Sustainable urban transport planning

This paper presents a problems of sustainable urban transport planning on stage formation city transport strategy. 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities and their outskirts, and by 2050 it is predicted that nearly 66% of the world’s population will live and reside in cities. In 2009, nearly 60% of the population in Poland already lived in cities, and this rate would be even higher if metropolitan areas were taken into account. The migration of a country’s population to urban or suburban areas has a significant impact on the increasing importance of the transport system within the city and its outskirts. Urban transport in a functioning urban agglomeration is an inseparable element of social life.At the same time, despite its key function, urban transport entails a number of negative effects in the form of increased environmental pollution, high noise emissions, problems related to traffic congestion, and the safety of road users. These effects are particularly severe in urban areas, but motorized urban transport also has an impact on climate change on a global scale. One of the elements minimizing the impact of urban transport on the natural environment is the Sustainable Urban Transport Planning (SUTP) program. The task of this program is to support local authorities in solving current and future problems related to the urban transport system. These activities concern local transport planning, solving problems related to communication in urban areas, and improving and coordinating activities in the sphere related to transport policy. (…)

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