Bicyclist are increasingly shaping the picture of urban traffic. With regard to guided navigation through urban areas, navigation systems that are designed for this type of traffic participants do not offer a satisfying solution. Voice instructions are often perceived as annoying and far too detailed. In addition, the usage of headphones to hear these instructions reduces the hearing and localization of environmental sounds significantly. Visual information on the other hand, draws the attention too much away from the main traffic situation. This effects the ability to react to and interact with other traffic participants and the surrounding and results in a feeling of insecurity.This thesis investigates how acoustic and vibro-tactile signals can be used to provide cyclists with necessary navigation instructions while maintaining the ability to perceive ambient sounds and keep attention to the environment. In addition, the focus is placed on the experience of guided navigation with a non-visual, multi-sensory system.

Cette thèse aborde le défi de la conception des systèmes de mobilité urbaine. Elle vise à développer un modèle d’expérience-voyageur pour faciliter, dans une démarche de conception, le diagnostic des problèmes de voyage et améliorer la pertinence des modèles de transport pour les voyageurs. En combinant les points de vue de la conception de l’expérience-utilisateur et du transport, elle contribue à approfondir la compréhension de comment les voyageurs vivent leur voyage et particulièrement des problèmes qu’ils rencontrent. Le premier axe d’investigation est lié à la modélisation de l’expérience-voyageur pour alimenter un diagnostic pertinent et riche des problèmes de voyage. Dans un deuxième axe, les voyageurs sont impliqués, par une démarche de théorie ancrée, pour identifier les problèmes qu’ils rencontrent lors de l’utilisation de systèmes de mobilité urbaine au moyen de stimuli appropriés.Un troisième axe introduit des attributs subjectifs de voyage dans des modèles de transport afin d’améliorer leur précisionCette recherche utilise la recherche-action comme méthodologie. Elle combine revue de littérature dans les disciplines de conception et de transport, quatre observations terrain, quinze interviews en profondeurs aves des voyageurs et experts en transport, cinq ateliers de problématisation, et deux expérimentations, dans une amélioration cyclique des résultats. Les différentes utilisations du modèle ont permis un diagnostic approfondi de trois systèmes de mobilité urbaine (train de banlieue, bus à la demande, navette sur voie dédiée) et la mise au point d'attributs centrés sur le voyageur pour un modèle d’optimisation et une simulation multi-agents qui ont été testé par une enquête de plus de 450 participants. / This thesis addresses the challenge of designing urban mobility systems. It aims at developing a traveler experience model to help diagnose travel problems in a design approach and improve the relevance of transportation models for travelers. By combining the views of user-experience design and transportation, it helps to deepen the understanding of how travelers experience their journey and especially the problems they face. The first axis of investigation is related to the modeling of the traveler experience to feed a relevant and rich diagnosis of travel problems. In the second axis, travelers are involved, through a grounded theory approach, to identify the problems they encounter when using urban mobility systems, using appropriate stimuli.The third axis introduces travel subjective attributes into transport models to improve their accuracy.This research used action research as a methodology. It combines literature review in design and transportation disciplines, four field observations, fifteen in-depth interviews with transport travelers and experts, five problem-solving workshops, and two experiments, in a cyclical improvement of results. The various uses of the model have led to an in-depth diagnosis of three urban mobility systems (suburban train, on-demand bus, dedicated shuttle) and the development of traveler-centric attributes for an optimization model and a multi-agent simulation that was tested by a survey of over 450 participants.

