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Aug 17, 2024 · Urban transportation is evolving at a breakneck pace, reshaping how people move and interact in cities worldwide. The rapid growth of urban populations has led to unprecedented challenges in mobility, forcing city planners and policymakers to rethink traditional approaches to public transport.
Sep 5, 2019 · While progress is being made to introduce more renewable energy into electricity production, buildings and industry, urban transportation remains a problematic area even though many cities are trying to transition away from fossil fuel use in motor vehicles, and encouraging more transit, cycling, and walking.
- Andrew R. Goetz
- 2019
Adverse impacts from transportation noise on physical and mental health are inequitably distributed and, except near airports and segments of urban Interstates, have been largely unaddressed. Fortunately, noise levels will also decline with the transition to electric drive.
Jun 27, 2022 · The pandemic has accelerated a shift to remote working, starved train and bus operators of revenue, and undercut the central reason for the design of many transport systems: taking millions of...
Jul 27, 2021 · Urban freeways and transit infrastructure projects — often paid for in large part by federal transportation funds — have disproportionately displaced and isolated people living in minority neighborhoods, tearing at the fabric of vibrant communities and compounding issues of equity and access to jobs and essential services.
Mar 7, 2022 · Here are five policies that deserve top priority as cities strive to get ahead of future calamities: Rebuild mass transit and boost multimodality, electrify transportation, encourage walking and cycling, build climate change-resilient infrastructure and use emission-reducing technology.
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Feb 24, 2022 · How are cities changing transport systems to handle rising emissions and growing urban populations? We look at Paris, Oslo, Tokyo, London and Buenos Aires.
