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Sep 5, 2019 · Growing frustration with worsening congestion, delays, and costs of contemporary urban transportation has led to the search for the magic bullet – the golden set of technologies that will solve urban transport problems in one fell swoop.
- Andrew R. Goetz
- 2019
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.
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.
- 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 ...
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.
Feb 24, 2022 · Cities are seeking out innovative transport methods to reduce emissions and adapt to rising populations. About 60% of the world’s people are expected to live in towns or cities by 2030. Paris has cleared plans for an aerial tramway in its southeastern suburbs.
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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 world's...
