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Infrastructure and Urban Development: the Amsterdam Orbital Motorway

In: Is Transport Infrastructure Effective?

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  • Piet Rietveld

    (Vrije Universiteit)

  • Frank Bruinsma

    (Vrije Universiteit)

Abstract

In the 1930s the first orbital motorways were planned around cities such as Berlin, Munich and London. It took a long time to complete these orbital motorways and some of them were never completed. As Hall (1990) indicates, the major reason for the planning of the European orbital motorways was not just the desire to remove traffic congestion. At that time roads were not yet very congested in Europe. Other incentives to build orbital motorways were the desire to reveal and reinforce the organic spatial structure of cities and make monumental artifacts which could serve nationalistic purposes.

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  • Piet Rietveld & Frank Bruinsma, 1998. "Infrastructure and Urban Development: the Amsterdam Orbital Motorway," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Is Transport Infrastructure Effective?, chapter 9, pages 214-242, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-72232-5_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-72232-5_9
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    1. Assel Nugmanova & Wulf-Holger Arndt & Md Aslam Hossain & Jong Ryeol Kim, 2019. "Effectiveness of Ring Roads in Reducing Traffic Congestion in Cities for Long Run: Big Almaty Ring Road Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-26, September.

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