The integration of land use and transport of railway station areas: the node-places of Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal

• Type: Summary of Presentation in an International Conference
• Date: 2014

Authors

Vale, David S. (Author) Other; Pereira, Mauro (Author) Other; Saraiva, Miguel Marinho (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Conference proceedings. The Association of American Geographers 2014 Annual Meeting

The Association of American Geographers 2014 Annual Meeting

Tampa, Florida, 8-12 abril 2014

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Abstract (EN): One of the major challenges of contemporary urban planning is to reduce automobile dependency, a consequence of car-oriented transport and urban development policies of the last 50 years. Even in such contexts as the Mediterranean cities, suburbs are relatively dense but have a low multimodal accessibility, and recent developments appear to be emphasizing the car dependency of these places. This situation can only be reversed if there is an effective integration of land use and transport, but there is a shortage of measures and indicators to clearly identify unbalanced territories and that could be used as planning tools. In this paper, we are testing the node-place model as a possible indicator of the integration of land use and transport of the urban areas around the railway stations of Lisbon Metropolitan Area. This is followed by a cluster analysis of the node-places, and detailed land use and transport analysis of archetypal railway station areas. Results show that in Lisbon it is possible to identify several cases of node-place balance, despite an overall tendency for the place-index to be higher than the node-index, suggesting that, in this city, Transit Oriented Development has to be pursued mainly by increasing the multimodal accessibility of the railway station areas rather than by densifying them. Detailed analyses of the typical node-places suggest that the model is adequate in identifying the level of integration, and could be used as a strategic planning tool.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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