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WHY?

Questions to be answered/solved

• Do you think that increasing traffic congestion and the adverse impacts on quality of life – such as the waste of time travelling to and from to work, shops, health, education and leisure; growing air pollution; and the increasing risks for your safety, to mention the more evident consequences – are the signal that existing urban policies need to be reviewed ?
• Would you like to know the solutions applied elsewhere in Europe and to what extent they were effective; how these can be applied to your case; and to understand how to avoid further degradation of your urban environment ?
• Do you think that we may all benefit by promoting a more rational use of private cars to avoid congestion, and by increasing accessibility to workplaces, shops, health, education and entertainment with alternative transport choices (public transport, walking and cycling) and by building more compact, mixed-use and attractive places to live ?
• Are you simply a concerned citizen or do you have a more specific political and/or professional role ? Are you concerned with the way that the city administration may need to balance land use and transport plans and policies in order to make the city of tomorrow more liveable without reducing its competitiveness in the global arena ?

If the answer to any of these questions is YES, this is a reason why you should be interested to the TRANSPLUS results, as they address these questions with a scientific approach.