SUSTAINABILITY OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS IN WORLD CITIES

Fig. 1 Normalised scores by sustainability dimension

Source: De Gruyter et al. (2017)

• At a world region level, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America achieve the highest levels of public transport sustainability (in that order); Western Europe, North America and Oceania have better performance on environmental and social sustainability but poorer performance on other aspects
• At a city level, Prague (Czech Republic), Dakar (Senegal) and Tokyo (Japan) have the highest levels of public transport sustainability, while Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Shizuoka (Japan) and Denver (United States) have the lowest performance
• Population and job density are positively correlated with public transport sustainability; about a third of overall public transport sustainability performance in cities is explained by land use
• Cities with publicly operated systems perform worse in terms of economic sustainability but better in terms of social sustainability; the converse is found for privately operated systems.

Research Papers

De Gruyter, C., Currie, G., Rose, G. (2017) Sustainability Measures of Urban Public Transport in Cities: A World Review and Focus on the Asia/Middle East Region. Sustainability, Vol. 9, No. 1, 43.

Currie, G. & De Gruyter, C. (2017) Exploring links between the sustainability performance of urban public transport and land use in international cities. Presented at the 2017 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR). Brisbane, Australia.

Currie, G., Truong, L.T. & De Gruyter, C. (2017) Regulatory Structures and their Impact on the Sustainability Performance of Public Transport in World Cities. Presented at the Thredbo 15 Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport. Stockholm, Sweden.