RIA

SINHGADE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE

Amruta Arvind Potdar
T.Y.B.Arch Div : C
Roll no.: 32
Urban
Mobility

1 About the Topic

2 Aim and Objectives

3 Research papers and books


What is Urban Mobility?
Urban mobility is organized into three
broad categories of collective, individual,
and freight transportation. While the
mobility of passengers is the outcome of
individual decisions based on different
rationales, freight mobility is decided in
tandem between the cargo owners and
transportation service providers.
Urban areas are the most complex settings in which the
mobility of passengers and freight is taking place. In
several instances, passengers and freight movements
are complementary, but sometimes they may be
competing for the usage of available land and transport
infrastructures:
1. Collective Transportation (public transit).
2. Individual Transportation.
3. Freight Transportation.
Rapid urban development occurring across much of the
globe increased the mobility of passengers and freight
within urban areas. Mobility also tends to involve longer
distances, but evidence suggests that commuting times
have remained relatively similar over the last hundred
years; approximately 1 to 1.2 hours per day is spent on
average commuting. This means that commuting has
gradually shifted to faster transport modes, and
consequently, greater distances could be traveled using
the same amount of time.
Being able to move around cities is a basic requirement for the
development of most human activities. Yet daily trips between home and
work, study, leisure, and other daily commitments are not always done
under the most comfortable conditions, whether it be because of crowded
public transportation or unexpected traffic jams. Urban mobility is a hotly
debated topic, from informal conversation circles to technical and scientific
seminars. It's hard to find someone who doesn't have an opinion on the
subject or some miraculous solution to the problems in their city or region.
In fact, we have already posted several articles addressing this issue on this
site, from utopian proposals to questions related to the daily lives of most of
the population.

Urban mobility should not be studied or considered in isolation,

limited to a problem of public transport, transport engineering, or
travel efficiency. It must be integrated into a reflection on the urban
totality, including its complexities and contradictions, its conflicts of
interests, and the inequalities that manifest themselves in cities.
Urban mobility must above all be designed to provide greater
access to the city. The architect draws the city, whether through a
single small building or a greater master plan. We have to be aware
that fairer cities and societies can be made possible through our
actions.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of an urban design plan is to provide an integrated
outcome for the project as a whole that takes into account the
communities along the proposed road and how people live and
use their environment and surroundings, both the built and
natural environment

Objective : a place with its own identity: to

promote character in townscape and landscape
by responding to and reinforcing locally
distinctive patterns of development, landscape
and culture.
 Reference Books and Research papers
Research Papers :

1. Urban Mobility Indexes: A Brief Review of the Literature

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146517306373

2. Evaluation of sustainable urban mobility in the city of Thessaloniki

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146517303848

Refrence books :
1. Urban Design: Method and Techniques
2. Faster, Smarter, Greener the future of the car and urban mobility (THE MIT PRESS)