Which Mayor never dreams to have a more safety city, with a clean environment, where people are happy to live, and expecting to be able to build a strong financial situation and offering tax reduction.

The “Global City Management” approach intents to bring tools and suggestions to achieve these objectives.

Where to start ?

Why starting with the Mass Traffic Management ?

Traffic is visible, chaotic, noisy and polluting, it is impacting our daily life.

In one side we want to have our independence by having our personal car and the other one we would like to have a secure and clean city where it is easy to move, to walk and to live.

In the most European cities the municipalities have developed “pedestrian” areas with threes and plants where people can walk in security and these areas are mostly shopping or residential. In the same way they have implemented special fast and very secure itineraries for public transport that are using free cars roads.

By acting directly on the Traffic Management by reducing the flow of the “general” traffic and by developing a better “Public Transport” Network adapted to the need and the expectations of the users we will bring quick visible signs of a better “quality of life”.

This result can be reached by implementing and developing regulations and technologies that will allow better control on the traffic management and will propose better and easier services to the citizens.

Every city has is own problematic and there is not an universal panacea to build the “ideal” city. But by building a “vision” of what will be your “better” city it is the first step to figure out what we need to reach this goal.

Often, simple regulations can bring immediate effect. For example, forbidden Taxi to drive inside the city without passengers with the obligation to park in the first free “reserved” parking space they will find (and closing their engine) will have an immediate impact on the numbers of cars in the roads and on the pollution.

By reducing the flow of car traffic we will able to implement “faster” and “safer” itineraries for buses with an immediate effect on the quality of services offered and on the quality of life.

By developing of “good” Public Transport Network linked to parking, Train, Metro or other public services through an adapted technology we will reduce once more the flow of traffic, we will increase the security on the street, reduce the pollution and give better services to the people.

A new approach: A New Deal for transport

We are facing an enormous challenge to deliver our vision of a transport system that supports sustainable development. We need a new approach, bringing together the public and private sectors in a partnership which benefits everyone. We want to ensure that companies have incentives to provide new services and raise standards, that taxpayers' money is spent wisely to make public transport available for all and that services are properly regulated in the public interest.

We want transport to contribute to our quality of life not detract from it. The way forward is through an integrated transport policy. By this we mean:

	integration within and between different types of transport - so that each contributes its full potential and people can move easily between them;
	integration with the environment - so that our transport choices support a better environment;
	integration with land use planning - at national, regional and local level, so that transport and planning work together to support more sustainable travel choices and reduce the need to travel;
	integration with our policies for education, health and wealth creation - so that transport helps to make a fairer, more inclusive society.

To realize these objectives we need to develop a new approach, it is a long term strategy to deliver sustainable transport. It is also a strategy for modernization that harnesses the latest developments in technology:

	promote the public interest;
	produce better public transport, with easier, more reliable connections;
	improve choice between different modes;
	enhance public transport networks;
	encourage more through-ticketing;
	provide better travel information;
	ensure more reliable and frequent services;
	give the passenger a bigger voice in public transport.

	reduce road traffic growth;
	respond to the challenge of climate change;
	limit the visual intrusion caused by transport;
	reduce use of non-renewable materials/energy sources;
	ensure that environmental impacts are taken fully into account in investment decisions and in the price of transport;
	enhance public awareness of transport and environment issues.

(http://www.dft.gov.uk/itwp/paper/index.htm)

Traffic Infrastructure Development Plan

The Trend in the modern cities is:

Having a complete pedestrian area in the Center of the City

Having a Public Transport Network based on a SPIDER NET

Fast Transport System (Metro or RER) for the main route

Light Transport System to connect main route together

Road Toll System on each incoming Motor Way

Parking at the external end of the Main route

New trends, based on Belgian, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish experience push further the City infrastructure

	by creating a Speedway (RING) around the city with large parking facilities.
	by creating a Peripheral Boulevard around the City
	by controlling or forbidding cars inside the City Center
	by controlling the cars that want to enter inside the City using Toll System
	by creating Office & Industrial Park outside the city around the RING.

Speed Shuttle

BUS

Metro

RER

The Modern city then will have the following structure

Example: Villeneuve D'asco in France

Example of Sustainable Traffic development

Integrated Transport Planning in Curitiba, Brazil

Curitiba, Brazil - The city of Curitiba, Brazil, has integrated sustainable transport considerations into all of its plans for business development, road infrastructure development, and local community development. Curitiba first outlined a preliminary urban plan and a Master Plan in 1965, with the main goals of limiting central area growth and encouraging commercial and service sector growth along two structural north-south transport arteries, radiating out from the city center. The Master Plan also aimed to provide economic support for urban development through the establishment of industrial zones and to encourage local community self-sufficiency by providing all city districts with adequate education, health care, recreation, and park areas. With the structural transport axes, the Master Plan ensured linear development of the city, reducing the traditional importance of the downtown area as the primary focus of all transport activity, thereby minimizing congestion. The plan called for the integration of traffic management, transportation, and land- use planning to achieve its goals, and maintained flexibility in its regulations to allow for different future development scenarios. The Master Plan also proposed the creation of the Institute of Urban Research and Planning of Curitiba (IPPUC) to coordinate, modify, and oversee Plan implementation.

Zoning and Land Uses
Layout of the Road Infrastructure
Design of the Arteries
The Bus System
Results of the Bus System
No motorized Transport and Pedestrian Facilities

Example in Europe, the Program MOSES

http://www.moses-europe.org/

Last update : 16/07/02 Copyright @ Global City Management Michel GENOT