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En las últimas décadas, el tren ha jugado un rol poco relevante como elemento estructurante del desarrollo urbano en las ciudades de América Latina. Al igual que otros modos de transporte masivo, el ferrocarril puede ser objeto de estrategias que fomenten la integración del transporte público y del uso del suelo, para encauzar el desarrollo urbano hacia futuros más sustentables. Considerando que en Chile se están gradualmente reactivando servicios ferroviarios de cercanía alrededor de las principales ciudades, cabe preguntarse si el transporte ferroviario puede también aportar a formas de desarrollo urbano orientado al transporte en el contexto chileno. Así, este artículo explora precisamente el rol urbano de las estaciones y su potencial para opciones de desarrollo orientado al transporte. Enfocándose en el caso de Santiago, el trabajo analiza las estaciones a través del modelo node-place, que examina cada estación en base a su rol como nodo (es decir, a cuántos destinos permite alcanzar) y como lugar (considerando diversidad e intensidad de las actividades que se dan en sus inmediaciones). Los resultados muestran el limitado rol urbano que las estaciones ferroviarias cumplen en la capital chilena, evidenciando cierta homogeneidad respecto a los niveles de accesibilidad o a la atractividad de los entornos urbanos de cada estación. La aplicación del modelo nodo-lugar demuestra que el tren tiene un potencial no aprovechado para el desarrollo urbano de los entornos que atraviesa en Santiago y confirma el rol potencial de las estaciones como pequeñas polaridades a escala barrial y comunal.
Giovanni Vecchio. Estaciones como nodos y lugares: el potencial del tren para el desarrollo urbano orientado al transporte en Santiago, Chile. Revista Urbano 2021, 24, 84 -95.
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio. Estaciones como nodos y lugares: el potencial del tren para el desarrollo urbano orientado al transporte en Santiago, Chile. Revista Urbano. 2021; 24 (43):84-95.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio. 2021. "Estaciones como nodos y lugares: el potencial del tren para el desarrollo urbano orientado al transporte en Santiago, Chile." Revista Urbano 24, no. 43: 84-95.
The Capability Approach, developed by Sen and Nussbaum, has recently gained increasing attention in the transport literature. This paper adds to this growing body of literature by investigating how the approach can generate consistent evaluative approaches to inform (urban) transport planning. The paper reviews the mobility literature that has investigated the Capabilities Approach and identifies the opportunities and challenges of employing the approach as a basis for transport planning. The review highlights the different, and sometimes patchy, ways in which the key notions of the approach have been conceptualised and operationalised. Discussing this growing but scattered literature, the paper embraces the emerging direction that understands accessibility as the capability that transport planning and policy should consider. Further refining this understanding, the paper proposes a twofold evaluative approach combining a top-down and a bottom-up component to capture the myriad of conversion factors shaping people’s accessibility-as-capability and functioning. By systematically adopting the Capabilities Approach, transport planning and mobility policies will be directed to enhancing each person’s freedom to pursue the life they have reason to value in contemporary societies.
Giovanni Vecchio; Karel Martens. Accessibility and the Capabilities Approach: a review of the literature and proposal for conceptual advancements. Transport Reviews 2021, 1 -22.
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio, Karel Martens. Accessibility and the Capabilities Approach: a review of the literature and proposal for conceptual advancements. Transport Reviews. 2021; ():1-22.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio; Karel Martens. 2021. "Accessibility and the Capabilities Approach: a review of the literature and proposal for conceptual advancements." Transport Reviews , no. : 1-22.
Tratándose del entorno espacial más cercano al individuo, diferentes disciplinas se han aproximado al barrio para investigar su rol en distintas manifestaciones de la participación ciudadana. En este trabajo nos preguntamos si la actitud hacia el propio barrio puede ser un predictor de participación ciudadana. El objetivo de este estudio, además, es investigar si la eventual participación resultante es de tipo cívico o político. Para investigar el tema, desarrollamos un análisis descriptivo de datos referidos a percepción barrial y participación ciudadana en Santiago de Chile. Nuestros resultados proporcionan evidencias de cuánto la dimensión social del barrio (sentido de pertenencia, capital social y sociabilidad) es un antecedente de la participación cívica, primariamente, y política en segundo nivel.
