Many car-dependent cities have major transit projects stuck in financial and economic assessment due to inadequate links between land use, transport, and funding. This has left most urban transport networks underfunded and requiring significant government support. During this widening transit funding gap, there has been an international increase in demand on transit systems, which is...

This paper explores the differences in some key transport and land use factors in twenty-five metropolitan areas in the USA, Australia, Canada and Europe as well as Singapore in the year 2005-6.