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Transportation conditions and needs in different cities around the world
vary greatly. However, analysis of many different cities reveals similar
patterns in the choices urban leaders and managers face, even though the
range of realistic financial and technological options may be very different.
Here are some of the most common ones:
- Allocating new growth, meeting needs: How to choose among different
parts of the city or region to receive new or substantially expanded
transport infrastructure and services.
- Servicing unserviced developments: Where development has already
taken place, with or without the permission and approval of municipal
authorities, how to select which to provide increased and/or renovated
public transport services, and at what level or standard of service.
- Endorsing or choosing transportation technology: How to choose among
different urban transport products or technologies offered for solving
specific mobility problems, such as traffic congestion in the downtown
core, air pollution, lack of suburban service, and high rates of accidents.
- Engaging residents: How to adopt and implement appropriate systems
and approaches to deal with transport-related demands from residents
of cities, and to encourage appropriate behaviour, such as payment of
fares to sustain the public transport system.
- Finding investors: How to find and attract investors in urban transport
systems, from the private sector or International Financial Institutions.
- Reducing environmental impacts: How to reduce negative environmental
impacts of different patterns of urban transport development while maintaining
jobs and attracting investors.
- Discarding past solutions: How to decide when a transport solution
chosen in the past is simply not working, and must be replaced or fundamentally
changed, and how to do so without major disruption to residents and
businesses.
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