Urban Transport Focus - Small and Medium Sized Cities
The policy brief analyses problems under Business As Usual (BAU) conditions:
- Smaller cities are emerging as the energy hotspots for the future
- If proper interventions are not enforced in these cities now, high energy use with its impact on emissions will aggravate the current environmental situation
- Smaller cities will face the same externalities of high vehicular growth in the coming decades, similar to the situation in megacities now And proposes solutions to it.