A ‘sustainability window’ of urban form

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue , 2016, Pages 96-111

  Lohrey, Steffen ^a,b   Creutzig, Felix ^a,b  

^a MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Climate change; Co benefits; Modal share; Sustainable cities; Urban form; Urban transport

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INVESTMENTS; POLLUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

CO BENEFITS; MODAL SHARE; SUSTAINABLE CITIES; URBAN FORM; URBAN TRANSPORT;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION DENSITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84979737450     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2015.09.004     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Ahlfeldt, G.M., Redding, S.J., Sturm, D.M., Wolf, N., 2014. The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall, (No. w20354). National Bureau of Economic Research.
2. Anas, A., Arnott, R., Small, K.A., Urban spatial structure. J. Econom. Lit., 1998, 1426–1464.
3. Apte, J.S., Bombrun, E., Marshall, J.D., Nazaroff, W.W., Global intraurban intake fractions for primary air pollutants from vehicles and other distributed sources. Environ. Sci. Technol. 46:6 (2012), 3415–3423.
4. Arnott, R., Palma, A.d., Lindsey, R., Economics of a bottleneck. J. Urban Econom. 27:1 (1990), 111–130.
5. 2 emissions in England. Glob. Environ. Change 34 (2015), 13–21.
6. Batty, M., Urban Modeling. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. 2009, Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
7. Baur, A.H., Thess, M., Kleinschmit, B., Creutzig, F., Urban climate change mitigation in Europe: looking at and beyond the role of population density. J. Urban Plann. Dev., 140(1), 2013, 04013003.
8. Bell, M.L., Davis, D.L., Fletcher, T., A retrospective assessment of mortality from the London smog episode of 1952: the role of influenza and pollution. Environ. Health Perspect., 112(1), 2004, 6.
9. Bennett, D.H., McKone, T.E., Evans, J.S., Nazaroff, W.W., Margni, M.D., Jolliet, O., Smith, K.R., Defining intake fraction. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36:9 (2002), 207–216.
10. Bongardt, D., Creutzig, F., Hüging, H., Sakamoto, K., Bakker, S., Gota, S., Böhler-Baedeker, S., Low-carbon Land Transport: Policy Handbook. 2013, Routledge.
11. Bulkeley, H., Betsill, M.M., Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance, vol. 4, 2005, Psychology Press.
12. Cervero, R., The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry. 1998, Island press.
13. Creutzig, F., How fuel prices determine public transport infrastructure, modal shares and urban form. Urban Clim. 10 (2014), 63–76.
14. Creutzig, F., Evolving narratives of low-carbon futures in transportation. Transp. Rev., 2015, 10.1080/01441647.2015.1079277.
15. Creutzig, F., He, D., Climate change mitigation and co-benefits of feasible transport demand policies in Beijing. Transp. Res. D 14 (2009), 120–131.
16. Creutzig, F., McGlynn, E., Minx, J., Edenhofer, O., Climate policies for road transport revisited (I): evaluation of the current framework. Energy Policy 39:5 (2011), 2396–2406.
17. Creutzig, F., Mühlhoff, R., Römer, J., Decarbonizing urban transport in european cities: four cases show possibly high co-benefits. Environ. Res. Lett., 7, 2012, 044042.
18. Creutzig, F., Baiocchi, G., Bierkandt, R., Pichler, P.-P., Seto, K.C., Global typology of urban energy use and potentials for an urbanization mitigation wedge. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 112:20 (2015), 6283–6288.
19. Deakin, E., 1992. Urban transportation congestion pricing: effects on urban form. In: Board, T.R. (Ed.), Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion. volume 2: Commissioned Papers, Transportation Research Board, vol. 242, pp. 334–355.
