Transportation and energy in the sustainable city

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• “As the share of the world’s population living in cities grows

to nearly 70 percent by 2050 and energy consumption for

transport in cities is expected to double, the need for efficient,

affordable, safe and high-capacity transport solutions will become

more acute,”

IEA Executive Director Maria van der

Hoeven

ENERGY and TRANSPORT

• critical steps to improve the efficiency of urban transport

systems are needed not only for energy security reasons, but also to:

1 .mitigate the numerous negative

climate,

2. noise,

3. air pollution,

4.congestion and economic impacts of

rising urban transport volumes

IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven

ENERGY and TRANSPORT

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• the aim of planning policies and urban design solutions must be to reduce the need for movement using private motor car.

ENERGY and TRANSPORT

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• Planning and designing urban forms for the reduced need for mobility is a longer-term solution to the problems facing society.

ENERGY and TRANSPORT

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• It depends upon individuals gradually changing their lifestyle to one which is less dependent on the private car for mobility.

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ENERGY and TRANSPORT

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• It was thirty years ago that limitations on the use of the private motor car must be imposed in order to safeguard the local environment from :

– noxious fumes,

– noise and visual degradation

– to reducing the stress being placed on the climate by greenhouse gases.

ENERGY and TRANSPORT

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• The city’s transportation system cannot be solved by building more roadsbecause such a formula will not in the end solve the problem.

ROAD TRAFFIC AND POLLUTION

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• The need for city’s movement relying on greater use of :

• Public transport,

• cycling and

• walking (for any necessary mobility)

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• (1) To ensure that an effective transport policy at

all levels of government is integrated with land use

policy and gives priority to minimizing the need for

transport and increasing the proportion of trips by environmentally less

damaging modes.

• (2) To achieve standards of air quality that will prevent

damage to human health and the environment.

Eight objectives for achieving a sustainabletransport policy (The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ,1994)

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• (3) To improve the quality of life, particularly in towns and cities, by reducing the

dominance of cars and lorries and providing alternative means of

access.

• (4) To increase the proportions of personal

travel and freight transport by environmentally less

damaging modes and to make the best use of

existing infrastructure.

Eight objectives for achieving a sustainabletransport policy (The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ,1994)

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• (5) To halt the loss of land to transport

infrastructure in areas of conservation, cultural,

scenic or amenity value, unless the use of land for

that purpose has been shown to be the best

practicable environmental option.

• (6) To reduce carbon dioxide emissions from

transport.

Eight objectives for achieving a sustainabletransport policy (The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ,1994)

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• (7) To reducesubstantially the demands which

transport infrastructure and

the vehicle industry place on non-

renewable materials.

• (8) To reduce noise nuisance from

transport.

Eight objectives for achieving a sustainabletransport policy (The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ,1994)

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