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- 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.
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Transportation affects health because of its connections to service access and climate change. Globally, 1.5 million people die from road transport — more than from HIV, malaria or tuberculosis. Canada had the fourth highest rate of traffic fatalities in 2009 among OECD countries. The most recent datashows that road traffic fatality in Canada conti...
Apart from the reasons above, a national public transportation system is necessary because its absence normalizes the oppression of already disadvantaged groups. In Western Canada, the tragedy of the highway of tearsoffers a cautionary tale. Between 1969 and 2011 an estimated 40 women, mostly Indigenous, disappeared or were murdered on Highway 16 i...
Although national public transportation is being taken seriously in some parts of the world, public transportation is often targeted by austerity-driven government cutbacks. In Canada, deregulation made intercity transportation a provincial jurisdiction in 1987, which led to public transportation cuts. Current concerns for climate justice, reductio...
- Urban Transportation at the Crossroads. Cities are locations having a high level of accumulation and concentration of economic activities. They are complex spatial structures supported by infrastructures, including transport systems.
- Automobile Dependency. Automobile use is related to a variety of advantages, such as on-demand mobility, comfort, status, speed, and convenience. These advantages jointly illustrate why automobile ownership continues to grow worldwide, especially in urban areas and developing economies.
- Congestion. Congestion occurs when transport demand exceeds transport supply at a specific point in time and in a specific section of the transport system.
- Mitigating Urban Congestion. The first assumption in mitigating congestion concerns if some trips are necessary, which is a decision left to the user.
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.
Jul 10, 2020 · The immediate impacts of the pandemic have underscored the critical importance of building redundancies into our urban transportation systems with flexible, low-cost options that can be easily relocated based on demand.
What is the future of urban mobility? By 2050 there could be 2.5bn cars roaming the planet and most of them will be concentrated in cities, the OECD has reported. Saudi Arabia, one of the...
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.
