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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

10. Following America, Not Japan: Car Dependent Emerging Megacities

Authors : Pablo Guillen, Urša Komac

Published in: City Form, Economics and Culture

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

We describe the problems caused by pollution and congestion externalities in megalopolises such as Jakarta, New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur in comparison with the Japanese experience. We argue that planners in those developing economies decided to spend scarce resources in motorways and freeways rather than public transport, with dire consequences. We also find how some of those cities, many in mainland China, are now developing effective public transport networks with the potential to ameliorate their problems.

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Footnotes
1
Susilo et al. (2007).
 
2
Hidayati et al. (2019).
 
3
For comparison and according to Wikipedia, the Greater Tokyo rail system clocked almost 15 billion unlinked boardings in 2017. Statistics are available from individual operators, JR East, Tokyo Metro, Toei Subway, Tokyu Corporation and several other private railways.
 
4
And at a far larger scale than anything imagined in contemporary America. Even Dhaka, in poorest among the poor not longer than two decades ago Bangladesh, is choked by traffic and has a modern metro under construction.
 
Literature
Hidayati, I., Yamu, C., & Tan, W. (2019). The emergence of mobility inequality in greater Jakarta, Indonesia: A socio-spatial analysis of path dependencies in transport-land use policies. Sustainability, 11(18), 5115.CrossRef
Susilo, Y. O., Tjoewono, T. B., Santosa, W., Parikesit, D. (2007). A reflection of motorization and public transport in Jakarta metropolitan area. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 7, 299–314.
Metadata
Title
Following America, Not Japan: Car Dependent Emerging Megacities
Authors
Pablo Guillen
Urša Komac
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
City Form, Economics and Culture

Print ISBN: 978-981-15-5739-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-5741-5

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5741-5_10