Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility Abridged
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780415723190
Description: "Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for cars, with a limited number of cities improving public transport systems in a sustainable manner. However, a number of challenges faced by urban transport systems – such as greenhouse gas emissions, noise and air pollution and road traffic accidents – do not necessarily get solved by the construction of new infrastructure..."--Publisher description.