Data for 84 cities in 1995 (the latest year available)
are used to establish a global perspective, while 15 cities typical
of the situation in industrial and developing countries are compared
to illustrate the main differences. The indicators discussed include
transportation energy, transit use, population density, nonmotorized
transport (NMT), relative speed of transit to traffic, and length of
freeway.
The data are from a comparative study of 100 global
cities for the International Union of Public Transport (UITP) and conducted
by the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP) at
Murdoch University. It involved 27 parameters using highly controlled
processes to ensure comparability of data.
The study took 5 years and builds on previous data
collection since 1980. See
- Kenworthy J and Laube F (2001) The Millennium Cities
Database for Sustainable Transport., UITP/ISTP, Brussels, and
also
- Kenworthy J., Laube F., Newman P., Barter P., Raad
T., Poboon C. and Guia B. (1999).
- An International Sourcebook of Automobile Dependence
in Cities, 1960-1990. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
The data is on urban areas from the Millennium Data
Base prepared for the International Union of Public Transport and conducted
by the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy at Murdoch
University in Australia. It is the most comprehensive urban transportation
and land use data set available.
The 2005 data collection will commence shortly.
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