FRHD 3090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Smog, Transportation Planning, Traffic Calming
23 Sep 2013
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New paradigm in thinking about transport and health has been to shift the debate from safety" to health benefits. Safety" has been used by public authorities to create transport systems that are sometimes harmful to health: e. g. law in australia requiring cyclists to wear helmets resulted in fewer people cycling. Sustainable development acknowledges that economic development will continue in all parts of the world and, along with population increase, there will be pressure on scarce resources. Travel can be by different modes of transport, depending on the distances to be travelled, and including walking, cycling, buses, cars, trains, boats, and aircrafts. In recent decades, in western europe, the number of journeys by bus and rail have remained stable or diminished, whereas travel by car and air have increased. By contrast, in countries of central and eastern europe, and the newly independent states, bus and rail travel remain important means of travel, while care use is expanding from a low bus.
