Abstract
Achieving sustainable mobility in urban areas means to reconcile environmental protection with social well-being and economic development. These targets include reducing the negative impacts from transport, including pollution, noise and congestion, while ensuring affordable, accessible and safe mobility, without affecting the living conditions of future generations [1, 2].
To measure how sustainable mobility is achieved we need to settle a number of indicators [3]. However, the assessment methods of transport policies more often use time and cost indicators rather than environmental ones [4].
The approach adopted to analyze transport sustainability is to develop the socio-environmental account of transport means for each specific city or region [5]. This integrated approach considers all transport externalities in a comparative way and is a good tool for planning taken into account social fairness [6–8]. We have used these concepts making the travelers transport account of Madrid. In this account, we have worked with social costs like a way for analyzing the sustainable transport.
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Monzón, A., Fernandez, A., Jorda, P. (2009). Environmental Costs Account: A Base for Measuring Sustainability in Transport Plans. In: Rauch, S., Morrison, G., Monzón, A. (eds) Highway and Urban Environment. Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3043-6_3
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