Giovanni Vecchio; Consuelo Huerta-Olivares; Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri. Habitar, pertenecer y participar: actitud hacia el barrio y participación ciudadana en Santiago de Chile. Bitácora Urbano Territorial 2020, 31, 83 -97.
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio, Consuelo Huerta-Olivares, Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri. Habitar, pertenecer y participar: actitud hacia el barrio y participación ciudadana en Santiago de Chile. Bitácora Urbano Territorial. 2020; 31 (1):83-97.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio; Consuelo Huerta-Olivares; Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri. 2020. "Habitar, pertenecer y participar: actitud hacia el barrio y participación ciudadana en Santiago de Chile." Bitácora Urbano Territorial 31, no. 1: 83-97.
La evolución demográfica de América Latina, y especialmente Chile, muestra un creciente envejecimiento de la población: ya en el 2050, uno de cada cuatro latinoamericanos y uno de cada tres chilenos tendrán más de 60 años. Entre los elementos que contribuyen al bienestar de las personas mayores, las posibilidades de movilidad y acceso juegan un rol fundamental y debieran entonces constituirse como prioridad en la formulación de planes y políticas de movilidad. Sin embargo, las tradicionales metodologías de la planificación de trasporte no logran capturar adecuadamente las formas en que las personas mayores se mueven y logran acceder a oportunidades urbanas. El artículo discute el valor de integrar diferentes métodos de análisis para una mejor representación de la movilidad de las personas mayores. Analizando la movilidad y la accesibilidad de una comunidad de personas mayores en el barrio San Eugenio, en Santiago de Chile, el artículo compara los resultados de entrevistas y encuestas por hogares, observando en qué medida contribuyen a la descripción de las prácticas de movilidad y acceso de la población examinada. Los resultados muestran la relevancia de enfoques cualitativos que, a escala barrial, examinan específicamente la población mayor, considerando que estos métodos hacen emerger prácticas de movilidad y patrones de accesibilidad difíciles de observar a través de análisis más agregados. La aproximación a la movilidad de las personas mayores permitida por las herramientas cualitativas requiere considerar las condiciones de su adopción por parte de la planificación de la movilidad al nivel barrial y urbano.
Giovanni Vecchio; Bryan Castillo; Stefan Steiniger. Movilidad urbana y personas mayores en Santiago de Chile: el valor de integrar métodos de análisis, un estudio en el barrio San Eugenio. Revista de Urbanismo 2020, 26 -45.
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio, Bryan Castillo, Stefan Steiniger. Movilidad urbana y personas mayores en Santiago de Chile: el valor de integrar métodos de análisis, un estudio en el barrio San Eugenio. Revista de Urbanismo. 2020; (43):26-45.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio; Bryan Castillo; Stefan Steiniger. 2020. "Movilidad urbana y personas mayores en Santiago de Chile: el valor de integrar métodos de análisis, un estudio en el barrio San Eugenio." Revista de Urbanismo , no. 43: 26-45.
Giovanni Vecchio; Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken; Stefan Steiniger. Vulnerable individuals and institutions: the double territorial burden of COVID-19 in Chile. Town Planning Review 2020, ahead-of-p, 1 -7.
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Stefan Steiniger. Vulnerable individuals and institutions: the double territorial burden of COVID-19 in Chile. Town Planning Review. 2020; ahead-of-p ():1-7.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio; Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken; Stefan Steiniger. 2020. "Vulnerable individuals and institutions: the double territorial burden of COVID-19 in Chile." Town Planning Review ahead-of-p, no. : 1-7.
