Current trends in urban planning aim at the reduction of space for private vehicles to
promote alternative mobility, more diverse activities on streets and reduced pollution for …

Urban street networks in the United States have been primarily designed for automobile
traffic with negligible considerations to non-motorized transportation users. Due to …

Street networks allow people and goods to move through cities, but they are vulnerable to
disasters like floods, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks. Well-planned network design can …

Despite their growing application and worldwide diffusion, the transformative potential of
experiments aimed at achieving “streets for people” rather than “streets for traffic” remains …

The COVID-19 pandemic helped reveal much-needed insights about how people view cities
and interact with public space. City leaders, planners and even the public realised how …

The focus of this paper is the potential application of the network analysis combined with
point of interest data to provide evidence-based support for effective reshaping of …

Since automobile use became widespread in North America, Europe, and Australia during
the first two decades of the 20th century, cities and their streets have been reshaped to …

While inquiry in operations research (OR) modeling of urban planning processes is long-
standing, on the whole, the OR discipline has not influenced urban planning practice …

The overvaluation of the use of automobile has detrimentally affected the importance of
pedestrians within the city and consequently its public spaces. As a way of treating …

Sustainability for cities can be understood as the process of reducing the footprint of urban
development whilst improving liveability (Newman & Kenworthy, 1999). Figure 1.1 …