Avec l’augmentation progressive de la population dans les grandes villes, comme Paris, nous prévoyons d’ici 2050 une augmentation de 50% du trafic routier. En considérant les embouteillages et la pollution que cette augmentation va générer, on voit clairement la nécessité de nouveaux système de mobilité plus durables, comme le covoiturage, ou plus généralement toute la mobilité partagée. En parlant de mobilité partagée, ce n’est pas seulement le partage de trajets de personnes qui ont le même itinéraire au même temps, elle inclut aussi les marchandises.Cette thèse aborde le défi de la synchronisation des flux de passagers et de marchandises dans les systèmes de mobilité urbaine et elle vis à développer des méthodes d’optimisation pour que cette synchronisation dans la mobilité partagée soit faisable. Plus précisément, elle aborde les questions de recherche suivantes:*Q1: Quelles sont les variantes des systèmes de mobilité partagée et comment les optimiser?*Q2: Comment synchroniser les déplacements de personnes et quels gains cette synchronisation peut-elle générer?*Q3: Comment combiner les flux de passagers et de fret et quels sont les avantages attendus?*Q4: Quels sont les effets de l'incertitude sur la planification et l'exploitation de systèmes de mobilité partagée?Dans un premier temps, nous étudions les différentes variantes des systèmes de mobilité partagée et nous les classifions en fonction de leurs modèles, caractéristiques, approches de résolution et contexte d'application. En se basant sur cette revue de littérature, nous identifions deux problèmes de mobilité partagés, que nous considérons en détails dans cette thèse et nous développons des méthodes d'optimisation pour les résoudre.Pour synchroniser les flux de passagers, nous étudions un modèle de covoiturage en utilisant les véhicules autonomes, personnels et partagés, et des points de rencontre où la synchronisation entre passagers peut avoir lieu. Pour cela, une méthode heuristique en deux phases est proposée et une étude de cas sur la ville de New York est présentée.Ensuite, nous développons un modèle d’optimisation qui combine les flux de passagers et de marchandises dans une région urbaine. Le but de ce modèle est d’utiliser les capacités disponibles sur une ligne de transport fixe pour transporter les passagers et des robots transportant des petits colis à leurs destinations finales en considérant que la demande de passagers est stochastique. Les résultats obtenus montrent que les solutions proposées par ces deux modèles peuvent conduire à une meilleure utilisation des systèmes de transport dans les régions urbaines. / The rise of research into shared mobility systems reflects emerging challenges, such as rising urbanization rates, traffic congestion, oil prices and environmental concerns. The operations research community has turned towards more sharable and sustainable systems of transportation. Although shared mobility comes with many benefits, it has some challenges that are restricting its widespread adoption. More research is thus needed towards developing new shared mobility systems so that a better use of the available transportation assets can be obtained.This thesis aims at developing efficient models and optimization approaches for synchronizing people and freight flows in an urban environment. As such, the following research questions are addressed throughout the thesis:*Q1: What are the variants of shared mobility systems and how to optimize them?*Q2: How can people trips be synchronized and what gains can this synchronization yields?*Q3: How can people and freight flows be combined and what are the intended benefits?*Q4: What impacts uncertainty can have on planning and operating shared mobility systems?First, we review different variants of the shared mobility problem where either (i) travelers share their rides, or (ii) the transportation of passengers and freight is combined. We then classify these variants according to their models, solution approaches and application context and We provide a comprehensive overview of the recently published papers and case studies. Based on this review, we identify two shared mobility problems, which we study further in this thesis.Second, we study a ridesharing problem where individually-owned and on-demand autonomous vehicles (AVs) are used for transporting passengers and a set of meeting points is used for synchronizing their trips. We develop a two-phase method (a pre-processing algorithm and a matching optimization problem) for assessing the sharing potential of different AV ownership models, and we evaluate them on a case study for New York City.Then, we present a model that integrates freight deliveries to a scheduled line for people transportation where passengers demand, and thus the available capacity for transporting freight, is assumed to be stochastic. We model this problem as a two-stage stochastic problem and we provide a MIP formulation and a sample average approximation (SAA) method along with an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) algorithm to solve it. We then analyze the proposed approach as well as the impacts of stochastic passengers demand on such integrated system on a computational study.Finally, we summarize the key findings, highlight the main challenges facing shared mobility systems, and suggest potential directions for future research.

This dissertation is a response to the negative trends in urban mobility, which led many authors to conclude on the need for a new approach to personal transport in the cities. The work has creative character, but in the conceptual level, it is taking into account the specific needs of sustainable urban mobility and build on the existing innovative transport solutions. The result of dissertation is a vehicle vision, understood as an element of urban mobility that respects the character of the zones of free movement of persons, but it is also suitable for transport over longer distances.

