Samenvatting
This paper deals with the question of how to reconcile urban development with traffic structure, traffic flows and transport modes. A distinction is drawn between the so-called `pan-urban' projects and those within individual residential areas. A sketch of developments and trends is given, designed to examine whether (a) the knowledge and insight attained in days gone by is being applied; (b) the urban traffic system can ever be controlled in all its facets; and (c) pan-urban concepts have a chance of success anyway. It is examined how these concepts relate to the most modern of the pan-urban concepts; the `sustainable safe' traffic and transport system. (A)