It’s an urban transport system, Jim, but not as we know it

A radical vision of how city transport will be provided in the future has been set out by the International Transport Forum. Peter Stonham reports on the presentation to the ITF’s annual summit of work that could re-shape the roles of transport planners, metropolitan transport authorities and transport operators

ITF report: Transition to Shared Mobility

ITF report: Transition to Shared Mobility

ITF report: Shaping the Relationship Between Public Transport and Innovative Mobility

ITF report: Shaping the Relationship Between Public Transport and Innovative Mobility

ITF report: Linking People and Places

ITF report: Linking People and Places

The vision of a new model of collective conurbation transport based on shared mobility was one of the most radical outputs from this year’s International Transport Forum Inter-Governmental Summit held in Leipzig last week with the theme of ‘The Governance of Transport’. 

The report includes detailed modelling and economic analysis of replacing most conventional bus services with shared vehicles – cars and minibus taxis – and claims that major benefits will...

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