Economic Development And Its Associated Environmental Burden In A Motorization And Suburbanization Era
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
33
Pages
10
Published
1997
Size
1,000 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/UT970221
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
Y. Hayashi & K. Anurakamonkul
Abstract
As rapid economic development takes place, intense vehicle use from motorization and suburbanization becomes a crucial contributor to energy consumption and environmental degradation. Without proper measures to control traffic congestion, the benefits from increasing mobility would be swiftly dissipated, particularly for developing cities. Sprawl pattern in suburban areas with scattered housing settlement and poor public transport services encourage longer trip distance and frequent car trips, thereby much larger energy use in these cities. How succe
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