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for more consistent strategy making and investment, with a more effective linkage between
urban planning and transport investment, and a much greater focus on forms of transport
planning that are inclusive. Strong action in the short term is the key to achieving radical
change in the longer term.
Notes
1
There is also some useful wider literature, including Fouracre and Maunder, 1987; Bulman, 1988; Allport
et al., 1998; Ng and Schipper, 2005; Dimitriou, 2006b; Hickman et al., 2008; and Darido et al., 2009.
2
The MDGs seek to encourage development by improving the social and economic conditions of the
world's poorest countries. There are three major areas in terms of: improving human capital, improving
infrastructure, and increasing social, economic and political rights. Much of the focus is on increasing
basic standards of living. The MDGs were developed by the United Nations, with Jeffrey Sachs, and
adopted in 2000.
3
The VIBAT-Delhi study was developed by Robin Hickman, Sharad Saxena and David Banister for the
Asian Development Bank (with Jamie Leather) in 2008.
4
Indraprastha was the capital of the kingdom led by the Pandavas in the
Mahabharata
epic, one of the
two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, alongside the
Ramayana
, dating from before the third century
BC
.
5
'Total vehicles' includes passenger cars, buses, coaches, vans, lorries; but not two- or three-wheelers.
