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Quantitative Surveys: Mobility and Urbanism

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This lecture covers various quantitative survey methods used in studying mobility and urbanism, including surveys at specific generators, roadway mobility surveys, public transport customer satisfaction surveys, traffic counts, and the Swiss automatic road traffic count. It also discusses the Swiss microcensus on transport and mobility, French household travel surveys, and Canadian origin-destination surveys. The lecture delves into different survey techniques such as face-to-face, telephone, and postal surveys, as well as qualitative methods like interviews, observations, and monographs, emphasizing their roles in understanding mobility patterns beyond statistical analysis.

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Mobility and urban planning

Over the last twenty years, urban mobility has changed significantly. The number of leisure trips has risen, while the proportion of work-related trips has fallen. At the same time, new forms of mobility have developed, such as multi-residentiality, long-distance commuting, urban tourism and day-tripping. These changes have been accompanied by urban transformations such as urban sprawl and fragmentation. In this context, mobility is an issue for urban transport engineering and territorial development, par

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Urbanism

Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment. It is a direct component of disciplines such as urban planning, a profession focusing on the design and management of urban areas, and urban sociology, an academic field which studies urban life. Many architects, planners, geographers, and sociologists investigate the way people live in densely populated urban areas. There is a wide variety of different theories and approaches to the study of urbanism.

New Urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually influenced many aspects of real estate development, urban planning, and municipal land-use strategies. New Urbanism attempts to address the ills associated with urban sprawl and post-Second World War suburban development.

Sustainable urbanism

Sustainable urbanism is both the study of cities and the practices to build them (urbanism), that focuses on promoting their long term viability by reducing consumption, waste and harmful impacts on people and place while enhancing the overall well-being of both people and place. Well-being includes the physical, ecological, economic, social, health and equity factors, among others, that comprise cities and their populations.

Survey methodology

Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods". As a field of applied statistics concentrating on human-research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey data collection, such as questionnaire construction and methods for improving the number and accuracy of responses to surveys. Survey methodology targets instruments or procedures that ask one or more questions that may or may not be answered.

Urban design

Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban design considers 'bigger picture' issues of economic, social and environmental value and social design. The scope of a project can range from a local street or public space to an entire city and surrounding areas.

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