A New Tool for Assessing Sustainable Mobility at the Neighborhood Level: Methodology and Application

The objective of the current work is the construction of an assessment tool capable of evaluating the level of sustainability, specifically from a transportation standpoint, at the neighborhood level. The tool comprises various quantitative indicators, some derived from existing neighborhood assessment models, while others have been developed specifically by the authors. Each component of the tool is designed to evaluate a single aspect of the transportation supply system: 1) vehicular motorization; 2) walking mobility; 3) bicycle mobility; 4) transit. We validate the proposed model through its application to assess how the sustainability of the transportation supply system in a neighborhood in Cagliari, a mid-sized city in Italy, changes after a structural intervention involving the introduction of a new light rail line.