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The green transport hierarchy (Canada), street user hierarchy (US), sustainable transport hierarchy (Wales), [1] urban transport hierarchy or road user hierarchy (Australia, UK) [2] is a hierarchy of modes of passenger transport prioritising green transport. [3] It is a concept used in transport reform groups worldwide [4] [5] and in policy ...
Sustainable transport policies have their greatest impact at the city level. Some of the biggest cities in Western Europe have a relatively sustainable transport. In Paris 53% of trips are made by walking, 3% by bicycle, 34% by public transport, and only 10% by car. In the entire Ile-de-France region, walking is the most popular way of ...
A TransJakarta bus serving Corridor 2 (Harmoni-Pulo Gadung). ITDP works to encourage safe, modern, and efficient public transportation systems in cities worldwide. ITDP is currently active in a design and/or consulting capacity in the BRT programs of Ahmedabad, India; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Johannesburg, South Africa (); Jakarta, Indonesia (TransJakarta); Guangzhou, Lanzhou, and Yichang ...
The health and environmental impact of transport is significant because transport burns most of the world's petroleum. This causes illness and deaths from air pollution , including nitrous oxides and particulates , and is a significant cause of climate change through emission of carbon dioxide .
A Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) is a planning concept applied by local and regional authorities for strategic mobility planning. It encourages a shift towards more sustainable transport modes and supports the integration and balanced development of all modes. A SUMP is instrumental in solving urban transport problems and reaching local ...
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The concept of « traffic avoidance, modal shift and technical improvements » [2] involves firstly reducing the volume of transport, then promoting intermodality and finally making technical improvements to vehicles and making the energy they consume sustainable. [4] This means in fact implementing the Kaya identity applied to transport (see ...
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) is an American multinational non-profit public policy think tank and research institute that provides technical, scientific, and policy analysis to environmental regulators on issues related to environmental, energy, and transportation policy.