Operating Urban Transportation Engineering - Part 6
Any
advanced scheme for large sell-contained urban complexes must include provision
for the movement of goods, which today account for roughly one- fourth of all weekday
traffic movements. Proposals for goods handling, in addition to trucks, have
included freight vehicles using passenger transportation rails or guideways, special
traffic tunnels, conveyers, and even large, air-actuated pipelines.
Wilfred
Owen, who refers to urban areas throughout the world as "accidental
cities" or "unmanageable metropolises," proposes "regional
cities" which are in the middle ground. They would be made up of
interconnected high-density clusters surrounded by low-density land uses such
as new towns (see below). Transportation in high-density areas would combine
walking with people movers, elevators, and escalators; in Iow-density areas
the automobile and bus would predominate.
The
new town concept which was implemented in Great Britain before World War II has
urban satellite communities near to and associated with large urban centers.
They are usually planned to be largeiy self-contained, with employment and all
community services provided, bu! with easy access to the central citv by rail
or expressway bus. A number of such communities have been constructed with
limited acceptance in the United States; successful ones include Reston, Va.,
and Columbia, Md., near Washington, D.C. In Europe much of the
population growth for such cities as Stockholm. Rome, and Belgrade among
others is being cared for in such satellite communities. Canberra and Brasilia,
capitals of Australia and Brazil, respectively, are other examples. Egypt has
undertaken Sadat City, with a population of more than one million.
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