The European Union (EU) has assigned municipal governments a key role in the transformations needed to achieve its climate and energy objectives. One of the main initiatives of the EU has been the “The Covenant of Mayors”, launched in 2008, with impacts beyond Europe due to integration with the “Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy”. This research focuses on local measures to adapt to climate change, verifying their differences between themselves, and aims to identify and characterize patterns in the different adaptation strategies examined. Further aims are (i) the collection of good practices, framed in the Mayors Adapt initiative, managing multidimensional data from the context and from its adaptation proposals; (ii) the classification of strategies in profiles and patterns using artificial neural networks based on the previous variables; (iii) the characterization and comparison of such profiles. The results substantiate the existence of several well-differentiated approaches, connected with their geographical context, vulnerability and politics. These results provide valuable information for its interpretation and for the planning of climate change adaptation actions, highlighting the value of the creation of networks of institutional collaboration targeted at each strategic framework.

El peatón ocupa un lugar destacado en la movilidad urbana, tanto por representar el modo de transporte más básico y que alimenta al resto de modos de transporte, como por mantener una relación intensa y directa con las actividades urbanas, conformando los denominados entornos de movilidad peatonal o entornos peatonales. Es por ello que profundizar en el conocimiento de aquellos factores de los entornos construidos que mayor relación guardan con el peatón resulta fundamental, tanto para mejorar la calidad de la movilidad peatonal en las calles, como para lograr que las centralidades, el transporte público o los espacios públicos sean más accesibles. Con esta finalidad, el presente artículo evalúa, a través de la bibliografía especializada, los enfoques más frecuentes de análisis de la figura del peatón, así como los factores que son tenidos en cuenta por la población para optar por la modalidad de transporte que él representa, considerando su dimensión y su valoración

The built environment influences and promotes cycling that has now become a challenge for sustainable urban mobility in many cities where this mode of transport carries little weight. This is the case for Granada (Spain), a medium-sized city in southern Europe, which as a university city and with lots of green areas, could find potential supportive factors to promote cycling. Website-apps with a Global Positioning System (GPS), such as Ciclogreen that encourage active accessibility try to promote cycling and are supported by the University of Granada. The aim of this work is to assess the capacity of green areas and some influential factors of their built environment to attract cycling routes. To this end, a spatial analysis was made and interpreted by a statistical model to check the correlation between these factors and a high number of cycling routes through or near the green areas. The results show a high number of cycling routes within urban surroundings that include green areas, cycle lanes, university facilities, and public car parks in proximity relationships. Identifying synergies among these urban factors and the information and incentive coming from a digital catalyst in shape on an app could be useful in urban planning for cycling.

The last few years have seen a growing interest in furthering our understanding of the complex relationships between land use and transport. Nevertheless, putting that knowledge into practice in urban transport planning has been adversely affected by the lack of broad consensus on the main concepts and methods used in this field. To address that issue, this paper proposes a new approach based on the concept of ‘mobility environments’ as a new instrument for mobility planning. To illustrate and assess the ‘mobility environments’ approach, an application has been developed for a metropolitan transport corridor in the city of Granada (Spain), where local institutions are funding the implementation of a new light rail system. This paper highlights a number of important findings related to what exactly ‘mobility environments’ are and how they can be used in planning practice.