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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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- Urban Transportation at The Crossroads
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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. The larger a city, the greater its complexity and the potential for disruptions, particularly when this complexity is not effectively managed. Urban product...
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. When given a choice and the opportunity, most individuals will prefer using an automo...
Congestion can be perceived as an unavoidable consequence of the usage of scarce transport resources, particularly if they are not priced. The last decades have seen the extension of roads in urban areas, most of them free of access. Those infrastructures were designed for speed and high capacity, but the growth of urban circulation occurred at a r...
In some areas, the automobile is the only mode for which adequate transportation infrastructures are provided. This implies less capacity for using alternative modes such as transit, walking, and cycling. At some levels of density, no public infrastructure investment can be justified in terms of economic returns. Longer commuting tripsin terms of a...
As cities continue to become more dispersed, the cost of building and operating public transportation systems increases. For instance, as of 2021, about 205 urban agglomerations had a subway system, the vast majority of them being in developed economies. Furthermore, dispersed residential patterns characteristic of automobile-dependent cities make ...
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.
Jun 16, 2021 · A 2019 study found that almost one million urban Canadians are at risk of “transportation poverty” because lack of reliable public transportation separates people from economic...
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.
May 24, 2021 · Five SDG targets are directly related to the transport sector, addressing road safety (target 3.6), energy efficiency (target 7.3), sustainable infrastructure (target 9.1), urban access (target 11.2), and fossil fuel subsidies (target 12.c). Many others are indirectly related.
Despite some changes to our travel habits because of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobility is still a major problem in urban areas. Cities are responsible for half of road vehicle emissions, which leads to health problems and thousands of deaths each year.
