This paper provides a review of how compact, connected, and coordinated cities can help generate stronger growth, create jobs, alleviate poverty, and significantly reduce the cost of providing services and infrastructure.
January 2016
This paper provides a review of how compact, connected, and coordinated cities can help generate stronger growth, create jobs, alleviate poverty, and significantly reduce the cost of providing services and infrastructure. It starts with the main trends and emerging new opportunities in urban transport, and highlights the costs of the sprawled model of urban development and transport emerging in a number of countries compared with a more compact, coordinated, and connected model. It also identifies some potential tipping points in transport mobility worldwide, including new technologies enabling new models of mobility. It concludes with an overview of international collaborative initiatives on urban transport and with recommendations for policymakers.
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