Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility

Policy Directions : Global Report on Human Settlements 2013

• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 66
• ISBN_10: 0415723191
  ISBN_13: 9780415723190
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / Landscape , Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning , Architecture / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial , Business & Economics / Urban & Regional , Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development , Political Science / Public Policy / Regional Planning , Science / Environmental Science , Social Science / Sociology / Urban , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries , Transportation / General ,

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.