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Can national survey data be used to select a core set of indicators for monitoring the sustainability of urban mobility policies?
No full textThis paper employs citizens’ opinions to select a core set of indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of policies for sustainable urban mobility. A national survey is carried out to gather Italians’ perceptions over a basic conceptual framework of dimensions and objectives of urban mobility policies with the aim of providing a ranking of the associated indicators functional to measure the sustainability of transport policies. Our results show that different sets of indicators may be chosen according to city size and transport mode mostly used by citizens
• Can national survey data be used to select a core set of indicators for monitoring the sustainability of urban mobility policies?
No full text"Milano, 15 ottobre 1771: una festa civica per la rinascita della città”
No full textIl 15 ottobre 1771 il figlio di Maria Teresa d’Austria sposava a Milano Maria Beatrici Ricciarda d’Este. Per l’occasione vennero allestite pompe di architettura e spettacoli con impianti scenici dei quali si ricostruiscono le caratteristiche
Top-down and Bottom-up. Testing a mixed approach to the generation of priorities for sustainable urban mobility
No full textThis paper contributes to the debate on how to make operational the concept of sustainable urban
mobility and advocates the use of a mixed – top-down and bottom-up – approach to the generation of
priorities for sustainable urban mobility.
In particular, we tested whether a common list of priorities remain valid after a participated scrutiny
performed in seven urban areas of southern Italy. The test was based on a 3-steps procedure. In step
1, we used a common conceptual framework (based on Mameli and Marletto, 2014) to generate seven
area-specific lists of priorities. In step 2, local stakeholders participated to deliberative meetings aimed
at amending or deleting each of the proposed priorities, as well as adding new ones. In step 3, citizens'
opinion was gathered through seven sample polls and used to rank the list of priorities resulting from
stakeholders' deliberation.
The test generated three main results: 1) Deliberation between local stakeholders was useful for
adapting common priorities to the characteristics of each area. But, with the exception of Reggio
Calabria – an urban area with very specific features –, the structure of the starting common conceptual
framework was not altered. 2) Surveys on citizens' opinion were useful, not only for ranking priorities,
but also for taking into account the relevant differences between car users and the rest of the
population. 3) With great caution, reference may be made to a common set of six top priorities
referring to: (accessibility by and economic sustainability of) public transport, air pollution, accidents,
greenhouse gasses and transport waste. These top priorities cover all three dimension of sustainability
(environmental, social and economic)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An organic FET structure for unconventional substrates
No full textA structure for organic TFTs suitable for being transferred on unusual substrates is described in each technological step. The proposed device consists in a "bottom-structure" assembled on a flexible and transparent insulating layer, without any substrate, with source and drain contacts on one side and the gate on the opposite side. The main advantage is to avoid the substrate because the insulator itself is able to support the whole structure. For this reason, application to any kind of substrates after the built-in process is possible
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