Urban Transport Planning

As environmental awareness grows, people are becoming increasingly concerned about the pollution caused by cars. At the same time, congestion is slowly bringing traffic to a halt in the major cities, and transport planning is becoming increasingly controversial. As our own needs seem to be outgrowing our transport systems there is some doubt as to the wisdom of transferring this system directly to Third World countries. Harry Dimitriou offers an analysis of this problem and suggests some more appropriate solutions for the future. Part I provides an outline and critique of the Urban Transport Planning (UTP) process and its derivatives from its inception in the USA in the mid-1950s and its subsequent application to other industrialized nations. In Part II, Dimitriou examines the effectiveness of transferring the UTP process to Third World countries and argues for a more appropriate approach. Drawing from the information in Parts I and II, the author concludes that different development circumstances warrant different urban planning approaches and suggests a more appropriate concept of transport planning for developing countries.
This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and researchers in urban and regional planning, geography and development.