Departmental Papers (ESE)
Abstract
The 20(th) century witnessed revolutionary developments in transportation technology with major impacts on the form and character of cities. Progress in increasing mobility has brought many benefits as well as serious problems, particularly in deterioration of livability and sustainability. Increase in auto ownership led to serious problems of chronic traffic congestion. Attempts to rebuild cities to provide full accommodation of private cars have led to serious problems of auto dependency and deterioration of cities. Experiences from recent decades have shown that urban transportation is much more complex than usually realized. Livable and sustainable cities require policies that lead to creation of a transportation system consisting of coordinated public transit and private cars, and encourages pedestrian environment and efficient, sustainable development. Great need for better understanding of the complex problems in implementing incentives and disincentives aimed at achieving intermodal balance is emphasized Brief descriptions of cities which lead in achieving such livable conditions is followed by a summary of lessons and guidelines for the future.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
2008
Publication Source
Thermal Science
Volume
12
Issue
4
Start Page
7
Last Page
17
DOI
10.2298/TSCI0803007V
Copyright/Permission Statement
This article is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Keywords
urban transportation systems, intermodal balance, individual equilibrium vs social optimum, livability and sustainability of cities, urban transportation policies
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Date Posted: 08 December 2016
This document has been peer reviewed.