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Mr. Ahmad Adeel
KU Leuven

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Ahmad Adeel is a Doctoral candidate in Architecture at KU Leuven having past experience in Urban & Transport Planning. He attained his postgrad degree in Transportation Sciences (Mobility Managemnet) from Hasselt University Belgium and holds his undergrad degree in City & Regional Planning from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore. He is a research scholar from Higher Education Commission Pakistan working in the area of ‘Land use and Transport interactions’. He is an intense researcher, a designer and a software analyst in his disciplines. He has also worked as a researcher in Aalborg University, Denmark under the project of ‘transit based access’, which gave him the opportunity to work explicitly on different urban planning and transportation issues. Besides, his academic qualification, Adeel holds work experience in the metropolitan planning, urban development and transportation sector where he has proved himself to be a competent individual and team player. His past positions include working as an Assistant Director at Lahore Development Authority (Lahore).

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Project Goal: PhD Research Project

Starting Date:01 January 2018

Current Stage: Writing

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Published: 02 July 2021 in Sustainability
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State of the art mass transit systems, such as bus rapid transit (BRT), have appeared to be an innovative solution to meet the mobility needs of many world cities. However, their ability to transform surrounding urban fabric remains less explored in the developing world. This paper examines the impacts of BRT Lahore on land development patterns, considering the phenomena of land use revitalization, densification, and property reconfiguration. We have used quantitative approaches to gauge the changes in the urban fabric, with respect to the local neighborhood conditions and parcel level attributes, using multilevel logit models. The results of the logit models reveal heterogeneous impacts on conversions to commercial plazas, apartment buildings, and mixed-use buildings. The distance to the BRT station and size of the property is significantly associated with these conversions. Overall, one can notice a lack of a sense of place making and an absence of transit-oriented zoning around BRT stations. The desire of sustainable transit-oriented development to intensify land uses according to local conditions requires local urban designers and planners to think ahead of the curve by working on the regulatory and zoning restrictions governing the designs of built environment and also address the issues of gentrification and social inequity.

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Ahmad Adeel; Bruno Notteboom; Ansar Yasar; Kris Scheerlinck; Jeroen Stevens. Insights into the Impacts of Mega Transport Infrastructures on the Transformation of Urban Fabric: Case of BRT Lahore. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7451 .

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Ahmad Adeel, Bruno Notteboom, Ansar Yasar, Kris Scheerlinck, Jeroen Stevens. Insights into the Impacts of Mega Transport Infrastructures on the Transformation of Urban Fabric: Case of BRT Lahore. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7451.

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Ahmad Adeel; Bruno Notteboom; Ansar Yasar; Kris Scheerlinck; Jeroen Stevens. 2021. "Insights into the Impacts of Mega Transport Infrastructures on the Transformation of Urban Fabric: Case of BRT Lahore." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7451.

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Published: 09 June 2021 in Sustainability
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The incompatibility between the microscale-built environment designs around mass transit stations and stakeholders’ preferences causes dissatisfaction and inconvenience. The lack of a pedestrian-friendly environment, uncontrolled development patterns, traffic and parking issues make the street life vulnerable and unattractive for users, and affect the mass transit usage. How to design the streetscapes around mass transit stations to provide a user-friendly street environment is a crucial question to achieve sustainable transit-oriented development goals. To recognize the specific attributes of streetscape environment relevant in local context of BRT Lahore, this paper presents the results of a visual preference experiment in which nine attributes of built environment were systematically varied across choice sets. Multinomial logit models were set up to identify the preferences of three target groups: BRT users, commercial building users and residents at different locations. The research indicates that not only the road-related factors (bike lane and sidewalk widths, crossings facilities, street greenery) have a significant influence on people’s preference but also that building heights, and the typology of buildings and housing projects around BRT corridor have shaped these preferences. When planning and designing urban design projects around mass transit projects, these significant attributes should be considered.

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Ahmad Adeel; Bruno Notteboom; Ansar Yasar; Kris Scheerlinck; Jeroen Stevens. Sustainable Streetscape and Built Environment Designs around BRT Stations: A Stated Choice Experiment Using 3D Visualizations. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6594 .

AMA Style

Ahmad Adeel, Bruno Notteboom, Ansar Yasar, Kris Scheerlinck, Jeroen Stevens. Sustainable Streetscape and Built Environment Designs around BRT Stations: A Stated Choice Experiment Using 3D Visualizations. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6594.

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Ahmad Adeel; Bruno Notteboom; Ansar Yasar; Kris Scheerlinck; Jeroen Stevens. 2021. "Sustainable Streetscape and Built Environment Designs around BRT Stations: A Stated Choice Experiment Using 3D Visualizations." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6594.

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Published: 09 February 2021 in Sustainability
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Since rapid growth and car-oriented patterns became a global threat and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) levels are advancing, strategies to redesign the built environment into healthier spaces have gained importance. Walkability plays a central role in this context. However, the literature is dominated by studies from western industrialized countries. In this paper, we employed structural equational modeling to analyze perceptual data collected from different neighborhoods of Muscat. We compared the responses regarding environmental attributes to the frequency of walking for transport. We found that land use mix combined with low residential density are the factors that have the highest impact on pedestrian activity. Conversely, the estimates of the pedestrian infrastructure were surprisingly low, suggesting that, in car dominant societies, walking perceptions are affected by drivers’ perspectives.

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Gustavo Siqueira; Ahmad Adeel; Petrit Pasha; Amal Balushi; Syyed Shah. Sustainable Transportation and Policy Development: A Study for Impact Analysis of Mobility Patterns and Neighborhood Assessment of Walking Behavior. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1871 .

AMA Style

Gustavo Siqueira, Ahmad Adeel, Petrit Pasha, Amal Balushi, Syyed Shah. Sustainable Transportation and Policy Development: A Study for Impact Analysis of Mobility Patterns and Neighborhood Assessment of Walking Behavior. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1871.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Gustavo Siqueira; Ahmad Adeel; Petrit Pasha; Amal Balushi; Syyed Shah. 2021. "Sustainable Transportation and Policy Development: A Study for Impact Analysis of Mobility Patterns and Neighborhood Assessment of Walking Behavior." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1871.