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Report n°6: Urban Public Transport

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Overview of external effects of UPT/ERW systemsTCSP

Social cohesion is one of the foremost considerations of urban public policies. To difficulties generated by unemployment and the sluggish growth of the economy, are added handicaps of a cultural nature. The risks of a breakdown in social cohesion are not unrelated to the geographic dimensions of urban life so that in a generally less favourable context for acquiring individual means of transport, public transport helps to bring together the various parts of sprawling or splintered cities. Access to the labour market and to urban resources generally and the possibility of achieving a social mix in public, private and commercial areas where everyone can meet, both in the city centre and its suburbs, depends on generally available access by alternatives to private cars. Furthermore, the segregational nature of public transport must also be attenuated (it is segregational in that it is mainly used by "captives" without cars).

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