Citizen and community involvement is also a key feature for addressing the needs of citizens in transportation planning [21] and supporting social sustainability [30].
The local participatory processes emerging from the LTPs constitute a first step towards a broader involvement of citizens in transportation planning.
With regard to public involvement, Booth and Richardson [25] refer to the organizational culture as a major barrier to successfully involve citizens into transportation planning.
The country has already experimented with a range of high-tech initiatives for its citizen identification, transportation and anti-crime programs and plans to use RFID technology at other large-scale events, including the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
There are 50,000 residents in the area and 23,000 of them are senior citizens, many without transportation, so they had no medical care.
Luong Thu Thao, an urban planner and lecturer at the Hanoi University of Architecture adds that while there can be improvements to the current system, there are also some strong local government policies already in place in Hanoi, specifically the high rates of tax placed on car purchases and a reimbursement programme for citizens displaced by transportation and other planning projects.
Understanding how citizens interact with transportation system is a key to solving a variety of urban issues in general and traffic congestion in particular.
Based on previous studies [25, 52, 53], we identify three principles for successful involvement of citizens in local transportation planning: inclusivity; wide boundaries of the debate; and citizen empowerment.
Ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems originate from the need to address social problems that are getting more and more complex, such as climatic monitoring, transportation, citizens protection and security.
We can't be conscious consumers or responsible citizens if the transportation choices we make don't work the way their makers assured us they would.
