Comparison of urban transportation modes for use in the developing countries

Attention has been given to Latin America as an example of developing countries. The goal was producing an understanding of the dissimilarities in the transport needs and systems between the cities of the U.S. and L.A. In the past year, the goal has not been completely reached. However, strides along the path have been accomplished. Three sections follow this brief Introduction. The first section covers the general description of the L.A. city and compares them to the cities of the U.S. The use of U.S. developed land-use models in undeveloped countries is attacked. Also, the undeveloped countries tend to use aid and loans in a disadvantageous manner. Secondly, three transport supply and cost models with fixed demand and two supply models with varied demand are presented. The group of three models were developed with the use of L.A. data whenever possible. The other two models are quite general and are used for comparisons and in order to introduce other transport characteristics. The final section concludes this project. The nature of the problems of this project are discussed and possible directions of future development in this topic are suggested.