Motorization is transforming cities and even rural areas of the developing world. The economic and social benefits are enormous. It provides individual flexible transportation in urban areas and reduced manual labor and improved market access in rural areas. In the longer term, however, motorization may stifle local development, increase pollution, and create unprecedented safety hazards. Witho...

Bogotá and Curitiba have become important references for public transportation in Latin America and have gained worldwide recognition for their technically and managerially innovative bus-based public transportation systems (Bus Rapid Transit, BRT). However, despite the huge success of these projects, most people living in these cities still use other modes for their daily trips. The main aim o...

Expanding public transportation is not enough to solve the urban sprawl problem resulted from an auto-orientation perspective. So urban planning experts paid attention to integrated and coordinated planning of urban development with public transportation, which reached to sustainable urban development. The purpose of this study is to review the researches in transit-oriented development (TOD) a...

In many cities in Europe, tolls are discussed as a means to reduce the amount of traffic during peak hours or in a city in general. But only few cities (e.g. Singapore, Bergen, Trondheim, Durham, London, Stockholm, Bologna, Roma) have been able to implement a toll scheme, as tolling requires substantial upfront investment and is likely to be an unpopular policy. Thus, many cities have an intere...

In many Asian metropolitan areas and large cities, transportation issues are major concerns among ordinary citizens and policy-makers alike. Road congestion is the most common issue, arising when traffic volumes exceed the free-flow design capacity of the facilities that channel traffic flows. Recognizing that excessive congestion imposes a cost on individuals, society, and the city as a whole,...

The interconnection and exchange of information is a basic requirement to enable Smart Cities. Such an interconnection must be realized within each domain (vertically) as well as among different domains (horizontally). Typical domains cover energy, automotive, health, intelligent buildings, transportation, manufacturing as well as the military domain. Therefore, horizontal and vertical informat...

sustainable road transportation requires integration with economic, social and environmental aspects of transportation. it depends on term and condition of each society. in the recent decades, transportation is growing fast in iran and isfahan follows this scenario. the aim of this study is to study the traffic, parking road properties of isfahan metropolitan area who are actively implementing ...

Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, I am Michael Replogle, and am pleased to testify today on behalf of Environmental Defense, a national organization with over 300,000 members nationwide, which I serve as Transportation Director. Our Living Cities program designs marketbased solutions to promote clean air, water and land in major metropolitan areas nationwide. Today I also represent the...

one of the main challenges facing urban planning in the late 20th century is the growth rate of traffic that influences access to sustainable urban development. one of the solutions proposed for traffic—as well as the economic, social, and environmental problems originating from it—in large cities has been the applying of traffic restrictions during certain times and in specific places in order...