Great cities and their traffic

A rapidly growing proportion of the world's population is living in cities with steadily deteriorating transport systems. This book is about the transport problems, policies and plans of the world's great metropolises. It is a study mainly of thirty cities, chosen from every continent in the hope of obtaining a fair picture of the metropolitan transport problem and how it is being tackled throughout the world. The sample contains ten cities from Europe (london, paris, hamburg, bremen, copenhagen, goteborg, stockholm, vienna, athens and istanbul), nine from north America (new york, boston, toronto, detroit, chicago, denver, salt lake city, san francisco and los angeles), seven from asia (teheran, karachi, calcutta, Singapore, hong kong, tokyo and manila), two from Australia (Sydney and Melbourne), one from South America (bogota), and one from africa (lagos) . The reason for confining the study to large cities was the author's belief (a) that the transport problems of a city are related to its size, and (b) that cities of the same size everywhere have broadly the same problems. For a comparative study there is more interest in a comparison of cities of similar size, albeit situated in different parts of the world, than of cities of very different sizes within the same country.

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• Authors:
  • Thomson, J M
• Publication Date: 1978

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 344P

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Crashes; Economics; Environment; Management; Parking; Pedestrians; Public transit; Traffic; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Africa; Asia; Australia; Canada; Europe; Melbourne (Australia); South America; Sydney (Australia)
• ATRI Terms: Crash; Environment; Management; Parking; Pedestrian; Public transport; Town planning; Traffic; Transport economics; Urban area
• ITRD Terms: 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01438750
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0575021462
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 24 2012 9:50PM