[pt] Fixos e fluxos. A grande cidade é um fixo enorme, cruzado por fluxos enormes. O que acontece quando a ordem desses fixos e fluxos é subvertida? Qual a espacialidade de uma cidade cuja ocupação de seu território e circulação não sejam guiados e estabelecidos pela lógica da funcionalidade e pelos imperativos da circulação do valor? Em junho de 2013 cerca de 388 cidades brasileiras foram palco de manifestações populares cujo estopim foi o aumento da tarifa do transporte público. No entanto, a demanda extrapolava a reivindicação pela revogação do aumento. A demanda era também pelo direito à cidade, direito à livre circulação e acesso a tudo o que a cidade oferece. O Movimento Passe Livre, articulador dos protestos que ficaram conhecidos como Jornadas de Junho, coloca a questão urbana, da mobilidade e também da disputa do espaço nas cidades na pauta política do país. O movimento pensa na cidade, na sua ocupação e circulação. Uma circulação inclusiva, uma circulação que permite o desvendamento, o uso e a apropriação da cidade. Uma imaginação urbana que subverte sua lógica de ocupação espacial em um grau de utopia que não vem do urbanismo e da arquitetura. O objetivo geral desse estudo é contrapor diferentes ideias de cidade tendo como fim a definição da noção de cidade subjacente nas propostas do Movimento Passe Livre. / [en] Fixed and flows. The big city is a huge fixed, crossed by huge flows. What happens when the order of these fixed and flows is subverted? What is the spatiality of a city in which the occupations of its territory, as well as its circulation, are not established by the logics of functionality and imperatives of movement of value? On June, 2013, around 388 Brazilian cities were the theater of riots in which the main focus were the public transportations tariff raise. However, the claims have overcome the revocation of such raises. The claims were also for rights to the city, free circulation and access to whatever the city may offer. Movimento Passe Livre – MPL, the main perpetrator of the riots, which were also called Jornadas de Junho puts the urban question of mobility and also the space competition at the Country s political agenda. MPL approaches the city, its occupation and circulation. An inclusive circulation, that allows the unveiling, usage and appropriation of the city. An urban idealized view, subverting the logics of occupation in such an utopia that does not belong to urbanism or architecture. The main objective of this work is to interpose different city concepts aiming to define the city envisaged by MPL.

The rapid growth and development of cities have brought new mobility challenges, which the emergence of micro-mobility solutions, such as Personal Mobility Vehicles, has addressed. However, the increase in the use of these vehicles has also led to a rise in the number of accidents and injuries due to the inadequate use of protective equipment. Consequently, the sales of safety apparel have increased (Smith, 2022), creating a more competitive market where marketing strategies have become essential to successfully sell the product. This study aims to investigate the purchase behavior of safety apparel products, using the Theory of Planned Behavior as a framework to analyze the factors that affect the intentions of consumers to buy safety apparel. The research considered both product and societal factors that motivate or discourage the purchase of safety apparel. The results of the study revealed that the characteristics of the safety apparel product were the most significant factor that motivated the purchase. Consumers preferred discreet aesthetics and dark colors; low prices were also important factors. In addition, fashion, the influence of specialists in stores and on social networks, and the role of authorities were also found to be significant factors. However, the ability of buyers to carry out this behavior was subject to product compatibility, affordability, and availability. The findings of this research will help manufacturers and retailers to develop better marketing strategies that will increase the effectiveness of campaigns and enhance the motivation, importance, and priority to buy safety apparel. The study's contributions also have implications for other organizations that market safety-related products or want to promote their use. Overall, this study sheds light on the understanding of safety apparel customers and aims to contribute to improving marketing strategies in the safety apparel industry and promoting the safety culture among city commuters.

