Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development

Transformando las ciudades con el transporte público: integración del transporte público y el uso del suelo para un desarrollo urbano sostenible

Robert Cervero, Hiroaki Suzuki and Kanako Iuchi

No 12233 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: This study explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. It first identifies barriers to and opportunities for effective coordination of transit infrastructure and urban development. It then recommends a set of policies and implementation measures for overcoming these barriers and exploiting these opportunities. Well-integrated transit and land development create urban forms and spaces that reduce the need for travel by private motorized vehicles. Areas with good access to public transit and well-designed urban spaces that are walkable and bikeable become highly attractive places for people to live, work, learn, play, and interact. Such environments enhance a city's economic competitiveness, reduce local pollution and global greenhouse gas emissions, and promote inclusive development. These goals are at the heart of transit-oriented development (TOD), an urban form that is increasingly important to sustainable urban futures. This book uses a case study approach. It draws lessons from global best-case examples of transit-oriented metropolises that have direct relevance to cities in developing countries and elsewhere that are currently investing in bus rapid transit (BRT) and other high-capacity transit systems. It also reports the results of two original in-depth case studies of rapidly growing and motorizing cities that introduced extended BRT systems: Ahmedabad, India and Bogota, Colombia. Two shorter case studies enrich the understanding of factors that are critical to transforming cities with transit.

Keywords: National; Urban; Development; Policies; and; Strategies; Urban; Development-Municipal; Financial; Management; Communities; and; Human; Settlements-Urban; Housing; and; Land; Settlements; Transport; Economics; Policy; and; Planning; Environmental; Economics; and; Policies; Environment; Transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8213-9745-9
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