Socio-spatial concerns are gaining increasing attention in the design of interventions for urban mobility. This is especially true in contexts traditionally characterized by structural inequality and high levels of poverty, in which transport can be a decisive contributor to development thanks to its contribution to a higher social inclusion. Amongst them, Latin America has emerged as a significant laboratory for urban and transport policy due not only to its socioeconomic conditions but also to the implementation of different mobility strategies based on the construction of traditional and innovative infrastructures such as subways and bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. These two transport systems can be complementary or alternative to each other: this depends not only on their transport capacity, their economic sustainability, and to their levels of public acceptability but also on social, political, and spatial features of the setting they serve. This paper intends to discuss the socio-spatial consequences that interventions based on different transport systems can generate, examining them in the city of Quito, Ecuador. The discussion is based on the implementation of the existing BRT network and of a subway line under construction. Reconstructing two contrasting transport policies developed in the city in the last 25 years, this paper proposes an overview of the socio-spatial concerns that influenced and were influenced by urban mobility planning in Quito. To do so, this paper reviews and compares the socio-spatial concerns related to BRT and subway corridors, considering their accessibility, the wider urban transformations they promote, their economic sustainability, and the overall public acceptability, estimating to what extent these have influenced the decision to implement a certain transport policy.
Giovanni Vecchio; Riccardo Porreca; Daniela Jácome Rivera. Socio-Spatial Concerns in Urban Mobility Planning: Insights from Competing Policies in Quito. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2923 .
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio, Riccardo Porreca, Daniela Jácome Rivera. Socio-Spatial Concerns in Urban Mobility Planning: Insights from Competing Policies in Quito. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (7):2923.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio; Riccardo Porreca; Daniela Jácome Rivera. 2020. "Socio-Spatial Concerns in Urban Mobility Planning: Insights from Competing Policies in Quito." Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2923.
The Capabilities Approach is gaining relevance as a theoretical approach that can contribute to consider issues of mobility and justice. The approach helps to better understand how everyday urban mobility can contribute to individuals' capabilities, that is, their ability to freely be and do what one has reason to value. However, in relation to mobility the Capabilities Approach is still missing operational tools that can consider individual specificities and go beyond aggregate evaluations of urban transport systems. Drawing on a research project on urban mobility and human capabilities in Bogotá, the paper discusses how microstories of individual everyday mobilities could be a suitable analytical tool for describing the plural relationship between mobilities and capabilities. Microstories, defined as short accounts of personal everyday mobility experiences, help to account for the features that facilitate or impede individual mobility, and consider the manifold uses of mobility as achieved by each person, according to one's individual choices. The paper discusses three potential contributions of microstories: integrating established evaluative approaches, such as accessibility measures; providing elements for the design of more effective policy actions; expressing features of the mobility experience that, despite their relevance for personal preferences and behaviours, are difficult to include within aggregate evaluations. The usability of microstories as interpretative and operational tools is examined in the light of the obtained results and in relation to policy making processes.
Giovanni Vecchio. Microstories of everyday mobilities and opportunities in Bogotá: A tool for bringing capabilities into urban mobility planning. Journal of Transport Geography 2020, 83, 102652 .
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio. Microstories of everyday mobilities and opportunities in Bogotá: A tool for bringing capabilities into urban mobility planning. Journal of Transport Geography. 2020; 83 ():102652.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio. 2020. "Microstories of everyday mobilities and opportunities in Bogotá: A tool for bringing capabilities into urban mobility planning." Journal of Transport Geography 83, no. : 102652.
A growing concern for mobility-related social inclusion and equity is evident from both academic research and planning best practices. Scholarly research promotes accessibility as the main aim of transport planning, assuming it as the evaluative approach that better conveys how mobility contributes to individuals' well-being and participation in social life. Accessibility can be crucial to address the socio-spatial inequalities that characterise manifold settings across the world. Amongst them, Latin American countries have been keen in tackling such imbalances through mobility-related interventions, as the renowned cases of Curitiba, Medellin and Bogotá show. The widespread interest in mobility as both a cause and effect of social disparities has generated an increasing stream of work that examines Latin American settings through the lenses of accessibility. This paper aims at critically reviewing the growing scholarly works that, providing accessibility-based evaluations, has examined issues of transport and equity in Latin America. Proposing a novel conceptual framework that considers the underlying ethical stance, components of accessibility and implications for planning and policy, this work examines what approaches, features and indicators are present in the current literature, as well as what settings have been taken into consideration by scholarly research. Moreover, the review has an explicit operational interest, to define what indicators are relevant or missing to assess accessibility in the light of social concerns, as well as to consider the current and potential implications that such research findings have on transport planning and policy. The review highlights how a growing but still limited body of work has examined transport and equity in Latin America, suggesting academic, technical and operational avenues to enhance theoretical and practical approaches to the issue.