Connected and automated vebicles (CA Vs) will shape traffic patterns in the future and greatly influence urban mobility. A particular challenge for CAVs is to anticipate the movements of other road users. This applies especially to micromobility vehicles (bicycles, smaU electric vehicles), whose traffic behaviour is difficult to predict and shaped from individual behaviour. The increasing coexistence of CAVs and other, conventionally driven modes of transport thus has a growing impact as well as multiple consequences for urban structures and public space. The following fundamental trends will shape the way people live together in cities in the coming years: 1. increasing share of CAVs and micromobility, 2. renaissance ofthe mixed and liveable city, 3. changes in mobility behaviour and the appreciation of public space ( especially due to climate change and the Covid 19-pandemic), as weil as 4. technical upgrading of infrastructure. These parallel developments will lead to both conflicts and opportunities for cities.[from Introduction]

[pt] A mobilidade urbana faz parte de um complexo sistema de infraestrutura, provocando problemas insustentáveis tais como congestionamento, poluição sonora, poluição atmosférica em áreas densamente urbanizadas, como centros urbanos, e resulta em prejuízos no conforto ambiental urbano. Na busca de uma sustentabilidade urbana, ações favoráveis são necessárias à mobilidade urbana e o conceito de mobilidade ativa surge a favor da priorização do deslocamento das pessoas através de meios de transportes não motorizados. Nesse contexto, leva ao objetivo da dissertação, que no atual cenário da mobilidade urbana nas vias do bairro de São José, na cidade do Recife, é identificar medidas para melhorar as condições de acessibilidade e de conforto ambiental urbano para o incentivo da mobilidade ativa. Tais vias pertencem ao Sítio Histórico da cidade, no conjunto de Zonas Especiais de Patrimônio Histórico-Cultural (ZEPH). Através do levantamento de campo, a metodologia aplicada tende a identificar as ameaças e oportunidades para incentivar a mobilidade ativa observando as condições de acessibilidade nos quesitos de rota acessível, as condições de conforto ambiental urbano referentes aos índices de ruídos, emissões de material particulado e conforto térmico, expondo os dados qualitativos e quantitativos obtidos. A pesquisa busca apresentar a mobilidade ativa como uma ação sustentável favorável à redução dos impactos socioeconômicos, ambientais e nas possíveis melhorias da acessibilidade para caminhabilidade nas vias históricas do bairro de São José, priorizando o pedestre e incentivando a mudança de comportamento do seu deslocamento diário, além de usufruir o bairro como ambiente patrimonial e cultural. / [en] Urban mobility is part of a complex infrastructure system, causing unsustainable problems such as congestion, noise pollution, air pollution in densely urbanized areas, such as urban centers, and results in damage to urban environmental comfort. In the search for urban sustainability, favorable actions are necessary for urban mobility and the concept of active mobility emerges in favor of prioritizing the displacement of people through non-motorized means of transport. In this context, it leads to the aim of the dissertation, which in the current scenario of urban mobility on the streets of the São José neighborhood, in the city of Recife, is to identify measures to improve accessibility conditions and urban environmental comfort to encourage active mobility. Such roads belong to the Historic Site of the city, in the set of Special Zones of Historical-Cultural Heritage (ZEPH). Through the field survey, the applied methodology tends to identify the threats and opportunities to encourage active mobility, observing the conditions of accessibility in terms of an accessible route, the conditions of urban environmental comfort related to noise rates, emissions of particulate matter and comfort thermal, exposing the qualitative and quantitative data obtained. The research seeks to present active mobility as a sustainable action that favors the reduction of socioeconomic and environmental impacts and possible improvements in accessibility for walkability in the historic streets of the São José neighborhood, prioritizing pedestrians and encouraging a change in their daily commute behavior, in addition to enjoying the neighborhood as a heritage and cultural environment.

