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A Review of the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility of Workers by Industries

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  • Julio César dos Santos

    (Centre for Territory, Environment, and Construction (CTAC), University of Minho, 4710057 Braga, Portugal)

  • Paulo Ribeiro

    (Centre for Territory, Environment, and Construction (CTAC), University of Minho, 4710057 Braga, Portugal)

  • Ricardo Jorge Silva Bento

    (Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD), University Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5000801 Vila Real, Portugal)

Abstract

The evolution and growth of cities present considerable challenges to the promotion of sustainable mobility, namely in commuting trips. In the present and recent past, many industries and companies of the economy’s productive sector have had to move as far as possible from urban areas, to minimize the impact of their activities on people’s health and quality of life. In more dispersed and low-density territories, working and residential areas are very far from each other, and there is typically poor public transport service and a lack of cycling networks for commuting purposes. This scenario encourages the use of private automobiles, not only as a necessity but also often as an obligation, making the mobility system nearly unsustainable. Therefore, it has become clear that companies can play an important role in promoting more sustainable mobility by reducing car use on commuting trips and by offering employees clean and more efficient transport alternatives to promote workers’ well-being and quality of life. Through an extensive literature review, a selection of scientific articles in the last 13 years was analyzed and discussed. The results highlighted that the location of industrial areas, the supply of public transport, the usage of active modes, and shared mobility systems are key factors to reduce car usage in workers’ commuting trips. Therefore, any sustainable mobility strategies that companies adopt will minimize the respective negative externalities, helping promote more environment-friendly ways of transportation, accessibility, social equity, and inclusion in workers’ communities. This justifies the need and urgency for the development of specific sustainable mobility plans oriented for companies/industries, instead of addressing this as just another element of a conventional urban mobility plan. Since this mobility represents a high volume of trips, repeated according to very regular patterns, it must be sustainability-oriented, allowing the improvement of system, trip, and vehicle efficiency.

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  • Julio César dos Santos & Paulo Ribeiro & Ricardo Jorge Silva Bento, 2023. "A Review of the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility of Workers by Industries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-18, May.
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