Integration urban land use planning with transportation planning: an evaluation toward sustainable transportation for the holy city of Karbala.

Indicators for Sustainable Transportation Planning

work of Abraham and Hunt (1, 2). PECAS combines concepts from traditional Walrasian (general equilibrium) economics with random utility theory. Random utility theory permits the representation of heterogeneous goods and actors with heterogeneous tastes in which the prices of goods vary by zone. The implementation of discrete choice theory by the use of logit equations also permits partial utili...

Teaching Integrated Land Use–Transportation Planning

Urban Transportation and Land Use

This chapter is an introduction to the economics of the connection between urban transportation and land use. The nature of the transportation system strongly influences the patterns of land use in an urban area. Indeed, the long-run histories of urban areas sometimes are identified with the dominant mode of transportation of the time; the age of rail, the age of the automobile, and so on. Supp...

The Three C’s of Urban Transportation Planning

The need for continuing, comprehensive, urban transportation planning on a cooperative basis among all levels of governmental units is emphasized by the growing importance of transportation as a major segment of our economy. Transport facilities have linked our nation together socially, economically, and politically. As our national popula­ tion and economic activity increase in the future, so ...

Strategic planning of urban transportation system based on sustainable development dimensions using an integrated SWOT and fuzzy COPRAS approach

Today, urban transportation has attracted urban planners’ and researchers' attention because of air and noise pollution problems associated with it. In Shahrkord city in Iran, no plans have been made for sustainable transportation, and the available poor transportation infrastructure is not responsive to the growing population of the city. This issue has inflicted the city with serious problems...