How to Turn the Urban Mobility Into a Real and Sustainable Model?

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How to Turn the Urban Mobility into a Real and Sustainable Model? Live and use a secure, healthy and sustainable city is not science fiction - face the challenge! The City is a complex highly interrelated system. Currently half of the global population lives in cities, the environment that offers multiple advantages and also many problems such as noise, air pollution, traffic jams, energy wastage, over-consumption of public space and so on. And of course, constant urban expansion and unstoppable trend towards the establishment of residence in the city, the reason why we are facing a social and economic phenomenon that must be studied attentively. The first things with which we associate the urban environment are immediacy, speed, easiness and comfort to obtain certain things. Many important processes that impact the citizen take place in the city. Is it really so fast and easy to obtain and reach things in a city? Just think how much time, energy and money we lose when going to work, doing some paperwork, driving the children to the school, buying, walking in a park or going to the concert. There are large displacements around and inside the city, as a consequence, we waste fuel and lose our time and patience… all this is translated into economic loss and unnecessary stress generation (which later will impact our professional and personal life and also, considering an important population group facing stress situations, in Public Health). The urban mobility is not a demand of a capricious citizen, but a social right. To preserve it we must change the mobility paradigm. We are saying that the global market of infrastructures and services of urban mobility, besides relied on modern technologies to be considered smart, is to be sustainable. The real challenge is to ensure that the urban displacements allow us to save time and energy through the public transport
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