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Dr. Tom Rye
Department of Logistics and Transport, Molde University College, Britvegen 2 NO-6410 Molde, Norway

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0 Making streetscape accessible for disabled people
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0 Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning
0 Scheme option generation and appraisal

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Journal article
Published: 11 May 2021 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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Transport accounts for 40% of global emissions, 72% of which comes from road transport, and private cars are responsible for 60% of road transport emissions. In cities, self-service bike sharing systems are quickly developing and are intended to offer an alternative and cleaner mode of transport than the car. However, the sustainability of such schemes is often taken as a given, rather than thoroughly evaluated. To address this gap, in this paper we undertake a life cycle assessment (LCA) of a public self-service bike sharing system in the city of Edinburgh, UK, modelling the production, operation and disposal elements of the system, but discounting additional food intake by users. Our results show that the bike sharing scheme is saving carbon dioxide equivalent emissions compared to the modes of transport by which its users previously travelled, but it is essential to optimize rebalancing operations and to manufacture bikes as near as possible to the point of use to further reduce carbon emissions; and that the overall emissions impacts of the scheme are critically dependent on how public transport providers respond to reductions in demand as users shift trips to bikeshare, since most trips transfer from walk and public transport, not private car. The policy implications for authorities seeking to use BSS as a GHG reduction intervention are not straightforward.

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Léa D’Almeida; Tom Rye; Francesco Pomponi. Emissions assessment of bike sharing schemes: the case of Just Eat Cycles in Edinburgh, UK. Sustainable Cities and Society 2021, 103012 .

AMA Style

Léa D’Almeida, Tom Rye, Francesco Pomponi. Emissions assessment of bike sharing schemes: the case of Just Eat Cycles in Edinburgh, UK. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2021; ():103012.

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Léa D’Almeida; Tom Rye; Francesco Pomponi. 2021. "Emissions assessment of bike sharing schemes: the case of Just Eat Cycles in Edinburgh, UK." Sustainable Cities and Society , no. : 103012.

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Published: 20 January 2021 in Sustainability
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The paper presents the results of the application of a practical approach for collecting data, which provides a simple, cost efficient, and easily reproducible method that was applied to obtain the necessary data for the status analysis of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) for Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. Important data for the estimation of the existing condition of the traffic system were collected through desk research from the appropriate institutions and organizations. Several surveys and focus group interviews were conducted, in which about 5000 residents of Podgorica participated. In addition to answering questions, residents made numerous suggestions, confirming the correctness of a participatory approach in the new traffic planning paradigm that provides the SUMP with crucial advantages. A manual cordon count of traffic on five bridges for the traffic of the motor vehicles, as well as on two pedestrian-only bridges, was performed by students from the study program Road Traffic, and there are plans to repeat this in the coming years in order to enable more reliable monitoring and evaluation of the obtained data. Contemporary quality management tools such as BYPAD and ParkPAD were also used to assess the status of cycling and parking policy, respectively. It is especially important to emphasize that Podgorica is the first city in the West Balkans, and the fourth city in Europe, in which the ParkPAD tool was applied. A wide range of negative phenomena and trends was identified, like a rapid increase in the number of registered vehicles, an increase in the motorization rate and the number of traffic accidents, increased non-compliance with traffic rules, excessive use of passenger cars and auto-taxi vehicles, insufficient use of unattractive public transport, walking and cycling, etc. Based on the data collected, key challenges in status analysis in Podgorica were identified, which the SUMP should try to overcome.

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Radoje Vujadinović; Jelena Jovanović; Aljaž Plevnik; Luka Mladenovič; Tom Rye. Key Challenges in the Status Analysis for the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan in Podgorica, Montenegro. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1037 .

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Radoje Vujadinović, Jelena Jovanović, Aljaž Plevnik, Luka Mladenovič, Tom Rye. Key Challenges in the Status Analysis for the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan in Podgorica, Montenegro. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1037.

