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Planning for Transportation

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Sustainable Transportation

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Transportation is fundamental to the development of society. It provides opportunities to interact with others, moves the goods we need, and supports a vibrant economy. This chapter introduces the demand for transportation and explores key trends and growth forecasts. These underline the on-going importance of transportation to social progress and the significant challenge that lies ahead in planning transportation in the face of growing population, rising incomes, and technological change.

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  1. 1.

    This includes motorcycles, scooters, and powered three wheelers.

  2. 2.

    While this analysis extends well beyond the USA, the levels of car ownership per license holder in the USA today are already at 1.15 according to Sperling and Gordon (2009).

  3. 3.

    These movements exist to fulfil the broader socio-economic trends which drive travel demand and that reflect transportation supply described above.

  4. 4.

    This section draws extensively on material prepared for May and Marsden (2010).

  5. 5.

    Mallard and Glaister (2008, p. 151) define an externality as “an unconsidered cost or benefit experienced by a third party due to an economic decision made by others.” A common example is congestion, whereby drivers only take account of the delay they expect to experience and not the delay that their journey will cause others.

  6. 6.

    Source: Infoplease, Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters, 1980–2010. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0882823.html (accessed on April 19, 2015).

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  1. Department of Transport, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Henrik Gudmundsson

  2. School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

    Ralph P. Hall

  3. Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Greg Marsden

  4. Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas, USA

    Josias Zietsman

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