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2. Transportation planning - Wikipedia

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   Transportation planning is the process of defining future policies, goals, investments, and spatial planning designs to prepare for future needs to move people and goods to destinations. As practiced today, it is a collaborative process that incorporates the input of many stakeholders including various government agencies, the public and ...

3. Transit-oriented development - Wikipedia

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   In urban planning, transit-oriented development ( TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport. [1] [2] It promotes a symbiotic relationship between dense, compact urban form and public transport use. [3]

4. Permeability (spatial and transport planning) - Wikipedia

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   Permeability is generally considered a positive attribute of an urban design, as it permits ease of movement and avoids severing neighbourhoods. Urban forms which lack permeability, e.g. those severed by arterial roads, or with many long culs-de-sac, are considered to discourage movement on foot and encourage longer journeys by car.

5. Road hierarchy - Wikipedia

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   A hierarchy of roads, comparing speed to access. The road hierarchy categorizes roads according to their functions and capacities. While sources differ on the exact nomenclature, the basic hierarchy comprises freeways, arterials, collectors, and local roads. Generally, the functional hierarchy can more or less correspond to the hierarchy of ...

6. Journey planner - Wikipedia

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   A journey planner, trip planner, or route planner is a specialized search engine used to find an optimal means of travelling between two or more given locations, sometimes using more than one transport mode. [1] [2] Searches may be optimized on different criteria, for example fastest, shortest, fewest changes, cheapest. [3]

7. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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   A city or location posted on a series of traffic signs along a particular stretch of road indicating destinations on that route. Controlled-access highway, motorway, or freeway. A type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated. The corduroy.