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Edwards, T

Edwards, T & Smith, S (2008), Transport problems facing large cities,  Briefing Paper No. 6/08, NSW Parliamentary Library
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This paper considers the problems facing transport policy in large cities. As the world’s
cities have become home to the vast majority of their national population, governments are faced with the challenge of providing transport infrastructure to accommodate the needs of their citizens. In many of the world’s largest cities, the majority of travel is by private car, which poses two problems – road congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.