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- This paper is an overview of the problems and solutions facing urban transportation in North America including deficiencies in the present systems, relative use of urban transportation modes, the transit rider, the peak hour problem, the willingness of the public to abandon their automobiles and use mass transit, mobility for those without cars, energy needs, air pollution, and land use planning.
trid.trb.org/view/219040URBAN TRANSPORTATION IN NORTH AMERICA: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
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May 15, 2023 · Urban centers would grow more clogged with traffic as more commuters get behind the wheel. This would increase both air pollution and carbon emissions in metro areas. Indeed, a widespread shift...
Jun 25, 2021 · A new analysis of a half-century of transportation patterns in U.S. cities shows how the share of transit commuters has plunged in most — but not all — metro regions since 1970.
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- The Current State
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- A Failure of Policy and Planning
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- Politics and Public Perception
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Public transportation in the US just isn’t keeping up with that in other countries or with the needs of average Americans. Between solo drivers and carpools, three-quarters (75%) of US commutes by car. As rents rise and urban areas continue to sprawl, Americans, especially the working poor, spend more time commuting and more money on carsand insura...
Public transit is beneficial for our society and our planet. It reduces the use of fossil fuels and cuts climate emissions - especially when we’re using electric options. It can also reduce congestion, noise, and air pollution. Public transit is sometimes described as an equalizer, making it easier for people of all ages, socioeconomic strata to ac...
From 1890 to 1930 “streetcar suburbs”flourished as wealthy urbanites moved to multi-family mixed-use buildings in places like Denver, Des Moines, Los Angeles, and Boston. Most of the homes in these areas were within a five to ten minute walk from a streetcar stop which would take them into the nearest urban center. There are some claims that Americ...
Low ridership is sometimes given as a rationale for not investing in public transport. But when transport doesn't make sense, people won’t ride it. The Brookings analysis in Chicago highlights one common commute, which would take 20 minutes by car and 60 minutes on public transit. According to Bloomberg, this poor design is often coupled with unrel...
While in many parts of the world, public transport is seen as an essential utility, the US tends to treat it as social welfare. This is reinforced by the fact that poorly functioning public transit systems are often used only by those who don’t have any other choice. Because these systems aren’t seen as useful to the general public, they become div...
To increase ridership, we need to make public transit easier, cheaper, and more comfortable. Experts say that (electric!) buses are the way to go. They’re cheaper and easier to purchase and put into place than complex infrastructure projects like subways. Thoughtful design using best practicessuch as understanding commuter preferences, coupling bus...
Jul 20, 2020 · However, American public transit infrastructure is crumbling and struggling to modernize. A comparison between public transportation networks construction costs in US megacities and their international counterparts raises concerns about how we spend our money.
- Yuzhi Gao
Jun 25, 2021 · Just 5 percent of workers now get to work by bus or train nationwide, compared with almost 9 percent a half century ago. Most people are driving instead. This trend is partly the product of the federal government’s decision to keep land-use development planning and transportation separate.
Apr 7, 2024 · Transport in America is having a crisis moment. You can see it in the headlines — from the debacle at Boeing, through to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge, to the fact that...
Nov 30, 2023 · Unlike many global peers, American public transportation agencies are struggling to reach pre-pandemic ridership levels. Transit systems in Dublin and Vancouver are now moving roughly as many people as they did before COVID-19, but passenger trips in the Boston and Washington, D.C. regions are still down 24% and 19%, respectively.
