily limit bicyclists' activity. Yet despite this constraint, a cycling culture has been ingrained throughout the province unlike any other in North America. Over half of all adult Quebecois ride bikes, with more than a third getting out to pedal at least once a week. The number of cyclists using their bikes for transportation in [...]