Asia has been experiencing very high population growth and urbanization as well as migration as discussed in previous section. Asian cities will witness a large population increase, which will have important implications for a variety of urban environmental issues, such as water supply and sanitation, waste and wastewater generation, urban infrastructures as well as mobility. This section prese...

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 goal of this work is to calculate the full costs of transportation for autos, trucks, and buses in the Twin Cities region for the years 1998 and 2020. Our midrange estimate is that the costs were $27 billion in 1998, and the costs will grow to $42 billion in 2020 ($9,000 and $11,200 in per capita terms, respectively). These estimates include monetary and nonmonetary costs to individuals, fi...

Communication technologies supply the blood for smart city applications. In view of the ever increasing wireless traffic generated in smart cities and our already congested radio access networks (RANs), we have recently designed a data transportation network, the vehicular cognitive capability harvesting network (V-CCHN), which exploits the harvested spectrum opportunity and the mobility opport...

The world’s population of people aged over 60 will double from 11% in 2006 to 22% by 2050. Even more dramatic will be the growth in the number of the very old. Between 1950 and 2050, the number of people over the age of 80 will grow from 14 million to 400 million worldwide. At the same time, the pace of urbanization continues unabated: by 2030 an estimated three in five people will be urban dwe...

This paper summarises the results from a questionnaire-based survey and follow-up discussions with traffic operations staff of various cities in the world. The questionnaire asked cities about their currently employed control systems as well as about their organization’s vision for the future. Data collected include details on traffic management techniques employed, if network monitoring is car...

The development of tourism is based on flow and studying a network can help to elucidate its mechanism operation. Transportation the path realize spatial displacement flow. This study used “Tencent migration” big data explore distribution characteristics rules in China, providing suggestions for tourism. results demonstrate that 361 cities studied be divided into three types: destination-orient...

In this paper, we propose to measure the extent of the influence of transportation systems on land use change. Using a set of high-resolution land use data for the Twin Cities metropolitan region, we estimate logistic regression models of land use change covering a 10-year period from 1990 to 2000. The models account for existing land use types, neighboring land uses, and transportation network...

This paper explores whether and to what extent wind discourages sustainable transportation mode choice, which includes riding public transportation, bicycling, and walking. A six month-long field study was carried out at four locations in San Francisco, a city that has been promoting sustainable transportation mode choice but that experiences high wind levels. It involved surveying pedestrians ...