Case Study: Transport Managment
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- Created on: 21-03-16 14:43
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- Case Study: Transport Management
- Curitiba, Brazil
- It chose to favour people over cars
- Is on the east coast of Brazil with a pop of 3.5 million
- 800Km South of Rio
- 99% of people say they're happy with the city
- Public Transport
- Street of flowers expands over 15 blocks and was paved over instead of widened for cars
- Population increased 10fold increasing strain on public transport
- Arterial road system has three lanes one for traffic going in, one for traffic going out and a middle lane dedicated to busses
- All busses arrive withing 5 minutes of their ETA with 90% of busses being wihin 30 seconds
- Takes 2 million people a day
- Not subsidised as it pays for itself
- Bus system is 100-200x cheaper than a Tube system
- Switzerland
- 3 international airports and an other 61 smaller airports and airstrips.
- An integrated time table means that any point within Switzerland is reachable at least once per hour
- 2 million citizens carry national travel cards
- 95% arrive within 1 minute and 75% within 5
- Switzerland has the highest railway density in the EU
- 2000 trains pass through Zurich a day
- 1600 Km of Motor way has been built last year (2014)
- Almost every village in Switzerland can be reached by a regional bus several times a day
- Curitiba, Brazil
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