The use of big data in urban transport planning is unstoppably gaining momentum and with the help of strategic business partnerships and technological advancements (e.g. transport apps, mobile device location tracking, data processing) the new mobility models are evolving towards an integrated and multimodal urban mobility: Mobility as a Service (MaaS). From the generation of data by Telecom companies to transport end users, a broad range of stakeholders are involved in the data market. This tighter with the call for sustainable alternatives in passenger traffic highlights that business relations are complex, and that businesses in this data market also have long-range transport objectives. This Master Thesis develops a stakeholder analysis of the network of actors related to mobile data and users. It explores the city of Stockholm as case study to identify who are the market players (i.e. companies) and what are their respective roles and business models. Based on sectoral expertise interviews and literature and website review, a three-cluster organization of data suppliers, data facilitators and data end users set the structure to evaluate stakeholder relationships. Data trading opens a debate on which Telecoms not only address raw data processing methods but also reach less accurate mobility outcomes (e.g. trips per person, OD matrices, travel distance, average speed), or, on the other hand, which delegate the added-value service to third parties. The analyzed actor network outstands frictions between the public and private sector and, certainly, when processed data steps on the transport industry (e.g. PT operators, infrastructure managers, private service operators (Uber), passengers). This is an institutional barrier that prevents a full MaaS implementation in the Stockholm region. The challenge resides on revising actor network gaps (i.e. new roles of MaaS Operators or Collecting Agents) and easy flow data transactions to encourage integrated modal choice in transport apps offerings. Despite exiting MaaS initiatives (e.g. UbiGo) in Stockholm and little research in data-based stakeholders, this is a first approximation of a stakeholder map to an immature and innovative research area with great potential in the future. / Införandet av Big Data i stadsplanering har oundvikligen börjat ta fart. Med hjälp av strategiska affärspartnerskap och tekniska framsteg (t.ex. transportappar, spårning av mobila enheter, databehandling) har nya mobilitetsmodeller utvecklats i strävan efter en integrerad och multimodal mobilitet i städerna: Mobilitet som tjänst (MaaS). Från ny datagenerering till att transportera slutanvändare deltar ett brett spektrum av intressenter på en marknad som styrs av tillgång till data. Uppmaningen till hållbara alternativ i passagerartrafik uppmärksammar också komplexa aktörsrelationer som relaterar datahantering till långsiktiga transportmål. Denna uppsats består av en intressentanalys av aktörsnätverket inom mobilitetsdata och undersöker Stockholms stad som en fallstudie för att identifiera vilka som är marknadsaktörer (företag) och respektive roller och affärsmodeller. Baserat på intervjuer av experter inom branschen, litteratur- och webbplatssökning skapas tre kluster av organisationer, för att utvärdera intressentrelationer. Dessa är datalämnare, datatillämpare och slutanvändare. Datahandel öppnar upp en debatt om hur telekomföretag använder nya databehandlingsmetoder men når mindre exakta mobilitetsresultat (t.ex. resor per person, OD-matriser, reseavstånd, genomsnittlig hastighet) eller, å andra sidan, som delegerar mervärdestjänsten till tredje part. Det analyserade aktörsnätverket utestänger friktion mellan den offentliga och privata sektorn, och denna barriär förhindrar en fullständig MaaS-implementering när det gäller bearbetade datasteg inom transportbranschen (t.ex. PT-operatörer, infrastrukturförvaltare, privata serviceoperatörer) i Stockholmsregionen. Utmaningen ligger i att omarbeta luckor mellan aktörsnätverk (MaaS Operator eller Collecting Agent) och förenkla dataflödestransaktioner för att uppmuntra integrerat modalval i transportapps-erbjudanden. Trots existerande MaaS-initiativ (t.ex. UbiGo) och en mindre databaserad intressentforskning är detta en första approximation till ett omoget och innovativt forskningsområde med stor potential inför framtiden. / El uso de big data en la planificación del transporte urbano está ganando un impulso imparable, y de la mano de asociaciones empresariales estratégicas y avances tecnológicos (aplicaciones de transporte, seguimiento de ubicación en dispositivos móviles, procesamiento de datos), los nuevos modelos de movilidad están evolucionando hacia una movilidad urbana