The historical development of cities and urban transportinevitably implies a conflict between mass transit and the urbanenvironment, regardless of the steps taken to influence (and thedegree of such influence) the ratio of mass transit to privatetranspmtation in cities. In fact, both are to be found among themost important factors reducing the standard of urban living insettlements and cities. The positive effect of transportation inte1ms of its overcoming physical distances is associated withquite a few negative impacts on man and the environment;within this scope the negative effects of passenger cars on the urbanenvironment are higher than those of mass transit.A realistic approach to the urban-transit-to-environmentrelation would involve the identification of its relative parameters,their objective quantification, and the selection of steps toreduce or prevent the occurrence of negative effects.The general transformation of th'e city - environment -transportation relation in Zagreb follows the same pattem. Theassessment of the relation between mass transit in Zagreb andother elements of the urban environment is as negative as therelation of the former to the population (whether it involves pedestrians,transit users or passenger car drivers).The range of possible steps which could improve this stateof affairs in Zagreb covers a span from secular to short-termmeasures. Unfortunately, the relation of transit (one of the elementsof the urban environment) and man does not seem to attractthe interest of the main agents of the city's transpmtationpolicies.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Parameters of Relation Between Public Urban Traffic and Urban Environment with Special Reference to Zagreb


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2005




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




    Correlation between Land Use and Urban Public Transport: Case Study of Zagreb

    Gordana Štefančić / Slavko Šarić / Robert Spudić | DOAJ | 2014

    Free access

    Role of railway traffic in public urban and suburban passenger transport (example of the City of Zagreb)

    Baric, D. / Badanjak, D. / Novacko, L. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2008


    Organisation of Suburban and Urban Railway Traffic in the Krapina-Zagorje County and the City of Zagreb

    Alojz Brkić / Ivan Švaljek / Vinko Jenić | DOAJ | 2012

    Free access


    Optimization of Urban Public Traffic Networks

    Lu, S. / Xia, Y. / China Communications and Transportation Association; Transportation & Development Institute (American Society of Civil Engineers) | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2007