Task 8

Challenges for transportation planning in Asia, Europe and North America
In this lecture, Dr. Khan discussed the transport issues by segmenting in three different subtitles; urban transport planning, sustainable urban transportation and three regions Asia, Europe and North America. First discussed what the urban transportation planning is? The urban transportation planning consists of many identical activities and settings. The main segment of the urban transport planning are establishing a vision, understanding the required measure to implement the vision, assessing opportunity and limitations, consequences analysis, checking of alternative options, presentation of the planning activities, setting of priority and investment model.

In that lecture, also some transportation facts are presented in global perspective. The passenger cars are doing this job mostly as 75 % of the total passenger-km movements are implemented by passenger car. So rest only 25 % of the passenger-km are being carrying out by the train, by-cycle, foot walk etc. The number of private car also increasing day by day in Europe and all over the world, though 50 % of the car are having trip less than 5 Km and 30 % less than 3 Km. Less than 10 % journey are covered by public transport. The by-cycling and foot walking also are decreasing as per the statistics.
From 2000 to 2030, the passenger-km are also increasing in high pace with 42 % increases expected by the year 2030. Also discussed what the major challenges are to be faced for urban transport systems. These are increasing the number of cars in cities, GHG emissions, air pollutions, road safety, noise pollutions, high energy consumptions etc. To overcome these challenges, urban transport system must be sustainable. What are the major task related to the sustainable urban transport (SUT) planning, these are; access and mobility rather than movement, transport accessibility for all, non-compromising of economic growth, improve quality of life, combination of technical and nontechnical measures. The sustainable urban transport system should meet all these context like; environment, economy, social, governance and technology issues. 

 For the betterment of our planet and for the human being, a sustainable urban transport is drawing much attention from the different stakeholders.