The railway corridor as a functional subsystem for rebalancing socially and environmentally metropolitan areas

The way we move around the territory is linked to the way we occupy it. In this sense, integrated spatial and transport planning is useful to build relations between land-use patterns and mobility flows in line with principles of sustainable urban development such as spatial cohesion, social inclusion, environmental quality and economic competitiveness. The main goal of this paper is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of railway corridors as Metropolitan functional systems according to public transport networks in compact and mixed land-use urban environments based on TOD models. The initi... Mehr ...