Improving urban mobility

Over the past decade, there has been a shift in emphasis in many countries from overcoming congestion to improving mobility and accessibility. Improving urban mobility means focusing on the movement of people and goods (rather than the movement of vehicles). The objective is to create a highly-efficient, flexible, responsive, safe and affordable urban mobility system with the least amount of traffic, travel and effort while ensuring environmental sustainability. This means giving priority to public transport, goods vehicles, pedestrians and non-motorised vehicles. It means providing attractive and efficient public transport services and reducing the demand for motorised travel, by car or motorcycle. It also means fully exploiting what already exists in terms of road space and services before investing in new ones. This paper describes current approaches to improving urban mobility primarily in Europe (but also in Brazil and India) and the lessons learned from these experiences.

• Authors:
  • Midgley, P
• Conference:
  • Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management (AITPM) National Conference, 2011
  • Location: Melbourne Victoria, Australia
  • Date: 2011-8-10 to 2011-8-11
• Publication Date: 2011-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 39p
• Monograph Title: AITPM 2011 national conference: linking communities: growing liveability and accessibility, 10-11 August 2011, Melbourne, Victoria

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Planning; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: International comparison; Selection; Urban transport
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• ATRI Terms: Transport facilities
• ITRD Terms: 8531: Case study; 9105: Mobility (pers); 1154: Network (transport); 744: Public transport; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; 1145: Transport mode
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01354696
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ARRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 24 2011 7:55AM