An Integrated Approach to Transportation and Land-Use Planning for the Analysis of Former Railway Nodes in Sustainable Transport Development: The Case of the Vasco-Navarro Railway
Date
2020-12-31Keywords
Sustainable development
Transport and land use
Multiaxial models
Non-motorized transport
Disused railway lines
Former railway nodes
Abstract
The disappearance of kilometers of railways that once structured their surrounding territory
has become an alarming issue in the last decades. These days, several disused railway infrastructures
have been converted into non-motorized transport infrastructures. Meanwhile, most of the railway
nodes have been abandoned or reused without consideration of the linear infrastructure. This paper
argues that former railway nodes can have potential in their surrounding environment and as
part of a non-motorized transport axis, i.e., to again be nodes of the former linear infrastructure.
Accordingly, the objective of the paper is to analyze the potential of disused railway nodes, focusing
on the possibilities they could offer in the area, and defining future approaches for more sustainable
development. For that purpose, relations between former railway nodes and their surrounding
environment are studied considering transport and land use in the non-motorized influence areas.
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