GLOBAL SHIFT: MAPPING DIFFERENT APPROACHES

Abstract

This paper aims to set out a number of future transport visions (in which the long version of the scenario narratives is characteristically formed before the generic images) for the year 2035 which bring about a step change in the level of sustainable transport systems through hypothetical developing urban areas. The Avoid-Shift-Improve (A-S-I) approaches have been generated by a process of the worldwide transport planning review, previous sustainable design works, and extensive discussions with the transport planners, experts, policymakers through a worldwide comprehensive survey before computer-based software was used to create images of a range of developing urban street scenes (or archetypes) in 2020. Then, several international policymakers were provided with samples of generic illustrations in the context of A-S-I approaches. This paper provides a practical recommendation of policy actions and strategies that can be presented in many influential developing countries in the Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia and the Pacific region, which would lead to the development of future global sustainable transport systems. It finally points out that such visions need a considerable degree of consensus and radical approaches to tackling them.