ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book by Fol and Gallez Macario demonstrates the dimensions of challenges in developing simple and yet meaningful measures of access. The essential urban transport story everywhere was about the design and redesign of new and existing urban street networks to accommodate the speed and parking needs of automobiles. Salvucci addresses the challenge of an institutional context that can integrate these two functionally connected yet administratively separated domains that govern access. Vasconcellos, focusing on the challenge of formal and informal transport in low- and middle-income countries addresses this question in part through addressing the challenge of transforming the informal transport that is typically the dominant characteristic in these places into a more formal system of public transport. A good illustration of this deep embeddedness is found in the routine conceptualizations of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) when applied to urban transport.
