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By 2050, two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities.
To thrive, they will need efficient and sustainable forms of
transport, but to achieve this, the financial incentives guiding
urban transport operation must change - and change rapidly. Urban
transport plays a critical role in determining the social,
environmental and economic shape of cities. Improving Urban Access:
New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment provide innovative
ideas on how we might reorganize transport finance to ensure that
it is suited to serving the social, environmental and economic
principles that must guide future urban living. Continuing the work
begun by its predecessor, Urban Access for the 21st Century, the
authors assess the complexity of implementing new finance
approaches and suggest ways to make positive and radical changes.
Although the range of revenue raising options remain limited to
users, indirect beneficiaries, and the general public, these can be
recast to transform the way transport is paid for and therefore how
its services are delivered. New finance models only succeed when
they are intrinsically linked to the economic, social, cultural and
political forces that create urban life. Together these volumes
provide a starting point for the deeper research and policy design
needed to successfully create urban transport finance systems that
can address the challenges that 21st century cities present.
This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for
all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of
dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle
classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century seeks to change this.
Policies need to be more inclusive of the accessibility needs of
the urban poor. Change requires redesigning the existing public
finance systems that support urban mobility. The aim is to diminish
their embedded biases towards automobile-based travel. Through a
series of chapters from international contributors, the book brings
together expertise from different fields. It shows how small
changes can incentivize large positive developments in urban
transport and create truly accessible cities.
By 2050, two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities.
To thrive, they will need efficient and sustainable forms of
transport, but to achieve this, the financial incentives guiding
urban transport operation must change - and change rapidly. Urban
transport plays a critical role in determining the social,
environmental and economic shape of cities. Improving Urban Access:
New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment provide innovative
ideas on how we might reorganize transport finance to ensure that
it is suited to serving the social, environmental and economic
principles that must guide future urban living. Continuing the work
begun by its predecessor, Urban Access for the 21st Century, the
authors assess the complexity of implementing new finance
approaches and suggest ways to make positive and radical changes.
Although the range of revenue raising options remain limited to
users, indirect beneficiaries, and the general public, these can be
recast to transform the way transport is paid for and therefore how
its services are delivered. New finance models only succeed when
they are intrinsically linked to the economic, social, cultural and
political forces that create urban life. Together these volumes
provide a starting point for the deeper research and policy design
needed to successfully create urban transport finance systems that
can address the challenges that 21st century cities present.
This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for
all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of
dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle
classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century seeks to change this.
Policies need to be more inclusive of the accessibility needs of
the urban poor. Change requires redesigning the existing public
finance systems that support urban mobility. The aim is to diminish
their embedded biases towards automobile-based travel. Through a
series of chapters from international contributors, the book brings
together expertise from different fields. It shows how small
changes can incentivize large positive developments in urban
transport and create truly accessible cities.
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