Characteristics, Impacts and Trends of Urban Transportation

Economic growth, urban development and the prosperity of automobile industry have driven a huge shift in global transportation from walking to public then automobiles. Private mobility has become an important part residents’ daily trips. Cities, especially automobile-dependent cities, face variety negative impacts such as increased commuting distances, higher congestion costs, traffic accidents, pollution including climate change, etc. Therefore, how balance relationship between people’s growing demand for private motorization with urbanization, modernization economic, social environmental costs brought about by them, so realize sustainable cities transportation, is main problem facing around world. The entry focuses on trends restrictions car ownership use, electrification intelligent systems (including shared mobility, customized buses Mobility Service/MaaS) transit-oriented (TOD). China, largest producer consumer, represents leads growth evolution other emerging countries.