Road to better transport in urban areas


WORLD Sustainable Transport Day, celebrated for the first time on Nov 26, serves as a reminder of the important role of safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems in economic development and the social welfare of people, among others.

Currently, urban transport planning in Malaysian cities assumes a “traffic focus”, where success is defined in terms of facilitating vehicle movement, positioning overall policy planning at odds with a more sustainable mobility-focused or access-focused goal.

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