Currently, traveller transport in Madrid arise to the 4,5 % GNP, whether externalities are taken into account this figure achieves to the 15,5 % urban GNP, just congestion is quoted in 8,4 % in INFRAS study (Schreyer, Schneider et al., 2004). These figures explains the prominence of transport within a free market economy, therefore awareness of transport costs to different transport means shows a lot of applications. Nowadays it is recognized transport and their effects have to say too much about sustainable development policy. If we were able to value the externalities to costs, we would get a way, understood by people, to evaluate the transport scope in environment. In the last years, these ideas have lead to elaborate the transport accounts, where data can be compiled for different transport modes and specific geographical areas. Transport accounts are a basic tool to develop transport policies and evaluate their management along time. A traveller transport account in Madrid Region has already been done by TRANSyT in 2002, based in the Local Transport Survey of 1996. Currently we have elaborated other similar account, based in the Local Transport Survey of 2004. Thus we will be able to compare both accounts and know the consequences of great investments made in Madrid Region, in public transport as in private vehicle in the last years. Madrid inner density is 5.111,9 inhabitants per square kilometre against 723 of metropolitan area. We have dealt data to get transport costs in densely populated areas and in areas with low density. Being able to set up the consequences of new cities growths, far out of traditional European city model, in transport system and sustainable mobility. (Author/publisher)
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