Alexandra Delgado publishes a new article in the "Revista Ciudad y Territorio Estudios Territoriales (CyTET)"

Source:  nebrija.com

Professor Alexandra Delgado, principal researcher of the Research Group Architecture and Urban Planning before Social, Economic and Territorial Transformations (At-the-oUTSET), has published a new article in volume 53, number 208, 2021, in the Journal Ciudad y Territorio Estudios Territoriales (CyTET), one of the most prestigious journals in our country in Urban Planning.

This article has been carried out within the framework of the research on urban and territorial sustainability and its measurement through indicators of the Nebrija-Santander Chair in Sustainable Transport Technologies. The article is entitled Territorial transformation and freight transport in the Metropolitan Region of Madrid: towards new sustainability strategies. It deals with territorial transformation at the intermediate scale in the paradigmatic case of the Community of Madrid. The new economy and metropolitan employment and their relationship with the new metropolitan spatial form entail certain territorial dynamics and impacts. For this reason, they are considered spaces of centrality in logistics and goods transport. Both issues are related to the integration of data on transport, energy and CO2 emissions in the metropolitan space, with the ultimate aim of searching for new possible futures.

Delgado's work shows how territorial transformations have a singular space of representation in metropolitan areas in the development of their role as spaces of agglomeration, consumption and proximity. This has repercussions on the territorial deployment of a series of infrastructures, where those related to the transport of goods are of interest due to their function. If in the analysis of the Spanish national framework, the strong growth of infrastructures is even greater than the increase in the internal mobility of goods, the Metropolitan Region of Madrid shows a differentiated profile, with an even greater increase in the transport of goods than in the occupation of artificial land, which has been significant. The decline in rail freight transport compared to road transport has had an impact on CO2 emissions and makes it necessary to consider new sustainability strategies.