The Relationship Between Urban Form And Urban Transportation

The relationship between transportation and urban form could be described as both stimulating and restricting. On the one side, the transportation demands of a city are decided by the urban form; on the other side, some transportation performance indexes, such as mobility, accessibility and commuting time also could influence the urban form profoundly. Therefore, the complexity between transportation and urban form could be thought as an impetus to the development of the city.As the experiences of the cities in history, whether the harmony between the transportation and urban form is established had usually decided the continuous prosperity of the cities. Consequently, creating the adaptive urban form and transportation of themselves is so important for today's cities trying to achieve the sustainable developments.(The thesis has about 60600 characters and 56 illustrations.)...