ABSTRACT
Transport both depends on the pattern of the activities it serves, and itself creates the pattern. Much trouble has arisen when both aspects have not been considered together. An exception on the other side is the Buchanan Report, which, by and large, takes the activities of a city as given and considers how these activities can be served by modern means of transport. The vast bulk of all goods other than coal and iron and steel go by road. But goods traffic only represents about a third of all traffic on inter-urban roads and its share is likely to fall. Cities will have to adapt themselves to a fully motorised world; the city problem is the one really big issue. But there are several forms of adaptation, none uniquely relevant to cities of all kinds and sizes.
