Abstract
The Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) process deals with barriers to improve accessibility and quality of life in urban mobility. Public opinion is highly essential for this process because it presents the real needs of road users. This paper illustrates the influence of public opinion on using Private Mobility Vehicle (PMV) in urban. A survey was carried out with 400 participants in Palermo, Italy. The results suggested that there was heterogeneity in gender and age groups in subcategories which represented people who use, do not use, and completely reject, using PMVs in urban. In addition, it was explored that there was a statistically significant relationship at 95% confidence level between sociodemographic characteristics (gender and age groups) and public opinion on PMV using. Employment status was found as an important parameter in transport planning. It was also showed that there was an inconsistency between local and national results. The results suggested that sociodemographic characteristics and public opinion should be investigated in further studies. In addition, a participatory planning process should be carried out to monitor for reliable evaluation in urban transport planning.
Highlights
The number of private cars has reached to 268 million in the EU countries by 2018 [1]
A descriptive statistics analysis was was conducted conducted in forthree variables
Considering the characteristics of participants in G1, the results suggested that people who preferred to own a private car were more likely to use it for traveling Private between
Summary
The number of private cars has reached to 268 million in the EU countries by 2018 [1]. The estimated private car ownership in 2035 will rise to 1.8 billion [2], because the predicted number of residents in future urban will be approximately 70% of the world population by 2050 [3]. The predictions based on the current trends show that private car ownership will keep its dominance in urban traffic. A sustainable strategy in urban mobility can address these environmental, social, and economic issues to reduce their potential damages. In this context, several projects, i.e., CH4LLENGE (Addressing Key Challenges of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning), CIVITAS (City-Vitality-Sustainability), SUMPs-Up, with the aim of establishing sustainable mobility plans in urban for providing guidelines to decision-makers [4]
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