Monday, January 16, 2012

THE ROLE OF URBAN TRANSPORT IN SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SETTLEMENTS DEVELOPMENT

Prepared by: UNCHS (HABITAT)

The rapid urbanization occurring across much of the globe means that not only that more people than ever before will be living and working in cities but also that more people and more goods will be making more trips in urban areas, often over longer and longer distances. How cities, and especially, how rapidly growing cities in developing countries meet the increased demand for urban transport has profound implications for the global environment and the economic productivity of human settlements.
Cities represent a spatial organization of functions to meet human needs. The value of this spatial organization depends, to a large extent, on the capacity to facilitate interactions, by arranging effective patterns of physical development and by providing for the efficient movement of goods and people. By allowing access to employment opportunities, housing quarters and services, the transport sector meets basic human needs and, by affecting the exchange of raw materials and finished products, it supports diversification and strengthens the economy. However, meeting the demand for transport involves high costs which bear heavily on public spending, business expenditures and family budgets, competing for resources needed for the achievement of other developmental objectives. Expenditures on transport affect, in particular, low-income-family budgets, adding the poverty burden.


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  1. Expenditures on transport affect, in particular, low-income-family budgets, adding the poverty burden.

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