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Environmental Friendly Transport Interchanges: Active Travel Accessibility and Policy

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Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (RelStat 2018)

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This paper focuses on active travel accessibility and the required actions to achieve a satisfying level of non-motorized access to urban interchanges. To this end, a systematic literature review was conducted, related to active travel policy measures and actions, as well as to measures aiming at the promotion of walking and cycling and the improvement of access to public transport terminals. This process was necessary in order to identify good practices and successful interventions implemented in Europe, but also to indicate potential legal, operational and infrastructure gaps and bottlenecks. Based on the above, the public transport system of Riga was investigated in terms of legislation, infrastructure, safety and space availability, addressing active travel accessibility to and from the main urban interchanges: Riga International Coach Terminal, Riga Central Railway Station and Riga Passenger Port Terminal. The critical assessment of the literature review findings and the analysis of the Riga transport system facilitated the drafting of recommendations for stakeholders and decision makers, who wish to put together action plans geared towards tackling the issue of active travel accessibility at urban interchanges.

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This paper is based on the research and work that has been conducted in the framework of the ALLIANCE project (http://alliance-project.eu/), which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The authors would like to thank both the consortium of the project and the European Commission.

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  1. Traffic, Transportation and Logistics Laboratory, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, 38334, Volos, Greece

    Vissarion Magginas, Eftihia Nathanail, Giannis Adamos & Maria Tsami

  2. Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Lomonosova Street 1, Riga, 1019, Latvia

    Irina Yatskiv (Jackiva) & Evelina Budilovich (Budiloviča)

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  1. Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Riga, Latvia

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    Irina Yatskiv (Jackiva)

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Magginas, V., Nathanail, E., Adamos, G., Tsami, M., Yatskiv (Jackiva), I., Budilovich (Budiloviča), E. (2019). Environmental Friendly Transport Interchanges: Active Travel Accessibility and Policy. In: Kabashkin, I., Yatskiv (Jackiva), I., Prentkovskis, O. (eds) Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication. RelStat 2018. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 68. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12450-2_55

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