What is Urban
Transport
Elements of Urban
Transport
The Urban Transport Sector consists mainly of the following elements:
1. Urban public transport.
- On-street systems (for
buses, trucks, wagons etc.)
- Mixed on-street off-street systems (bus lanes, intercity trains etc.)
- Off-street systems (metro rails etc.)
2. urban
road system
3. traffic management system
4. non-motorized transport systems (facilities for pedestrians etc.)
5. urban transport institutions (planning, design, finance, implementation and
enforcement)
Successful urban transport
systems ought to increase commercial and labor market efficiency, increase access to
amenities and make changes in the scale and form of urban agglomerations possible, all
without undue adverse effects on the environment.
Urban sector is the back
bone for Pakistan. General public living in urban sector of country, spend about 15-20
percent of their annual household income on transport. |
