Vietnam is Back on (Rail) Tracks
Following the launch of an important reform program that began in the 1980s, Vietnam has been experiencing remarkable economic development that has turned the country from one of the poorest ...
Street Elements – Greenery
The introduction of greenery and vegetation requires great coordination among all consultants and designers throughout the different project phases. Vegetation is one of the few elements that is able to ...
Sheikh Zayed Road
E11 is the longest road in the UAE: it connects the entire country crossing six of the seven Emirates, from the Western border with Saudi Arabia to the Northern one ...
Minor Interventions for the Largest Metropolis in Europe: Moscow
How to deliver a complete set of transport strategies for a complex megacity like Moscow? First of all, it has to be flexible. There are no solutions that can be ...
Pedestrian Level Of Service (PLOS)
Pedestrian Level Of Service (PLOS) is being increasingly used to assess safety and comfort levels across entire cities, providing effective indications on priority of interventions. With the increase of car-dependence, ...
Vertical Transportation: An Integral Building Mobility Component
A detailed analysis of pedestrian circulation in complex buildings needs to integrate the Vertical Transportation (VT) component. For this purpose, Systematica has recently focused on VT, exploring further state-of-art analytical ...
Walking on Water (Lake Iseo)
The Floating Piers, the last conceptual work by the Land Art Artists Christo and Jeanne Claude on Lake Iseo was opened to the public for less than three weeks in ...
Moving in the Greatest Gathering of the World
Planning and design of a new development in the holy city of Mecca has no equal in the world from all perspectives, and, in particular, from both cultural and social ...
Junction Spacing: the case of Al Wasl Rd.
Block sizes, junctions spacing and the density of intersections have the greatest impact on the public realm and the pedestrian behavior. Al Wasl Road is a great reference to see ...
Making Walking Pleasant (Even in Dubai!)
Walking in Dubai is certainly not the primary transport mode, however the efforts done in the last couple of years show that there is room for great improvements. Although Dubai ...
Analysing User Behaviour in Parking Areas as a Key Step for Designing Better Ones
Analysing existing parking areas and structures has proven to carry a great amount of data on mobility dynamics and user behaviour that can be only revealed through appropriate survey methods. ...
How Mobility Can Contribute to Accomplish the Sustainability Goals?
An exemplary sustainable mobility strategy is planned in the early stages of the planning and design process. Analysing the territory, considerations of environment and energy related aspects as well as ...
Space Syntax and network theories applied to planning
Since the late 1970s, network theories are used to study, understand and plan cities. Very few urban theories succeed in describing our cities in such robust and convincing manner like ...
Masdar City and Its Mobility Paradigm 10 Years Later
Throughout the world, cities are currently facing, to different extents, a variety of global challenges, such as uncontrolled growth, urban degradation, globalization, spatial segregation, energy consumption, social exclusion, environmental impact ...
Tehran Opens Up for a Change in Its Planning and Design Culture
As Tehran grows, mobility demand steadily increases: a change in travel modes can be a great opportunity. A few cities in the world represent better than Tehran the ambitions of ...