Research on future urban comprehensive transportation development strategy: based on Wuhan Yangtze new town

Abstract

Taking the master planning of Wuhan Yangtze New Town as an opportunity, we propose that the traffic development of Wuhan Yangtze New Town should conform to the four basic principles of ‘regional co-ordination, multiple sharing, interaction and coordination, moderate advance’. Based on these four principles, we put forward three specific strategies which are ‘building multi-dimensional transportation network’, ‘creating seamless mobility’ and ‘TOD+ short trip’ mode. Among them, ‘building multi-dimensional transportation network’ refers to the construction of ‘air-ground-underground’ multi-dimensional transportation network. ‘Seamless mobility’ includes three basic elements of ‘shared and autonomous driving’, ‘car electrification’ and ‘mass public transit’. ‘TOD+ short trip’ mode is actually a ‘public transportation + slow traffic’ mode of travel organisation, which could help to reduce commuting traffic and promote living quality.

Keywords: Future cities; Multi-dimensional transportation; Seamless mobility; TOD+ short trip; Wuhan