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NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN TRANSPORTATION

K Orski

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This paper discusses the changing environment of urban transportation and the principal issues that are likely to influence its future evolution. Three trends are suggested as playing a key role in shaping the future directions of urban transportation: (1) a de-emphasis of expensive public works in favour of policies that encourage better management and more efficient utilization of existing investment; (2) a change in perspective that recognizes the need for competition in the delivery of public transportation services and encourages the growth of decentralized, community-level transportation systems, funded locally and run by private operators; and (3) a growing public willingness to divorce the notion of automobile use from the notion of automobile ownership, leading to many new innovative forms of automobile based transportation. (TRRL)

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This paper discusses the changing environment of urban transportation and the principal issues that are likely to influence its future evolution. Three trends are suggested as playing a key role in shaping the future directions of urban transportation: (1) a de-emphasis of expensive public works in favour of policies that encourage better management and more efficient utilization of existing investment; (2) a change in perspective that recognizes the need for competition in the delivery of public transportation services and encourages the growth of decentralized, community-level transportation systems, funded locally and run by private operators; and (3) a growing public willingness to divorce the notion of automobile use from the notion of automobile ownership, leading to many new innovative forms of automobile based transportation. (TRRL)

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This paper discusses the changing environment of urban transportation and the principal issues that are likely to influence its future evolution. Three trends are suggested as playing a key role in shaping the future directions of urban transportation: (1) a de-emphasis of expensive public works in favour of policies that encourage better management and more efficient utilization of existing investment; (2) a change in perspective that recognizes the need for competition in the delivery of public transportation services and encourages the growth of decentralized, community-level transportation systems, funded locally and run by private operators; and (3) a growing public willingness to divorce the notion of automobile use from the notion of automobile ownership, leading to many new innovative forms of automobile based transportation. (TRRL)

Key concepts: Public transport, Competition (biology), Business, Investment (military), Transport engineering, Perspective (graphical), Transportation planning, Principal (computer security)

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