20. Echenique, M.H., Hargreaves, A.J., Mitchell, G., Namdeo, A., Growing cities sustainably. J. Am. Plann. Assoc. 78:2 (2012), 121–137.
21. Ewing, R., Cervero, R., Travel and the built environment: a meta-analysis. J. Am. Plann. Assoc. 76:3 (2010), 265–294.
22. Expatistan.com, November 2014. < expatistan.com>.
23. Frank, L.D., Pivo, G., Impacts of mixed use and density on utilization of three modes of travel: single-occupant vehicle, transit, and walking. Transp. Res. Rec., 1994 44–44.
24. Fujita, M., Urban Economic Theory. first ed., 1989, Cambridge University Press.
25. Gehl, J., Cities for People. 2013, Island Press.
26. Gordon, P., Kumar, A., Richardson, H.W., Congestion, changing metropolitan structure, and city size in the United States. Int. Regional Sci. Rev. 12:1 (1989), 45–56.
27. Grubler, A., Bai, X., Buettner, T., Dhakal, S., F.D., Ichinose, T., Keirstead, J., Sammer, G., Satterthwaite, D., Schulz, N., Shah, N., Steinberger, J., Weisz, H., Urban Energy Systems. 2012, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA (The International Institute for 650 Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg Austria 2012, Ch. Urban Energy Systems, pp. 1307–1400).
28. Gubins, S., Verhoef, E.T., Dynamic bottleneck congestion and residential land use in the monocentric city. J. Urban Econom. 80 (2014), 51–61.
29. Heald, C.L., Jacob, D.J., Park, R.J., Alexander, B., Fairlie, T.D., Yantosca, R.M., Chu, D.A., Transpacific transport of Asian anthropogenic aerosols and its impact on surface air quality in the United States. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos., 111(D14), 2006 n/a–n/a.
30. Heppenstall, A.J., Crooks, A.T., See, L.M., Batty, M., Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems. 2011, Springer Science & Business Media.
31. I.E. Agency, World Energy Outlook, Tech. rep., International Energy Agency, 2008.
32. Kahn Ribeiro, S., Figueroa, M.J., Creutzig, F., Kobayashi, S., Dubeux, C., Hupe, J., Energy end-use: transport. The Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future, 2012, IIASA, Cambridge University Press, Laxenburg, United Kingdom and New York, NY, 25 USA., 575–648 (Chapter 9).
33. Karppinen, A., Kukkonen, J., Elolähde, T., Konttinen, M., Koskentalo, T., Rantakrans, E., A modelling system for predicting urban air pollution: model description and applications in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Atmos. Environ. 34:22 (2000), 3723–3733.
34. Kenworthy, J., Laube, F., The Millennium Cities Database for Sustainable Transport. 2001, International Association of Public Transport (UITP).
35. Kickhöfer, B., Nagel, K., 2012. Using high-resolution first-best tolls as a benchmark for policy evaluation: the case of air pollution costs. In: Proceedings of the Kuhmo Nectar conference on transportation economics. Also VSP WP, pp. 12–06.
36. Kickhöfer, B., Nagel, K., Towards high-resolution first-best air pollution tolls. Networks Spatial Econom., 2013, 1–24.
37. Lin, J., Pan, D., Davis, S.J., Zhang, Q., He, K., Wang, C., Streets, D.G., Wuebbles, D.J., Guan, D., China's international trade and air pollution in the United States. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 111:5 (2014), 1736–1741.
38. Marshall, J., Mckone, T., Deakin, E., Nazaroff, W., Inhalation of motor vehicle emissions: effects of urban population and land area. Atmos. Environ. 39:2 (2005), 283–295.
39. Masson, V., Marchadier, C., Adolphe, L., Aguejdad, R., Avner, P., Bonhomme, M., Bretagne, G., Briottet, X., Bueno, B., de Munck, C., Adapting cities to climate change: a systemic modelling approach. Urban Clim. 10 (2014), 407–429.
40. Nelson, J.P., Residential choice, hedonic prices, and the demand for urban air quality. J. Urban Econom. 5:3 (1978), 357–369.
41. Newman, P.W.G., Kenworthy, J.R., Gasoline consumption and cities. J. Am. Plann. Assoc. 55:1 (1989), 24–37.
