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Transportation design for sustainable cities

Metro Vancouver's case study of the future

by JARVIS I
Transportation design for sustainable cities
Published in April 2012 - Page 5

For 17 days in February 2010, people in Metro Vancouver drove their cars less, took transit more, shifted travel times, worked from home, and walked from place to place in central pedestrian areas that were easy to reach by transit. It was the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and the travel patterns of Metro Vancouverites provided a case study and model of the transportation future envisioned in Transport 2040, the region’s long-range transportation strategy. It showed

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