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Decoding Urban Archetypes: Exploring Mobility-Related Homogeneity among Cities

Behren, Sascha von ; Turek, Maximilian; Barthelmes, Lukas ORCID iD icon 1; Scholta, Hanna 2; Hansen, Frank; Kagerbauer, Martin 1; Eisenmann, Christine
1 Institut für Verkehrswesen (IFV), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
2 Technische Universität München (TUM)

Abstract:

To make cities more sustainable and livable and to achieve climate targets in transportation, cities around the globe must undergo sustainable transformations. However, disparities in initial conditions pose challenges when trying to implement these sustainable changes. Identifying these differences aids in the comprehension of future developments. In this study, we establish an international comparison by decoding the mobility-related characteristics of cities and determining urban archetypes. Using publicly accessible data, we analyze and classify 96 cities in different countries. Therefore, we utilize principal component analysis to simplify the data. The emerging components serve as input for segmentation. This approach yields nine unique urban archetypes, ranging from Well-Functioning and Ancient Hybrid Cities in Europe to Paratransit and Traffic-Saturated Cities in the southern hemisphere. Our results show that there is a significant advantage to using a multidimensional segmentation basis, which we identify in an extensive literature review. The result is a finer segmentation, which is especially clear for European cities that demonstrate four different clusters. ... mehr


Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000163035
Veröffentlicht am 16.10.2023
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Verkehrswesen (IFV)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2023
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2071-1050
KITopen-ID: 1000163035
Erschienen in Sustainability
Verlag MDPI
Band 15
Heft 19
Seiten Article no: 14231
Bemerkung zur Veröffentlichung Gefördert durch den KIT-Publikationsfonds
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 26.09.2023
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