Introducing Integrated Eco-Mobility to the New Asian Urban Model - Filling Systemic Transit Convenience Gaps. A Case in Chongqing's High-Density Jiangbei Centre

摘要

Very high densities characterizemany transforming and new urban centres in Asia and China. Allocating the right mix of uses and finding good economic models for real estate development and property ownership to achieve economic sustainability continues to be challenging in light of competing developments in all larger cities. Creating robust urban morphologies, roadway- and public space typologies that balance multiple modes of transport in the public realm effectively, while managing local preferences requires planning geniuses - or even better: intensive horizontal cooperation and coordination - to achieve compactness and livability. Serving new Asian and Chinese high density centres with transportation often becomes the single-most critical concern of planning and approving authorities. Apparently, relying heavily on individual car-ownership and road-based transportation cannot be a satisfactory solution and already results in gridlock and in an unpleasant fight for public space between buses, cars, pedestrians and others. It is not uncommon in Asia that private vehicles are given high priority, discriminating pedestrians due to an implied difference in social status and to promote a car-based economy. Intelligent solutions for eco-efficient urban mobility need to be based on public transportation and have to match or even have to go beyond the best of what we have in cities around the world today in terms of a wider range of (electric) and innovative vehicles, attractive places of interchange, finer networks of accesibility, real-time mobile mobility information systems as well as consumer-oriented operations and reasonable pricing and convenient payment systems.