Impact of urban facilities spatial inequality on sustainable travel mode
Journal
PLOS ONE
ISSN
1932-6203
Date Issued
2024
Author(s)
Luz Flórez-Calderón
Yasna Cortés
Marcelo Lufin
Type
journal-article
Abstract
<jats:p>With the implementation of sustainable development objectives in developing countries, urban planning, land use regulation, and urban mobility policies are expected to help reduce inequalities in access to urban facilities. Urban transport policies are also expected to encourage travel by non-motorised modes and public transport. These are considered to be the sustainable modes of urban transport. In this paper, we investigate how inequality of urban facilities impacts trips made by sustainable modes in the city of Santiago de Chile. We use a Poisson regression model and its geographical extension, the geographically weighted Poisson regression model (GWPR). The results suggest that the inequality of urban facilities impacts trips made by sustainable modes. The variables with the highest relevance are the spatial distribution of mixed land use, the spatial distribution of urban services related to transport infrastructure, primary and secondary education, as well as the spatial distribution of demographic variables related to people’s life cycle.</jats:p>
Subjects
chile
;
cities
;
city planning
;
humans
;
socioeconomic factors
;
sustainable development
;
transportation
;
travel
;
urban population
;
chile
;
city
;
city planning
;
human
;
procedures
;
socioeconomics
;
sustainable development
;
traffic and transport
;
travel
;
urban population