Oil Rich Countries and Sustainable Mobility: Challenges in Tabriz

Tabriz is a typical example of the medium sized and developing cities in oil rich countries. The city is a growing economic center and urban agglomeration of Iran where a number of transport improvements and policy challenges are ahead. The very low level of fuel prices coupled with the insufficient public transport has brought about road based transportation patterns particularly encouraging the private vehicle trips. Obviously, any timely attempt to re-arrange the fuel and car taxes in line with the public transport improvements will achieve better sustainable mobility aims. Therefore, this paper investigates the current transportation problems and further discusses the future policy challenges within a framework of sustainable mobility through utilizing the results of a preliminary survey conducted to evaluate the citizens’ perceptions and responses to the current policy making and planning issues in Tabriz.

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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Shakibaei, Shahin
  • Alpkokin, Pelin
  • Gunduz, Umut
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Maps; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 171-176
• Monograph Title: The State of the Art in the European Quantitative Oriented Transportation and Logistics Research. 14th European Working Group on Transportation; 26th Mini Euro Conference, and 1st European Scientific Conference on Air Transport
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 20
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fuel consumption; Mobility; Policy making; Sustainable development; Taxes; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01365235
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 20 2012 12:16PM