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TransportTRANSPORT:THE GREENLIGHTThe Copenhagen Metro has been awarded best in the world / Credit: Jakob Boserup
Copenhagen: Solutions For Sustainable CitiesGiving integrated publictransport the green light18/19« Like many other cities, economic growth in Copenhagen hasbrought with it increased traffic congestion. However, byinvesting in an efficient, reliable and highly integrated publictransport network, IT HAS been possible to deliver some ofthe highest levels of mobility in the world. alongside traffic,congestion and pollution HAVE BEEN REDUCED to levels thatare extremely low by the standards of major internationalcitIES. The number of car trips WITHIN the central part ofCopenhagen fell from 351,000 in 1970 to 284,900 in 2010. »The challenge of the car//Without a decent alternative, people who can afford a carwill drive it. Between 1970 and 2010 the number of dailycar trips across the municipality border rose from 392,000to 535,700 and across the whole of Denmark there has beenan increase in cars from 408,000 to 2 million between 1961and 2010. The Co 2emissions from road transport rose alongwith the increased traffic to around 500,000 tonnes in 2005.Without concerted action Copenhagen could have facedthe traffic congestion and pollution problems that haveblighted many other cities.Integration - our solution//Our solution was to developphysical and virtual (informationtechnology) integration betweenbus, train and the metro servicesto enable passengers to moveseamlessly between different modes.Attempts to convince people to use public transport werehindered by:• A massive improvement in travel time for car-trafficdue to investments in road-infrastructure• Unreliable and inconvenient public transport due tolack of investments in infrastructure• Relocating work places away from the inner city torural and suburban areas - often far from train stationsand with high accessibility for cars• Lack of integration between transport systems andoperators• Inflexibility of funding mechanisms to create newservicesAn integrated transport system between bus, train & metro.
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