Sustainable mobility in Canadian cities: Towards an integrated measurement and understanding of the performance of land use and transport systems and their impacts on travel behavior

随着人们对高效、可持续和公平的交通网络需求的日益认识，交通领域正在发生重大变化。在这个快速发展的景观中，交通工程师被期望开发和采用新的方法来衡量交通网络的性能，同时考虑到他们实施的土地使用系统以及不断变化的生活方式和用户的偏好。我提出的研究项目旨在更好地理解、测量和模拟土地利用和交通系统的性能及其对旅行行为和满意度的影响，以便为加拿大可持续城市交通网络的发展做出贡献。为此，我打算(I)建立一个强大的跨学科研究小组，为加拿大的交通工程师和规划者提供改进的工具和方法，以支持综合土地利用和交通规划；（ii）培养高素质的工程师，使他们具备改造城市交通所需的技能和工具。我将讨论三个相互关联的研究目标，重点是加拿大的城市。首先，我将开发一个集成的R-ArcGIS工具来计算和可视化当地和区域的可达性（到达目的地的便利性），通过可持续的模式（步行，骑自行车和公共交通）在六个加拿大大中型大都市区。在提出的工具中，我将开发一种新的方法来模拟自行车的可达性。该工具还将用于将旅行行为作为可访问性的函数进行建模，从而实现基于可访问性的建模。其次，我将提出一种方法来确定蒙特利尔汽车司机使用可持续模式的障碍。通过大规模调查的设计和传播，进行空间因素和个人因素相结合的市场细分。最后，我将开发一种方法，利用大数据（智能卡和满意度调查）和亲自调查，评估蒙特利尔活跃和公共交通网络变化对旅行行为和满意度的影响。拟议的研究项目将为HQP的培训做出重大贡献，为两名博士和三名硕士学生提供足够的资金，他们将全职从事该项目，此外还为五名本科生提供研究实习资金。此外，研究议程将为加拿大城市提供新的方法和工具，以更好地规划主动和公共交通的投资，同时解决从业人员、交通当局和城市目前正在处理的几个关键问题，以设计加拿大城市高效、可持续和公平的交通网络。正如我过去所做的那样，我们的工作将通过会议和演讲传播给研究人员以及地方、国家和国际行动者。

The realm of transport is undergoing significant changes with the growing awareness regarding the need for efficient, sustainable, and equitable transport networks. In this rapidly evolving landscape, transport engineers are expected to develop and adopt new approaches to measure the performance of transport networks, while accounting for the land use systems in which they are implemented as well as the changing lifestyles and preferences of users. My proposed research program seeks to better understand, measure, and model the performance of land use and transport systems and their impacts on travel behavior and satisfaction, in order to contribute to the development of sustainable urban transport networks in Canada. To do so, I intend to (i) build a strong interdisciplinary research group that will provide transport engineers and planners in Canada with improved tools and methods to support integrated land use and transport planning, and (ii) train highly qualified engineers with the skills and tools required to transform urban mobility. I will address three interrelated research objectives, with a focus on Canadian cities. First, I will develop an integrated R-ArcGIS tool to calculate and visualize local and regional accessibility (the ease of reaching destinations) via sustainable modes (walking, cycling and public transport) in six large- and medium-size Canadian metropolitan regions. Within the proposed tool, I will develop a new methodology to model accessibility by bicycle. The tool will also be used to model travel behavior as a function of accessibility, thereby enabling accessibility-based modelling. Second, I will propose a methodology to identify the barriers to the use of sustainable modes among car drivers in Montreal. Through the design and dissemination of a large-scale survey, I will conduct a market segmentation that integrates both spatial and personal factors. Last, I will develop a methodology to assess the impacts of changes in active and public transport networks on travel behavior and satisfaction in Montreal, using big data (smart card and satisfaction surveys) and in-person surveys. The proposed research program will significantly contribute to the training of HQP by providing adequate funding to two PhD and three master students that will work full-time on this program, in addition to funding five bachelor students through research internships. Furthermore, the research agenda will provide Canadian cities with new methods and tools to better plan investments in active and public transport, while addressing several key questions that practitioners, transport authorities and cities are currently dealing with to design efficient, sustainable and equitable transport networks in Canadian cities. As I have done in the past, our work will be disseminated to researchers and to local, national and international actors through conferences and presentations.