美国交通研究重点.ppt

* This is a common pattern of development in the US in the last 50 years. It takes up land, and the automobile is the only effective transport mode. * * This is a portion of San Jose, also known as Silicon Valley. The area used to be planted in plum orchards. A light rail line is in the lower right hand corner of the picture, but not very many people use it because all the buildings are more convenient for cars than for transit (since people walk from transit.) San Jose Is now beginning to turn all those parking lots into office buildings and housing sites, to create a more attractive and