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The EU’s long-term outlook for transport in the EU and its associated emissions demonstrates that the 2050 decarbonization goals for the transport sector require not only incremental changes but a systematic change (EEA Transitions towards a more sustainable mobility system. EEA technical report, Copenhagen, 2016). The intensive problems that many urban areas are facing caused by the operation of the transport system such as traffic congestion, air pollution, degradation of the environment, etc. require a paradigm shift in the planning process. Banister (Transp. Policy 15:73–80, 2008) said that “transport planning has a crisis of identity and its future is uncertain, particularly as the increasing complexity of cities and societies make simple approaches to analysis, which views transport congestion as the problem and transport as the solution”. Transport should have a basic role in achieving sustainable development. Towards this direction sustainable urban transport planning is a challenge.

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I would like to thank Professor Pitsiava-Latinopoulou Magdalini of Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki whose experience in urban transport planning contributed to this work.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Fotini Kehagia

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  1. Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Serres, Greece

    Athanasia Karakitsiou

  2. Industrial Logistics, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Athanasios Migdalas

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    Stamatina Th. Rassia

  4. Deparment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

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Kehagia, F. (2017). Sustainable Mobility. In: Karakitsiou, A., Migdalas, A., Rassia, S., Pardalos, P. (eds) City Networks. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65338-9_6

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