How and Why is Urban Traffic Increasing?
Refers to AQA A2 Geography
World Cities Option
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- How and why is urban traffic increasing?
- A large urban working population
- A high proportion of those working in urban areas live in rural or suburban areas.
- Make journeys via. road or rail to on from their homes every day by road or rail.
- Increasing numbers of suburb to suburb journeys.
- As public transport was designed for suburb - town centre, these journeys have to be made by car.
- Expanding public transport to keep pace with sub -urbanisation and counter - urbanisation proves expensive.
- The car viewed as the most convinient transport methods.
- A high proportion of those working in urban areas live in rural or suburban areas.
- Economic Growth
- Growth in retailing and other service areas had led more service vehicles such as supermarket lorries on urban roads.
- Freight traffic, such as delivery vans, has increased with the growth in internet shopping.
- The growth in urban incomes
- Earning in urban areas usually higher than in rural areas - these higher incomes allow more car ownership.
- Incomes have risen faster than car prices, leading to multiple car ownership in many families.
- A growth in the number of journeys
- As car ownership increases, so does the number of journeys people make in them.
- Fall in public transport use as more people own cars.
- Extra journeys due to increased car ownsership often for leisure purposes.
- A large urban working population
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