Giovanni Vecchio; Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken; Ricardo Hurtubia. Transport and equity in Latin America: a critical review of socially oriented accessibility assessments. Transport Reviews 2020, 40, 354 -381.
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Ricardo Hurtubia. Transport and equity in Latin America: a critical review of socially oriented accessibility assessments. Transport Reviews. 2020; 40 (3):354-381.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio; Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken; Ricardo Hurtubia. 2020. "Transport and equity in Latin America: a critical review of socially oriented accessibility assessments." Transport Reviews 40, no. 3: 354-381.
Transport geography and mobilities studies share the same object of study – mobility - which nonetheless has been differently conceptualized by the two disciplinary fields. This difference impacts their analytical, interpretative and operational approaches as well as their actual contribution to transport planning, so that despite their proximity, mobility studies and transport geography still appear as bordering disciplinary fields. To deal with concerns that affect the way we address urban mobility issues, the paper suggests putting into practice what the heterodox economist Albert Hirschman famously called trespassing, as a tactic to cross disciplinary boundaries and progress with some puzzles through detours and forays into other fields. In doing so, the paper aims at exploring how trespassing enhances the way mobilities studies and transport geography may usefully cross-fertilize each other and enhance operational responses to mobility issues, by analysing the conceptual and operational innovations that could benefit from such a reciprocal interchange. To discuss forms of significant trespassing for mobilities, the paper proposes to detect and address emerging forms of everyday mobility, taking long distance commuters (LDC) in the Milan Urban Region as an example. Here, trespassing allows the merging of quantitative and qualitative datasets to understand the articulated nature of this and other forms of contemporary mobilities. Working on the interpretative and operational challenges posed by these emerging mobilities that question key principles of the traditional ‘utilitarian approach’ to transport planning, the paper discusses the conceptual, analytical and operational directions along which trespassing may be developed.
Paola Pucci; Giovanni Vecchio. Trespassing for mobilities. Operational directions for addressing mobile lives. Journal of Transport Geography 2019, 81, 102536 .
AMA StylePaola Pucci, Giovanni Vecchio. Trespassing for mobilities. Operational directions for addressing mobile lives. Journal of Transport Geography. 2019; 81 ():102536.
Chicago/Turabian StylePaola Pucci; Giovanni Vecchio. 2019. "Trespassing for mobilities. Operational directions for addressing mobile lives." Journal of Transport Geography 81, no. : 102536.
Accessibility, as a requisite to guarantee the individual ability to participate in valued activities, has been receiving increasing yet scattered attention from diverse theoretical and operational approaches. These approaches focus on how individuals are able to engage in out-of-home activities, participate in social life as well as on their involvement in other activities that contribute to their overall well-being. The paper aims at further investigating such approaches, analysing forms of inequality in job-related mobilities while assuming that a person's accessibility depends on both contextual and individual factors. Taking the Buenos Aires metropolitan area as a suitable testbed, the paper offers an approach to identify the inequalities in job-related accessibility at the neighbourhood scale. The approach considers the relationship between the quality and supply of public transport, level of social exclusion and reachable employment opportunities. The research proposes a synthetic index of inequalities in access to job opportunities (IAO) to identify disadvantaged urban areas characterized by a confluence of problems related to socio-economic deprivations, low accessibility to employment as well as a low mobility and poor quality of transport supply. The approach has an explicit operational dimension and intends to contribute to outlining tailored measures to guarantee better job opportunities, as in the case of people living in areas experiencing sub-standard levels of accessibility to workplaces.
Paola Pucci; Giovanni Vecchio; Lucía Bocchimuzzi; Giovanni Lanza. Inequalities in job-related accessibility: Testing an evaluative approach and its policy relevance in Buenos Aires. Applied Geography 2019, 107, 1 -11.
AMA StylePaola Pucci, Giovanni Vecchio, Lucía Bocchimuzzi, Giovanni Lanza. Inequalities in job-related accessibility: Testing an evaluative approach and its policy relevance in Buenos Aires. Applied Geography. 2019; 107 ():1-11.
