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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
- Automobile Dependency
- Congestion
- Mitigating Urban Congestion
- The Urban Transit Challenge
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 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.
Oct 27, 2021 · There are three specific areas where the World Bank can enhance its support to countries in managing their urban spatial growth through urban transport. The World Bank should adopt an integrated framework that links determinants of urban expansion, including urban transport, with strategies for managing it.
May 24, 2021 · Despite the rise of sustainable transportation on the global agenda, the 2020 UN Sustainable Development Goals Report states only half the world’s urban population has convenient access to public transportation, according to 2019 data from 610 cities in 95 countries. The report measures access as the share of the population within 500 metres ...
urban transportation remains a problematic area even though many cities are trying to tran-sition away from fossil fuel use in motor vehicles, and encouraging more transit, cycling, and walking. What is to be done?
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 opportunities.
