Building A New Future For Transportation

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CENTER FOR ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

CATTCC

Center for Advanced Transportation Technology and Climate Choice

Urban Growth

Currently Unsustainable…


Land-use design is specific to what type of structures accommodate its transportation.  The product of automobile centric land-use design produces structures to accommodate cars. These pictures represent the foundation of automobile centric land-use design. Automobile centric land-use design accommodates cars, people are a by-product of its land-use. The automobile is convenient and useful; however, it is totally unsustainable. Building a society upon an unsustainable foundation is problematic. 

 

  • Poisoning of the aquafer from road runoff
  • Health damage from stress related road traffic
  • Environmental damage from oil base roadbeds
  • Economic loss of currency from local circulation
  • No alternative transportation beyond automobile
  • Social isolationism from single occupancy vehicles
  • Destruction of prime farmland to sprawl development 


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