ABSTRACT
Although rapid motorisation growth rates have been most commonly associated with the deteriorating conditions of urban transport systems in the Third World, high rates of urbanisation and related changes to the economic base of settlements in this part of the globe are in fact (as indicated in the previous chapter) the more influential contributing factors. What is especially important about these trends is that they have taken place in settlements which are foci, in their respective countries, of forces of modernisation, industrialisation and technology-transfer, and thus constitute very important centres of local, national and regional development.
