The Importance Of Sustainable Transport Development

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The transport sector underpins modern society through its movement of resources, goods, services and people, which directly sustains the global economy and peoples’ livelihoods (Robèrt et al., 2017). Although, the inability of the transport sector to develop sustainably has resulted in failings at environmental, economic and social levels that threaten its long-term viability (Schiller et al., 2010). To transition to a more sustainable transport system, there is a direct need for integrated global policy to address the three pillars of sustainability and facilitate transport development ‘…that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs…’ (WCED, 1987, p.54). In response to this …show more content…

This ensures the transport system offers viable transport options and modes, which allows society to derive welfare from the equal access to opportunities, goods, services, employment, housing and recreation (Martin and Rice, 2014). Greater consideration of accessibility in spatial planning is required to target the spatial distribution and quantity of opportunities (Pyrialakou et al., 2016). This will reduce temporal constraints of transportation linkages for people, as well as, enabling an understanding of the individual demographic characteristics that impede people’s access (Pyrialakou et al., 2016). In addition, the social equity dimension of transport systems exhibits a need to minimise transport-related social exclusion, through improving access for those currently facing the greatest transport-induced inequalities (Pyrialakou et al., 2016). A sustainable transport system must identify individuals, communities and regions with distorted transport-supplies to ensure a more equitable distribution of transport infrastructure, which can meet the accessibility needs of these

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