Chicago/Turabian StylePaola Pucci; Giovanni Vecchio; Lucía Bocchimuzzi; Giovanni Lanza. 2019. "Inequalities in job-related accessibility: Testing an evaluative approach and its policy relevance in Buenos Aires." Applied Geography 107, no. : 1-11.
This book investigates how established transport planning tools can evolve to understand and plan for the ever-changing contemporary mobilities that influence the opportunities available to individuals. It discusses existing techniques, revised in the light of the growing interest in the social implications of transport planning decisions: these include analytical tools to interpret consolidated and emerging phenomena, as well as operational tools to tackle new and existing mobility demands and needs. The book then addresses the implications of everyday mobility for individuals and communities. The result of a continuous exchange between the two authors, it brings together the results of their various research projects. Despite referring to different objects and settings, the work presented is connected by an underlying interest in the impact that mobility has on people in an increasingly mobile world, and the need to include such concerns into mobility planning and policy.
Paola Pucci; Giovanni Vecchio. Enabling Mobilities. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2019, 1 .
AMA StylePaola Pucci, Giovanni Vecchio. Enabling Mobilities. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2019; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StylePaola Pucci; Giovanni Vecchio. 2019. "Enabling Mobilities." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 1.
Information-sharing devices contribute to shape individuals' mobility choices. Devices make available both objective and subjective forms of information. Emerging actors like corporations and communities produce and make information usable. Information allows unprecedented initiatives addressing individual mobility behaviours. A policy framework for information-based initiatives is provided.
Giovanni Vecchio; Luca Tricarico. “May the Force move you”: Roles and actors of information sharing devices in urban mobility. Cities 2018, 88, 261 -268.
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio, Luca Tricarico. “May the Force move you”: Roles and actors of information sharing devices in urban mobility. Cities. 2018; 88 ():261-268.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio; Luca Tricarico. 2018. "“May the Force move you”: Roles and actors of information sharing devices in urban mobility." Cities 88, no. : 261-268.
Everyday mobility practices are increasingly an element of interest for urban policy, as well as for suggesting alternative solutions to urban issues. Amongst their manifold contributions, practices can be relevant for securing individuals’ access to places and opportunities. They can do so by promoting services and behaviours based on resources that individuals may share between themselves. This role could be significant especially for those settings where the traditional provision of transport services and infrastructures is more difficult, such as in the informal settlements of the urban South. Drawing on these assumption, this paper intends to investigate policy solutions based on mobility practices, as a suitable way to enhance the access to urban opportunities from informal settlements. Policy approaches focused on mobility supply and demand are explored, addressing options such as the coproduction of mobility services and behavioural approaches based on demand matchmaking. A possible operationalization of such approaches is explored in the marginal informal neighbourhoods of Bogotá, considering their accessibility issues, how shared use mobility policies may tackle them, and what features are necessary for the implementation of such measures. The proposed policy measures emerge as suitable operational options that nonetheless require recognition and support by the institutions responsible for urban mobility planning.
Giovanni Vecchio. Producing Opportunities Together: Sharing-Based Policy Approaches for Marginal Mobilities in Bogotá. Urban Science 2018, 2, 54 .
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio. Producing Opportunities Together: Sharing-Based Policy Approaches for Marginal Mobilities in Bogotá. Urban Science. 2018; 2 (3):54.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio. 2018. "Producing Opportunities Together: Sharing-Based Policy Approaches for Marginal Mobilities in Bogotá." Urban Science 2, no. 3: 54.
Giovanni Vecchio. Equità e trasporti: verso un'etica della mobilità urbana. TERRITORIO 2018, 181 -181.
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio. Equità e trasporti: verso un'etica della mobilità urbana. TERRITORIO. 2018; (84):181-181.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio. 2018. "Equità e trasporti: verso un'etica della mobilità urbana." TERRITORIO , no. 84: 181-181.
Giovanni Vecchio. Democracy on the move? Bogotá’s urban transport strategies and the access to the city. City, Territory and Architecture 2017, 4, 1 .
AMA StyleGiovanni Vecchio. Democracy on the move? Bogotá’s urban transport strategies and the access to the city. City, Territory and Architecture. 2017; 4 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiovanni Vecchio. 2017. "Democracy on the move? Bogotá’s urban transport strategies and the access to the city." City, Territory and Architecture 4, no. 1: 1.