integrada y multimodal: Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Desde la generación de datos (empresas de telefonía) hasta un sector transporte como usuario, muchas son las partes interesadas que participan en el mercado de datos. Esto, unido a la llamada de nuevas alternativas sostenibles en el tráfico de pasajeros, hace destacar que las relaciones empresariales son complejas y que los negocios en este mercado de datos también tienen objetivos en un transporte de largo alcance. Esta tesis desarrolla un stakeholder analysis de la red de actores relacionados con los datos móviles y utiliza Estocolmo como caso de estudio para identificar a estos agentes (empresas) y sus respectivos roles y modelos de negocios. Basado ​​en entrevistas a expertos y trabajos de investigación, el análisis organiza los actores en tres grupos proveedores de datos, facilitadores de datos y usuarios finales de datos, siendo esta la estructura base para estudiar sus relaciones. Así mismo, este intercambio de datos abre un debate alrededor de si las empresas de telefonía desarrollan métodos para procesar los datos, aunque los resultados de movilidad sean menos precisos (viajes por persona, matrices OD, distancia de viaje, velocidad promedio) o, por otro lado, si el servicio de dar valor añadido se delega a terceros. Ciertamente, el análisis de la red de actores destaca fricciones entre el sector público y el privado y, en el momento que la industria del transporte ya maneja estos datos procesados (operadores de transporte, gestores de la infraestructura, empresas tipo Uber, etc), esta barrera institucional es la que mayormente impide una implementación total de MaaS en Estocolmo. El desafío está revisar posibles “huecos” en la red de actores (Operador MaaS o un Agente Cobrador) así como un fácil flujo en las transacciones de datos para alentar una elección modal integrada en la oferta de las aplicaciones de transporte. Así, a pesar de la escasa investigación en quienes son los actores que hacen negocio con datos telefónicos, y las de pocas iniciativas (efectivas) en MaaS ( UbiGo) hacen de este proyecto una primera aproximación a un área de investigación que aún es inmadura e innovadora, pero con un gran potencial en el futuro.

[pt] É senso comum na literatura sobre mobilidade urbana, a abordagem dos aspectos positivos das infraestruturas de mobilidade, pela possibilidade que elas têm de conectar os espaços urbanos. Afim de promover um debate crítico acerca desses elementos, a dissertação visa apontar a dimensão da segregação das Infraestruturas de mobilidade, explorando dois aspectos: 1. o da segregação socioespacial, numa escala de cidade e metrópole, abordando a dicotomia centro-periferia, e 2. da segregação da forma urbana, numa escala de bairro, seja pela presença de tecidos urbanos dispersos e fragmentados, como por novas e diferentes escalas dos conjuntos edificados no entorno de algumas infraestruturas de mobilidade. Para tal, a pesquisa ancora-se no objeto da Avenida Brasil, importante via expressa construída na década de 40, que cruza a cidade do Rio de Janeiro de uma ponta a outra, servindo como um dos eixos estruturantes na ocupação da zona oeste. Em sua extensão, encontram-se diversos modos de ocupações, relacionados a diferentes dimensões de segregação. Uma análise comparativa, baseada em três padrões de ocupações distintos de habitações de baixa renda e seu entorno tem, por fim, o objetivo de medir os impactos da segregação em determinados trechos. / [en] It is common sense in the urban mobility, literature to address the positive aspects of mobility infrastructures because of their ability to connect urban spaces. In order to promote a critical debate about these elements, the dissertation aims to point out the dimension of segregation on mobility infrastructures, exploring two aspects: that of socio-spatial segregation, on a city and metropolis scale, addressing the center-periphery dichotomy, and the segregation of the urban form, on a neighborhood scale, either by the presence of scattered and fragmented urban fabrics, as well as by new and different scales of buildings built around the mobility infrastructures. Then, the research is based on the object of Avenida Brasil, an important expressway built in the 1940s, which crosses the city of Rio de Janeiro from one end to the other, serving as one of the structuring axes in the occupation of the west zone. In its extension, there are several modes of occupations, related to different dimensions of segregation. A comparative analysis, based on three distinct occupational patterns of low-income housing and its surroundings, is ultimately intended of to measure the impacts of segregation on stretches.