Measuring and visualising 15-min-areas for fair CO2 budget distribution

The “MyFairShare” project develops fair CO 2 mobility budgets for individuals. Here, “fairness” mainly depends on the people’s location as everyone should be able to access all destinations necessary to perform everyday tasks. Therefore, a basic understanding about the accessibility of facilities to...

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Published inEuropean transport research review Vol. 16; no. 1; p. 16
Main Authors Krajzewicz, Daniel, Rudloff, Christian, Straub, Markus, Millonig, Alexandra
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 11.03.2024
Springer Nature B.V
SpringerOpen
Subjects
15 min cities
Accessibility
Automotive Engineering
Budgets
Carbon dioxide
Civil Engineering
CO2 budgets
Efficiency
Engineering
Land use
Original Paper
Population density
Public transportation
Regional/Spatial Science
Sustainable use
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Transportation
Travel time
15 min cities
Accessibility
CO
budgets
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Summary:The “MyFairShare” project develops fair CO 2 mobility budgets for individuals. Here, “fairness” mainly depends on the people’s location as everyone should be able to access all destinations necessary to perform everyday tasks. Therefore, a basic understanding about the accessibility of facilities to visit within an area is needed, regarding all activities that must be performed. Given this, the amount of emitted CO 2 is computed, assuming the use of sustainable modes while regarding reasonable ranges, i.e. a travel time of 15 min. In order to achieve this, a software system for computing this metric has been developed. It is based on open source applications and uses data that—besides public transport data in GTFS format—is freely available throughout Europe. This paper describes the method and presents the results of applying it to the project’s five Living Labs Berlin, Jelgava, London, Sarpsborg, and Vienna. The results show that besides population density, the possibility to use sustainable modes of transport highly depend on the land use mix, i.e. the allocation of facilities daily activities may be performed at in the vicinity of places of inhabitancy.
ISSN:1866-8887
1867-0717
1866-8887
DOI:10.1186/s12544-024-00638-0