An economic way of reducing health, environmental, and other pressures of urban traffic: a decision analysis on trip aggregation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traffic congestion is rapidly becoming the most important obstacle to urban development. In addition, traffic creates major health, environmental, and economical problems. Nonetheless, automobiles are crucial for the functions of the modern society. Most proposals for sustainable traffic solutions face major political opposition, economical consequences, or technical problems.

Methods

We performed a decision analysis in a poorly studied area, trip aggregation, and studied decisions from the perspective of two different stakeholders, the passenger and society. We modelled the impact and potential of composite traffic, a hypothetical large-scale demand-responsive public transport system for the Helsinki metropolitan area, where a centralised system would collect the

SUBMITTER: Tuomisto JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1325249 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature