Developments in Urban Transport Planning: Their Relevance to Third World Practice

Transport planning activities have been undertaken in many countries at urban, regional and national levels in relation to both passenger and freight movement. Since formal planning methods using large-scale models were developed in the mid-1950s in the USA and Western Europe these methods and procedures have also been applied to many Third World cities. As already discussed elsewhere in this book (in particular, see Chapter 5), much criticism has been levelled at such practice in the different environments of the Third World.