Analyzing Transportation Logistics and Infrastructure Sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula

The Case of Portugal Mainland

Bibliographic Data

ID21601423
AuthorsJosé Manuel Naranjo-Gómez (0000-0001-7998-9154, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre), José Manuel Naranjo Gómez (Universidad de Extremadura), R A Castanho (0000-0003-1882-4801, WSB University, corresponding author), Ana Vulevic (0000-0001-5150-4477, VALORIZA-Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization Portalegre, Portugal)
Year2022
Volume30
Issue12
Pages2514-2536
Publication date2022-12-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Planning Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0965-4313 • E-ISSN: 1469-5944
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09654313.2021.2014789
OpenAlexW4200078474
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited31

Transportation is one of the most meaningful references of unsustainability in regional urban areas. This difficulty is stimulating urban planners and decision-makers to introduce the concept of sustainability into their policy design at multiple levels. Contextually, through exploratory tools, the present study aims to analyze the impacts over the socio-economic sphere that those new plans could bring to the region and the local populations of Portugal Mainland. Also, analyses of regional disparities in Portugal focused on the socio-economic aspects and analyses on territorial cohesion concept where indicators organized in policy-oriented territorial objectives and then combined with an analytical framework. Besides, the study especially intends to cover sustainable accessibility (also one of the components of territorial cohesion), which aims to help regional planners determine the inherent obstacles and design possible alternatives at the strategic planning level for sustainable regional transport and land-use arrangement. The study shows that exist inequalities in the distribution of absolute accessibility. Value of accessibility in category “very high” in 192 towns (68,57%) settlements, in the central, coastal territory along the dual carriageway and national road corridors, live 81,7% population. Nevertheless, the regional inequalities pattern did not vary considerably in Portugal's last decade of funding policies

Business · City region · Civil engineering · Economics · Economy · Environmental planning · Geography · Human settlement · Mainland · Population · Regional planning · Regional science · Sustainability · Urban planning · Engineering · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban and Freight Transport Logistics · Urban Transport and Accessibility

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