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Car infrastructure uses urban space<br />

inefficiently<br />

Brasilia was built to accommodate cars, with a lot of space for roads and<br />

parking<br />

Each mode of transport uses space for moving and<br />

parking over a given period of time. However, a private<br />

car is the largest consumer of space as it spends 90% (or<br />

22 hours per day) of its life stationary (i.e. parked).<br />

Subsequently, enormous quantities of valuable urban<br />

space are used uneconomically only for parking at<br />

home, at the office, in commercial areas.<br />

In addition, road infrastructure needed to accommodate<br />

travel demands also consumes much space, sometimes<br />

disrupting communities and marginalising entire<br />

neighbourhoods.<br />

Economic value is lost and some living areas are<br />

marginalised by car-based infrastructure<br />

Problem 11<br />

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