This article consists of nine chapters. The following subjects are discussed. 1- Critical situation of road traffic towns. Causes and the need of parallel development between transport planning and general land development programmes. 2- Methods and limitations of forecasting on the basis of relations between land use and traffic. 3- Distribution networks of town services, as an alternative to physical movement. Planning of the "invisible city". 4- Functions of the historic centre. 5- Forecasting of motor-car density in big cities and relative level of public transport systems. 6- The traffic problems require a planning solution at national level. 7- Possible features of long terms plans historic centres as an integrating part of town traffic plans. Increasing the present amount of movement on foot. 8- The discription of time tables. The cost of new time tables and the cost of traffic congestion. 9- The problem of traffic in historic centres cannot be divorced from that of the whole metropolitan area. Need of a universal traffic policy.
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