Regenerating Communities. New Life for a Local Railway: A Technological and Environmental Study
| Autor: | Maria Vittoria Corazza, Marco Pascucci, Sandro Imbastaro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Service (systems architecture)
Status quo media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:TJ807-830 Geography Planning and Development lcsh:Renewable energy sources 0211 other engineering and technologies Tram-train 02 engineering and technology tram-train electrification regeneration Management Monitoring Policy and Law Reuse 0502 economics and business Rural settlement Environmental planning lcsh:Environmental sciences media_common lcsh:GE1-350 050210 logistics & transportation Land use Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants tram–train 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning railway lcsh:TD194-195 TRIPS architecture Business Rural area |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 9 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 3693, p 3693 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12093693 |
| Popis: | Revamping abandoned railways is often associated with leisure functions and non-routine trips. When areas evolve from rural settlements to conurbations with mixed land use and high travel demand, the reuse of no-longer-operational rail services can prove to be appropriate to meet such new requirements. This is the case of an abandoned railway in central Italy, the Sangritana Line, whose rehabilitation could serve a former rural area, now under continuous development. The paper outlines operational features of the new service, starting from the available Sangritana infrastructure, in order to highlight the drivers and barriers associated with the reopening of operations. The goal is to provide scientific corroboration for similar feasibility studies and stress the relevance of rehabilitating railways in urban regeneration processes according to a vision called the Multiple Rs, which associates the new rail supply with the possibility of requalifying several components of the urban environment. To this end, along with the initial description of the status quo and the local constraints, the paper elaborates the methodology adopted for this feasibility study, the main operational findings, with a focus on the potential environmental benefits, and the implications according to the Multiple Rs approach. |
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