Advances in City Transport
Case Studies

City transport system studies are a challenge for engineers and planners because their decisions affect people's daily lives. The environmental impacts in urban areas due to traffic play a significant role. This book contains case studies that are useful for those involved in the process of transportation planning and engineering.

City transport system studies have been a constant challenge for engineers and planners all over the world, particularly because their decisions affect people's daily lives. The environmental impacts in urban areas due to traffic play a significant role and it could be considered that nowadays the evaluation of intervening factors in the transport system is based on the examination of their environmental dimension; that is whether the target to upgrade the quality of the environment can be achieved. New ideas, which are often supported by the evolution of new technologies in the transport sector, have materialized in various cities all over the world where people from different backgrounds and cultures face similar daily problems as far as transportation is concerned. These case studies should benefit all those who are involved in the process of transportation planning and engineering.

Chapter 1:
Adelaide: innovations in transport systems, infrastructure and services
Introduction
Overview of Adelaide and its transport systems
The O-Bahn guided busway
The Southern Expressway - a fully reversible road
Bus priority and public transport information
Conclusion
Chapter 2:
Vehicular pollution in Bangalore: an overview
General history
The British Cantonment
After India's independence
Population
Parks and gardens
Meteorological conditions
Growth of motor vehicles in Bangalore
Status of air pollution in Bangalore
Pollution due to automobiles in Bangalore city
Air pollutant concentration at selected junctions
Ambient air quality
Some efforts taken by the authority to reduce vehicular pollution levels
Measures for reducing vehicular pollutants
Chapter 3:
Impact assessment of Bilbao's metro
Introduction
Database
Methodology
Results
Conclusions
Chapter 4:
Innovating urban public transport: some recent developments in the Netherlands
Introduction
A view on the transport system
Seamless multi-modal mobility
Using ICT for improving urban transport
Urban spatial development
A Dutch case: Phileas in Eindhoven
Conclusions and discussion
Chapter 5:
Transport and air quality in Santiago, Chile
Urban characteristics of Santiago
Trip characteristics
Transport and air quality evolution in Santiago (1991-2001)
The 2001-2010 urban transport plan for Santiago
Conclusions
Chapter 6:
Transport air pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil: advances in control programs in the last 15 years
Introduction
City traffic and transport programs
Air pollution control programs

Air emissions
Air quality
Air quality trend in the central area
The future
Chapter 7:
Issues in transportation planning - the Singapore experience
Introduction
Land use and transport planning
Travel demand management
Public transport operations
Traffic engineering and control
Conclusion
Chapter 8:
Development of an integrated transportation system in Thessaloniki: current situation and future prospects
Introduction
Trip and vehicle characteristics in T.M.A.
Presentation of the existing transportation system
Planned major transport infrastructure projects
Evaluation of transport infrastructure scenarios through the use of modelling
Transport telematics applications
Traffic and air pollution
Conclusions