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Rapidly growing international cities have largely adopted western tools and processes to plan their transportation policies and infrastructure. The issues and decision-making framework for these cities often differs significantly from those of mature western cities, raising questions about the appropriateness of western tools and practices. Are these tools appropriate, nimble and comprehensive or should planning for these rapidly growing cities be rethought and use new tools? What lessons should we have learned over the past decades to better tailor a process and tools for these needs? This paper highlights several observed planning weaknesses and commonly overlooked planning opportunities for rapid growth cities and then it suggests possible ways forward to improve the process, along with possible areas for further research. Key opportunities might include: (1) earlier attention to alignment coordination planning; (2) more attention to core capacity risks; (3) added care when using and interpreting demand forecast models; (4) more consideration about how we share growth benefits with inner city neighborhoods; and (5) possibly re organizing the planning process to prioritize pedestrian, bicycle and transit policies and investments over highway investments. Some of these lessons also apply to North American transportation planning. The observations and ideas in this paper are intended to stimulate discussions of the strengths and weaknesses of mainstay western planning approaches for rapidly growing international cities.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Standing Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries.

01584066

16-1872

English

15p

2016

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References

Cities; International; Transportation planning; Urban growth

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-1872

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 4:48PM