WIT Press


The Concept Of "sustainable Transport": Implications For Potential Of Residential Streets

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

33

Pages

10

Published

1997

Size

1,236 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/UT970231

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

R. Bogdanovic, J. Petrovic & D. Bazik

Abstract

One of the principals of The European Urban Charter, in urban transport and mobility is rehabilitation of the social role of the street. The Habitat Agenda, in the frame of the concept of "sustainable development", recommends "sustainable transport".The point of the policy of "sustainable transport" is to encourage the use of an optimal combination of modes of transport, including walking. This paper deals with the method of developing the residential street into a "social collector", "living yard" or "threshold" of residential space. Usability of residential streets is very specific and unfolds in a typically designed traffic rou

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