Warren, James P;
Gonzalez Gonzalez, Adrian;
Ortegon-Sanchez, Adriana;
Peña Díaz, Jorge;
Morris, Emily;
Cazanave Macías, Joiselen;
(2022)
Walking in Havana, Cuba.
In: Kotzebue, Julia R, (ed.)
Towards Sustainable Transport and Mobility.
(pp. 117-134).
Hamburg University Press: Hamburg, Germany.
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Abstract
Walking pedestrians account for nearly half of all daily trips in Havana. Walking provides many positive and sustainable benefits, including those linked with accessibility, health and energy conservation, but until recently, transport and urban planners have paid relatively little or less attention to the walking environment. Havana is an exceptional case among island cities in many ways and one outstanding feature is the high level of walking with 46 % of all trips carried out by pedestrians. The use of the bicycle accounts for another 1.8 % as a sustainable form of mobility. In six other Latin American cities walking and biking taken together account for many less trips resulting in a range of values from 32 % to 40 % of all trips, in Barranquilla, Curitiba, Guadalajara, Salvador, Recife and Belo Horizante, respectively (Hidalgo & Huizenga, 2013, figure 6, p 70). The high values of walking as a share of total trips means that more emphasis should be placed on creating better walking environments.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | Walking in Havana, Cuba |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-943423-96-9 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15460/hup.261.2022 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15460/hup.261.2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | The work including all its parts is protected by copyright. The work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0, https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en). Excluded from the above license are parts, images and other third party material unless otherwise noted. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of the Americas |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193534 |
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