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dc.contributor.authorOke, Olufolajimi
dc.contributor.authorAboutaleb, Youssef Medhat.
dc.contributor.authorAkkinepally, Arun P
dc.contributor.authorLima De Azevedo, Carlos Miguel
dc.contributor.authorHan, Yafei
dc.contributor.authorZegras, P. Christopher
dc.contributor.authorFerreira Jr, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorBen-Akiva, Moshe E
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-28T21:44:57Z
dc.date.available2020-08-28T21:44:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.date.submitted2019-04
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126845
dc.description.abstractUrban mobility significantly contributes to global carbon dioxide emissions. Given the rapid expansion and growth in urban areas, cities thus require innovative policies to ensure efficient and sustainable mobility. Urban typologies can serve as a vehicle for understanding dynamics of cities, which exhibit high variability in form, economic output, mobility behavior, among others. Yet, typologies relevant for sustainable urban mobility analyses are few, outdated and not large enough in scope. In this paper, we present a new typologization spanning 331 cities in 124 countries. Our sample represents 40% of the global urban population and contains the most recent data from 2008 to date. Using a factor analytic and agglomerative clustering approach, we identify 9 urban factors and 12 typologies. We discuss the implications of this new framework for researchers and planners and investigate the relationships between mobility and environmental sustainability indicators. Notably, we show an immediate application of the urban typologies to better understanding travel behavior and also describe their usage for detailed large-scale simulation in representative prototype cities for insights into sustainable future mobility policy pathways. Our data and results are publicly available for further exploration and will serve as a foundation for future analyses toward desirable urban and environmental outcomes. ©2019en_US
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/AB22C7en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licenseen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceIOP Publishingen_US
dc.titleA novel global urban typology framework for sustainable mobility futuresen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationOke, Jimi B. et al., "A novel global urban typology framework for sustainable mobility futures." Environmental Research Letters 14, 9 (September 2019): no. 095006 doi. 10.1088/1748-9326/ab22c7 ©2019 Author(s)en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planningen_US
dc.relation.journalEnvironmental Research Lettersen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2019-10-22T15:27:56Z
dspace.date.submission2019-10-22T15:27:59Z
mit.journal.volume14en_US
mit.journal.issue9en_US
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