42. Newman, P., Kenworthy, J., Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence. 1999, Island Press.
43. Nowak, D.J., Crane, D.E., Stevens, J.C., Air pollution removal by urban trees and shrubs in the United States. Urban Forest. Urban Green. 4:3–4 (2006), 115–123.
44. O. Organisation For Economic Development and Cooperation. OECD Metropolitan Explorer, 2014. < http://measuringurban.oecd.org/>, (last accessed December 2, 2014).
45. Parry, I.W., Walls, M., Harrington, W., Automobile externalities and policies. J. Econ. Lit., 2007, 373–399.
46. Portney, K.E., Berry, J.M., Participation and the pursuit of sustainability in U.S. cities. Urban Affairs Rev. 46:1 (2010), 119–139.
47. Prud'homme, R., Bocarejo, J.P., The London congestion charge: a tentative economic appraisal. Transp. Policy 12:3 (2005), 279–287.
48. Pucher, J., Buehler, R., Making cycling irresistible: lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. Transp. Rev. 28:4 (2008), 495–528.
49. ROCOL, 2000. Road Charging Options for London: A Technical Assessment. Tech. rep., Mayor of London.
50. Seto, K.C., Reenberg, A., Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era. 2014, MIT Press.
51. Sims, R., Schaeffer, R., Creutzig, F., Cruz-Núñez, X., D'Agosto, M., Dimitriu, D., Figueroa Meza, M.J., Fulton, L., Kobayashi, S., Lah, O., McKinnon, A., Newman, P., Ouyang, M., Schauer, J.J., Sperling, D., Tiwari, G., Transport. Edenhofer, O., Pichs-Madruga, R., Sokona, Y., Farahani, E., Kadner, S., Seyboth, K., Adler, A., Baum, I., Brunner, S., Eickemeier, P., Kriemann, B., Savolainen, J., Schlömer, S., von Stechow, C., Zwickel, T., Minx, J.C., (eds.) Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
52. Solow, R.M., Congestion, density and the use of land in transportation. Swed. J. Econom. 74:1 (1972), 161–173.
53. Stocker, T., Qin, D., Plattner, G.-K., Tignor, M., Allen, S., Boschung, J., Nauels, A., Xia, Y., Bex, V., Midgley, P., (eds.) Technical Summary, 2013, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 33–115.
54. Straszheim, M., The theory of urban residential location. Handbook Regional Urban Econom. 2 (1987), 717–757.
55. Thompson, T.M., Rausch, S., Saari, R.K., Selin, N.E., A systems approach to evaluating the air quality co-benefits of us carbon policies. Nat. Clim. Change, 2014.
56. TomTom International B.V., TomTom Traffic Index 2014. < http://www.tomtom.com/de_de/trafficindex/> (last accessed December 2, 2014).
57. UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 Revision, Tech. rep., United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, 2012.
58. Vardoulakis, S., Fisher, B.E., Pericleous, K., Gonzalez-Flesca, N., Modelling air quality in street canyons: a review. Atmos. Environ. 37:2 (2003), 155–182.
59. Vickrey, W.S., Congestion theory and transport investment. Am. Econom. Rev. 59:2 (1969), 251–660.
60. Viguié, V., Hallegatte, S., Rozenberg, J., Downscaling long term socio-economic scenarios at city scale: a case study on paris. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Chang. 87:0 (2014), 305–324.
61. Walters, A.A., The theory and measurement of private and social cost of highway congestion. Econom.: J. Econom. Soc., 1961, 676–699.
62. Wegener, M., Overview of land use transport models. Handbook in Transport Transport, Geography and Spatial Systems, vol. 5, 2004, Pergamon/Elsevier, Oxford, 127–146.
63. Wheaton, W.C., Land use and density in cities with congestion. J. Urban Econom. 43:2 (1998), 258–272.
64. Woodcock, J., Edwards, P., Tonne, C., Armstrong, B.G., Ashiru, O., Banister, D., Beevers, S., Chalabi, Z., Chowdhury, Z., Cohen, A., Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport. Lancet 374:9705 (2009), 1930–1943.
65. Yang, I.A., Holgate, S.T., Air pollution and lung health: an epilogue. Respirology 18:1 (2013), 3–4.