Automobile dependence, expressed through comparative levels of car ownership and use
and transit service and use, varies widely and systematically across a large sample of …

Road accidents are a significant negative outcome of transportation systems, causing
injuries, fatalities, traffic congestion, and economic losses. As cities expand and the number …

Transport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles
of justice. Author Karel Martens starts from the observation that for the last fifty years the …

SUSTAINABILITY AND CITIES: OVERCOMING AUTOMOBILE DEPENDENCE Site
Contents About TRB Annual Meeting Calendar Committees & Panels Programs Projects …

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-
holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has …

Making existing cities and new urban development more ecologically based and liveable is
an urgent priority in the global push for sustainability. This paper discusses ten critical …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Underpriced and overcrowded curb parking
creates problems for everyone except a few lucky drivers who find a cheap space; all the …

Where traffic is congested and all the curb spaces are occupied, some drivers are probably
cruising for parking. Cities can eliminate this cruising by charging demand-based prices for …

Transport issues are critically embedded in everyday life. For this very reason, ways of
addressing such issues are almost always hugely politically contentious, as a quick glance …

Jules Dupuit developed a rich analysis of road pricing, but the Englishlanguage work by
economists does not really get going until after Pigou (1920). The historical pattern of …