Impact of urban facilities spatial inequality on sustainable travel mode

PLoS One. 2024 Oct 31;19(10):e0308610. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308610. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Chile
  • Cities*
  • City Planning / methods
  • Humans
  • Socioeconomic Factors*
  • Sustainable Development
  • Transportation* / statistics & numerical data
  • Travel* / statistics & numerical data
  • Urban Population

Grants and funding

JU ANID/FONDECYT/FONDECYT/Iniciacion 11241259 JU UCN-VRIDT/ Seed Projects 2023. 10201251 YC ANID/FONDECYT/Initiation 11230850