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Radoje Vujadinović; Jelena Jovanović; Aljaž Plevnik; Luka Mladenovič; Tom Rye. 2021. "Key Challenges in the Status Analysis for the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan in Podgorica, Montenegro." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1037.

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Published: 03 October 2020 in Sustainability
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The objective of the paper is to explore whether particular problematisations of cars and car use lead to sets of solutions that may not deal with all problems associated with car use, and whether this leads to any internal conflicts within the chosen policies. The paper is based on a review of local transport policy documents from 13 cities in four countries using the lens of policy problematisation as an analytical framework. Some critiques of policy problematisation are discussed in the paper but it is nonetheless shown to be helpful for this analysis. The paper finds that the problems most typically highlighted in the strategies reviewed are poor accessibility (as a “bad” in itself, but also because it is seen to compromise economic growth); the negative impacts of traffic on liveability of the central part of the city and therefore its ability to attract inhabitants, especially those needed to support a knowledge economy; local air and noise pollution; and road safety. The resulting visions are for urban areas less dominated by private cars, with more green and public space, in order to maximise accessibility and liveability to attract economic development; and most cities also seek to reduce car travel as a proportion of trips. However, in many cities this vision covers mainly the central city, with car use set to remain dominant in outer cities and for regional trips. In almost all cities, only one measure, parking management, is proposed as a means of cutting car use. The differing sets of measures envisaged for outer areas of cities threatens to undermine those envisaged for more central cities.

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Tom Rye; Robert Hrelja. Policies for Reducing Car Traffic and Their Problematisation. Lessons from the Mobility Strategies of British, Dutch, German and Swedish Cities. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8170 .

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Tom Rye, Robert Hrelja. Policies for Reducing Car Traffic and Their Problematisation. Lessons from the Mobility Strategies of British, Dutch, German and Swedish Cities. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (19):8170.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Tom Rye; Robert Hrelja. 2020. "Policies for Reducing Car Traffic and Their Problematisation. Lessons from the Mobility Strategies of British, Dutch, German and Swedish Cities." Sustainability 12, no. 19: 8170.

Journal article
Published: 26 February 2020 in Analytic Methods in Accident Research
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This study seeks to identify and analyze variations in the effect of contributing factors on injury severities of single-vehicle accidents across various lighting and weather conditions. To that end, injury-severity data from single-vehicle, injury accidents occurred in Scotland, United Kingdom in 2016 and 2017 are statistically modeled. Upon the conduct of likelihood ratio tests, separate models of accident injury severities are estimated for various combinations of weather and lighting conditions taking also into account the presence and operation of roadside lighting infrastructure. To account for the possibility of unobserved regimes underpinning the injury-severity mechanism, the zero-inflated hierarchical ordered probit approach with correlated disturbances is employed. This approach also relaxes the fixed threshold restriction of the traditional ordered probability models and captures systematic unobserved variations between the underlying regimes. The model estimation results show that a wide range of accident, vehicle, driver, trip and location characteristics have varying impacts on injury severities when different weather and lighting conditions are jointly considered. Even though several factors are identified to have overall consistent effects on injury severities, the simultaneous impact of unfavorable weather and lighting conditions is found to introduce significant variations, especially in the effect of vehicle- and driver-specific characteristics. The findings of this study can be leveraged in vehicle-to-infrastructure or in-vehicle communication technologies that can assist drivers in their responses against hazardous environmental conditions.

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Grigorios Fountas; Achille Fonzone; Niaz Gharavi; Tom Rye. The joint effect of weather and lighting conditions on injury severities of single-vehicle accidents. Analytic Methods in Accident Research 2020, 27, 100124 .

AMA Style

Grigorios Fountas, Achille Fonzone, Niaz Gharavi, Tom Rye. The joint effect of weather and lighting conditions on injury severities of single-vehicle accidents. Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 2020; 27 ():100124.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Grigorios Fountas; Achille Fonzone; Niaz Gharavi; Tom Rye. 2020. "The joint effect of weather and lighting conditions on injury severities of single-vehicle accidents." Analytic Methods in Accident Research 27, no. : 100124.