Future Mobility in Alto Minho Region

A new integrated approach is required for planning and rethinking mobility issues in European Regions, towards allowing them to become better prepared into near future challenges. In this paper, a set of recommendations for future mobility planning in the Alto Minho Region, in Northern Portugal, will be proposed taking into consideration social inclusion and environmental concerns into accessibility planning. The conducted research shows that despite different framework methods and approaches, similar trends emerge in future mobility, reinforcing that cooperative actions to share information and encourage dialogue between all stakeholders (population, politicians and operators) in long term plans is essential. Based on Gini-coefficients assessment and its resulting spider diagrams, a population profile is created aiming to explore the impacts in future mobility solutions. As the result of this approach, this paper presents some key recommendations for future mobility planning, based on an integrated delivery of policies for social and environmental equity within the transportation sector.

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