The expansion of metropolitan areas globally has had an impact on the daily life of its residents through the increase in the distances they must travel to carry out their daily activities, which affects their quality of life and, at the same time, the sustainability of these territories. However, additional questions must be raised: Beyond the territorial structure, are there other characteristics of the urban built environment that determine the spatial behaviour of people? Can these territories be perceived differently by their residents, giving place to different patterns of mobility? Are there differences according to the individual profile of the residents? If these factors are determinant, how do they interact? In order to answer these questions, this research aims to understand the configuration of the spatial dimension of daily mobility in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona. The main hypothesis of this thesis points that the space used by residents in metropolitan areas is influenced by the combination of different factors such as the characteristics of the built environment, cognitive processes and individual characteristics of people. To achieve this, new data sources obtained from Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will be used, which allow to obtain highly detailed time-space information on the spatial behaviour of people as has never been before. This doctoral thesis is based on four case studies, in the form of scientific articles in indexed international journals, which explore the effect of different spatial behaviour conditioning factors. The results obtained can inform future urban planning strategies aimed at reducing the spatial extent resulting from the daily mobility patterns of residents in metropolitan areas.
La dimensión espacial de la movilidad cotidiana. Una aproximación multiescalar en la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona
Vich Callejo, G. (Author). 29 Mar 2019
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis