An international comparative perspective on fast-rising motorization and automobile dependence

Abstract

This chapter looks at the identification of generic patterns, problems and underlying causes of motorization and their impact on urban development as a critical first strategic step in finding solutions to the problems of transport in developing cities. The author reinforces earlier expressed concerns about the adequacy and transparency of systems of governance, institutions and “communities of interest” typically found in low-income cities, which are needed to deliver effective city and urban transport planning. The author cites these challenges as being especially problematic in light of the highly troubling data that are presented, which reveals the dramatic increase in motorization in urban areas since 1995. The chapter concludes that it is imperative that much more effective ways be found to halt this rise of motorization if policy and planning responses are to avoid their devastating impacts on the functionality of the transport systems of lower-income cities, and every other facet of urban life.

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