Urban Mobility

Urban Mobility: Emerging Paradigms in Planning, Finance, and Implementation explains what new urban mobility planning paradigms are emerging throughout the world, with their potential to transform the urban transportation landscape. Half of the world's 7 billion people now live in cities, causing severe road congestion, increased air pollution and green-house gas emissions, and energy insecurity, threatening the sustainability of cities and the planet itself. New paradigms are emerging throughout the world that addresses these problems; however, they have yet to become the norm across all countries, especially developing ones. Urban Mobility increases the awareness and clarity of how effective these new approaches can be in differing socio-economic and political contexts around the globe. Beginning with how urban mobility challenges are threatening the economic efficiency, health, and well-being of cities and its residents, Urban Mobility highlights the main approaches that have been adopted so far to deal with these problems. It then highlights the urban mobility transformations taking place due to emerging new information technologies, including how social media has become a way of forcefully championing needed initiatives. The book then examines the planning principles that emphasize better integration of land use and transport planning, how public transport is evolving, and the changing approaches to how successful transport investments and operations are financed around the world. The book looks at Integrated Corridor Management that improves the people-moving performance of multi-modal transport systems in high demand urban corridors, and how countries balance the mobility benefits of motorcycles with the environmental and safety threats they pose. Urban Mobility looks at congestion, road accident fatalities, adverse environmental impacts, and the challenges of meeting the mobility needs of special needs populations. It examines the emerging ways to address the evolving role of women, which has impacted travel in fundamental ways globally. The book concludes with a summary of lessons learnt and the way forward in dealing with the problems under the emerging paradigms.