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Urban transportation planning
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Tiwari, Geetam |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Description | Urban transport systems and city patterns have a natural interdependency. Land-use patterns, population density and socioeconomic characteristics influence the choice of transport system; at the same time the presence of certain transport systems changes land accessibility and therefore land value, triggering a change in land-use pattern and city form. Therefore city and transport plans and policies prepared by the policy makers, experts and decision makers are expected to play an important role in influencing the future health of our cities. However, a large proportion of the urban populations in Asian and other low-income cities remain outside the formal planning process. Survival compulsions force them to evolve as self-organised systems. These systems rest on the innovative skills of people struggling to survive in a hostile environment and to meet their mobility and accessibility needs. Housing, employment and transport strategies adopted by this section of society are often termed as “informal housing, 2informal employment and informal transport”. Squatter settlements all over the world are called informal settlements because they are not part of the official plan. The conventional definition of informal – unofficial, illegal or unplanned – denies people jobs in their home areas and denies them homes in the areas where they have gone to get jobs. Transport solutions evolved by this section of society do not become part of official policy. Their existence is mostly viewed as creating problems for “normal traffic”. Formal plans have no place for informal transport. Therefore, most cities face a complex situation where investments are for formal plans, whereas the needs of a significant section of society are met by informal transport. Is this desirable or sustainable? Book Name: Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2017-0-68314-8&isbn=9781351004862&doi=10.1201/9781351004862-1&format=pdf |
| DOI | 10.1201/9781351004862-1 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2019-07-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport Transport Systems Formal Plans Informal Transport Transportation Planning Urban |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
