Cities play a vital role in promoting economic growth and prosperity. The development of cities largely depends upon their physical, social, and institutional infrastructure. In this context, the importance of intraurban transportation is paramount. This article provides an overview of urban transport issues in India. Rather than covering every aspect of urban transportation, it primarily focus...

This study introduces space, transportation, and money into an economic growth model. Growth theory neglects the importance of transportation on economic growth and transportation economics fails to properly explain how changes in transportation conditions (such as technological improvement, infrastructure investment, and oil prices) affect long-term economic growth. By proposing a growth model...

It is important to understand the settlement morphology and its transition process in the rapid urbanization cities of developing countries. It is equally important to learn about the relationships between transport energy consumption and the transition of settlement morphology and its underlying processes. Finally, if the existing transportation technologies are already adequately meeting the ...

As contemporary intelligent transportation systems are becoming a reality in our everyday’s life and future urban transportation brings about concerns of a wide range of new performance measures, multidisciplinary teams are more and more faced with the need to work collaboratively so as to meet those demands. This paper reports on the specification of the MAS-Ter Lab framework, emphasising on i...

We study the role of unemployment in the context of the endogeneous formation of a monocentric city in which firms set efficiency wages to deter shirking. We first show that, in equilibrium, the employed locate at the vicinity of the city-center, the unemployed reside at the city-edge and firms set up in the city-center. We then show that there is a ‘spatial mismatch’ between location and jobs ...

The need for continuing, comprehensive, urban transportation planning on a cooperative basis among all levels of governmental units is emphasized by the growing importance of transportation as a major segment of our economy. Transport facilities have linked our nation together socially, economically, and politically. As our national popula­ tion and economic activity increase in the future, so ...

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time. Urban transportation has had a major negative impact on our environment—most of our air pollution comes from transport. This paper explores ways to move toward a more sustainable transport system by focusing on creating a more efficient and livable city and improving the environmental efficiency of...

TedChing in substantive areas ofphnning has become increasingly calculative. Students have been taught to use techniques, but not to ask whether they are asking the right questions A new course whlch attempted to instead emphasize a meditatlve approach to transportation planning is described. A theme of exposing and criticizing assumptions-bubble bursting--lies at the heart of the course. Philo...

This paper describes an innovative transportation system based on non-polluting autonomous vehicles. The proposed solution lies between high-speed outdoor moving walks and low-speed urban cars platooning. It integrates the service modes and advantages of both, while avoiding their main drawback, which are respectively the lack of scalability and the usage of traditional automobiles. The present...

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