The movement of people and goods increases significantly due to the rapid economic growth. However, too much traffic on a given traffic infrastructure negatively influences the natural resources, the environment, and the urban image. As developing countries have begun to increase their economic activities, the level of service on the already congested road networks starts to deteriorate. In addition, investments have been concentrated on new road facilities, and not on creating attractive public transport systems. A transportation master plan for the four million city of Alexandria is recently developed by the author. Its main objective is not only to fulfill the future travel demand, but also to generate new mobility on a sustainable way. The new mobility applications are clean, integrated, and smart. The purpose of this paper is to present the philosophy and main features of the master plan which contains three strategies: (a) reducing travel demand through the integration of land use and transportation planning together with the economic regional development, (b) modal shift from less to more environmental friendly transport modes, and (c) improving road system and simultaneously freedom and safety of pedestrians. The paper illustrates also a procedure to evaluate the sustainability of different scenarios, based on technical, economical, environmental, and social indicators. The evaluation confirms the sustainability of the master plan and its efficiency towards new mobility.
Sustainable Development of Mobility in Alexandria Metropolitan Area
Sixth International Conference of Traffic and Transportation Studies Congress (ICTTS) ; 2008 ; Nanning, China
2008-07-17
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Online Contents | 2013